Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not obvious how this can be guaranteed by bureaus competing for business in quasi-market conditions . |
| 2 | AMERICAN born Lisa Price , now living in Llanidloes , has been appointed sales manager for Radio Maldwyn , and is successfully canvassing for advertisers in time for the independent local radio station 's launch on July 1 on 756kHz medium wave . |
| 3 | As I listened to him fumbling for words of explanation , I wished he could have said boldly that what was thought to be so heinous today was not thought to be so then , but that looking back now , he deeply regretted what had happened . |
| 4 | Reports indicated that it included strong guarantees of fundamental human rights , but that a number of clauses gave rise to heated debate , including proposed provisions allowing for detention without trial and for the postponement of local elections for five years . |
| 5 | The trench will need to be around 500mm wide and 600 to 700mm deep — allowing for 100mm of bedding material |
| 6 | A communiqué issued on July 4 at the end of a five-day meeting of the central committee of the ruling Parti congolais du travail ( PCT ) announced agreement on wide-ranging political reforms , specifically ( i ) broadening membership of the party ; ( ii ) abandoning Marxism-Leninism as the ideology of the state ; ( iii ) separating the functions of party and state ; ( iv ) ending the one-party system ; and ( v ) strengthening existing mechanisms allowing for freedom of expression , of the press , and of association . |
| 7 | The disadvantage ( occasionally overwhelming ) is the capital cost , even allowing for relief in respect of interest charges and capital allowances for new buildings and other improvements . |
| 8 | Taken together these two relationships will improve on the current single relationship by allowing for shifts in consumer spending between commodities with different amounts of value added . |
| 9 | Allowing for stations under construction but yet to be commissioned , the board needs no new plant to be in place until 1997 in this scenario for energy growth . |
| 10 | That programme included the development of more accurate telescopes , together with auxiliary theories required for their use in astronomy such as those providing adequate means for allowing for refraction of light in the earth 's atmosphere . |
| 11 | Held , allowing the appeal , that the retraction by a witness in extradition proceedings of evidence previously given in the requesting state did not in itself discredit that evidence and , unless it was worthless , the magistrate was entitled to act upon it in deciding whether there was sufficient evidence to justify an order for committal ; that , equally , a witness 's evidence was not to be automatically discredited by virtue of that witness having been an alleged accomplice of the accused ; and that the magistrate had given proper consideration to the retraction of P. 's evidence and to his being an alleged accomplice when deciding if there was sufficient evidence to justify the applicant 's committal ; that , further , since the provision in article 1 of the Treaty allowing for extradition in respect of offences ‘ committed within the territory of the requesting party ’ having been extended by article 3(2) to cover participation in extradition offences punishable by the laws of both states , the lack of evidence of the applicant 's presence in Sweden at the relevant time did not take the offences outside the ambit of the Treaty ; that under Schedule 1 to the Act of 1989 the magistrate was concerned only with committal proceedings under English procedure in relation to the English crimes specified in the order to proceed and not with the jurisdiction of the Swedish court ; and that , accordingly , the magistrate had been entitled to commit the applicant ( post , pp. 846D–F , 850F — 851A , E — 852C , 853A ) . |
| 12 | Gristy had been trolling for mackerel since dawn , and had had one of his best catches ever . |
| 13 | Gunn still rooting for Ferguson in title race Myles Palmer reveals why the Norwich goalkeeper makes Manchester United his second choice |
| 14 | One sometimes gets the impression that IBM Corp is more solicitous over the needs of its Stamford , Connecticut-based IBM Credit Corp subsidiary than it is over its own , and yesterday , in the wake of the parent 's big $285m loss , IBM Credit was able to announce that profits actually rose 0.3% at $58.3m ; the return on average equity was 20.2% , compared with 21.3% in the first quarter of 1992 and in the first three months of 1993 , IBM Credit originated financing for $1,700m of equipment , software and services for IBM 's customers and distribution channels , down 22% on the figure for the first quarter 1992 — financing for end users decreased by 45% to $600m while financing for distribution channels decreased by 1% to $1,100 , the company noted . |
| 15 | It should be emphasized that private markets have remained the main source of financing for countries with balance of payments problems . |
| 16 | ( If you 're in this category , turn to our recipes for sponge pudding and porridge in Cooking for comfort on page 168 ) . |
| 17 | The master and the pupil had moved apart intellectually — Hoskyns willing to be more and more obscure in his wrestlings with truth , Ramsey struggling for clarity of thinking . |
| 18 | You 're speaking as a supporter whose team has suddenly came good after years of mediocrity , not one whose team is struggling after years of success . |
| 19 | We , we felt at the end of the seventies that there was no question that the eighties was going to be a decade of increasing food shortages , and widespread famine , that is , people literally dying for want of food . |
| 20 | Fighting continues in many parts , and large numbers of people , especially children , are dying through lack of food and water . |
| 21 | The second is the peak experience of ecstasy , which is not a habitual state but rather rare at first , occurring between periods of calm and emptiness and dryness . |
| 22 | Although this activity has traditionally been based in the UK , Spain and Germany are now taking the plunge as , Bonelli said , an increasing number of companies and government departments are outsourcing as part of rationalisation or downsizing projects . |
| 23 | The result has been a policy see-saw , with governments alternating between periods of centralisation , the better to gain control , followed by a decentralising reaction against the rigidities which are caused as a consequence . |
| 24 | Huddled together in the barns of the cortijo and fed on doles garlic soup when they were employed , half starved at home the slack seasons that are the concomitant of extensive monocultures , the Andalusian braceros were a primitive revolutionary class , unique in Europe , alternating between waves of exaltation and fatalistic ‘ Moorish ’ resignation to misery . |
| 25 | His solicitor , Miss Ranj Matharu of Doberman 's , confirmed yesterday that Mr Gooch was pressing for damages for slander . |
| 26 | But Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown , who has been pressing for CUTS in interest rates , said the rise was ‘ disastrous . ’ |
| 27 | The club is pressing for recognition of decompression sickness as an NHS liability . |
| 28 | They would be charged with specific tasks , such as monitoring discrimination , checking for ageism in job advertisements , creating a wider range of opportunities for older workers . |
| 29 | But she put an involuntary hand to her belly , as if checking for signs of life . |
| 30 | When Samuelson and Solow wrote of trading off inflation against unemployment , what they were implicitly postulating was a policy makers ' social welfare function , , from which could be derived social indifference curves . |