Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For by seeking to claim credit for the fact that Britain had not imposed a visa regime , Mr Wardle implicitly suggested that such measures obstruct refugees from gaining access to countries where they can seek asylum ( as indeed Amnesty believes they do ) . |
| 2 | The second session of Parliament , which began on 9 November , saw an attack on the standing army , the Commons refusing to vote supply for the additional forces that had been raised over the summer , and instead resolving to bring in a bill to reform the militia . |
| 3 | He accused the Conservatives of attempting to duck responsibility for the recession they had created . |
| 4 | I 'm not going to give money for the AOL ! |
| 5 | Three accused of attempting to murder couple for the insurance money . |
| 6 | The hijackers , who told reporters that they had been attempting to gain publicity for the pro-democracy cause in Myanma , pleaded guilty in Bangkok Criminal Court on Jan. 30 , 1990 . |
| 7 | I saw Mrs , and Mrs said they were aiming to raise money for the scanner appeal . |
| 8 | Potential Tory rebels are threatening to withhold support for the Government in a future vote on the white paper if it does not give a firm long-term guarantee for the reprieved pits . |
| 9 | They suggest that a couple should be allowed to get divorced after one year without having to attribute blame for the split . |
| 10 | The gathering force of worrying rumour about the killing in asylums of mentally sick and incurably ill patients was one factor which , especially but not solely among practising Christians , was giving rise to grave concern and threatening to alienate support for the regime In August 1941 , news of the courageous open denunciation of the ‘ euthanasia action ’ by Bishop Galen of Münster spread rapidly and seems to have persuaded Hitler to halt the killing , at least inside the Reich itself . |
| 11 | This legal bond can be severed only through a court of law , and even then the court may insist on one partner continuing to make provision for the other . |
| 12 | The present lord carried on the tradition , helping to raise money for the work with a big concert at which the Queen Mother was a special guest . |
| 13 | Personnel of the Operation Life-Line Sudan programme had on March 31 been forced by fighting to leave Bor for the second time in two weeks , although some 6,000 malnourished children were being fed from that distribution point . |
| 14 | He said the association was trying to find accommodation for the residents . |
| 15 | ‘ By resigning today he is trying to avoid responsibility for the political crisis , ’ said Mr Jiri Dienstbier , Forum spokesman . |
| 16 | He has been undergoing expensive treatment and is trying to raise cash for the Ray Kennedy Trust Fund to help sufferers of the disease . |
| 17 | finds , trying to make room for the cross , he 's tackled and tackled and it 's only a goal kick . |
| 18 | Fumaroli is also a latter day Tocquevillian , using Alexis de Tocqueville 's critique of nineteenth-century American democracy to call into question the whole project of trying to democratise culture for the masses . |
| 19 | DEC is trying to gain visibility for the 661 companies it says are converting programmes for Alpha RISC . |