Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notes on applying for credits for Areas of Study and exemption from specific requirements of the HCIMA professional qualifications . |
| 2 | I was dying of jealousy for guys whose faces were just cratered with seeping yellow pus . |
| 3 | Generations of British people have been happily walking into pubs for years and drinking alcohol that they could buy for a fraction of the price in a supermarket or off-licence . |
| 4 | All — his pride in his memory , his sense of the internationale of writers , painters , musicians , and the aristocrats , his study of form as technique ( no contours , no edges , intellectual concepts , but rounding , thrusting , as a splash of color , as Yeats described his aim in the Cantos … ) it is all a huge AESTHETICISM , ending in hate for Jews , Reds , change , the content and matter often of disaster , a loss of future , and in that a fatality as death-full as those for whom the atom bomb is Armageddon , not Apocalypse . |
| 5 | In the Medical Research Council 's trial the relative risk of dying from cancer for men receiving atenolol was 1.9 compared with placebo ( 1.2 to 2.8 ) and 1.4 ( 0.9 to 2.2 ) compared with diuretic . |
| 6 | She remembers that she had been knocking on doors for years to be given a chance to act and had been practically laughed out of town . |
| 7 | Instead , our divorce courts spend their time checking on arrangements for children , and supervising battles over custody , access , maintenance , and the matrimonial home . |
| 8 | Two years of applying to courts for arrears of maintenance have come to nothing . |
| 9 | Literary texts can be seen acting as metaphors for features the skilled ( shamanistic perhaps ? ) reader of the cultural text discerns and whose significances to the larger whole are suggestively indicated . |
| 10 | the unilateral assumption of the conduct of matters by the son must be distinguished from the son acting as agent for plaintiffs in the procuring of the signatures of his parents to the deeds . |
| 11 | First er in raising national awareness of the problems , secondly in acting as advocates for children , thirdly in piloting new and innovative methods for helping children and fourthly in acting to protect the interests of children who are the victims of disaster . |
| 12 | Her teacher had seen a small notice about a charity in Russia which was looking for hosts for children from the affected regions and had contacted a friend , originally from Russia , who helped investigate the charity . |
| 13 | The Americans were actually behind us in discovering the importance of preventive and rehabilitative services , but when they got round to looking for permanence for children in care their strategy was a combined one of permanence with natural families and permanence with new families . |
| 14 | They are looking for sponsors for kneelers to put in the church at £10 a time . |
| 15 | She is also lobbying for relief for nurseries from the uniform business rate , in the same way as educational establishments ; she wants them to be zero-rated for VAT purposes and provided with loans for safety improvements and training . |
| 16 | MPs voted by 348 votes to 123 last night in favour of legislating to allow the prosecution of alleged war criminals now living in Britain for crimes committed in Germany or German-occupied territory during the last war . |
| 17 | Two CDU politicians , in comments seen as trial balloons for a longer debate , argued at the weekend that Bonn 's laws should allow dual citizenship to extend full rights to foreigners living in Germany for decades . |
| 18 | ( Notice that " Modern Language " in titles usually means literature as well as language , and looking in bibliographies for ideas about what to read is called a LITERATURE SEARCH — " literature " in this sense means " the collection of what has been written " . ) |
| 19 | Fashion house worker Lisa Jones , 26 , admitted looking in bins for bombs , but added : ‘ If you worried all the time , you 'd go crazy . ’ |
| 20 | The Prime Minister , for example , writing in Action for Cities in 1988 argued that ‘ the Government has created a climate which supports enterprise and has set about removing obstacles in the way of inner city recovery ( HMSO , 1988a , p. 2 ) . |
| 21 | Their analysis may not go any deeper than that , but it is expressed in a way which impresses Letterman , a sort of passionate commitment to the power of the idea which he has — subversively — been advocating in Hollywood for years . |
| 22 | Table III shows the characteristics of the 186 asthmatics according to need for bronchodilators . |
| 23 | It has been tough going , finding out things about myself which were buried deep but with ministry from the leaders and looking to God for answers I believe he has healed not only my drug problem but has cleansed me from sin so that I feel clean . |
| 24 | that is if you do n't work in the FA or is employed by one of their sponsors — the news showed some guys at a large fruit company ( main sponsor ) looking at brochures for USA-trips arranged by their company … tickets will be no problems for these people . |
| 25 | Erm , firstly , we are looking at carers for employees , and we 're unlikely to come up with very much , because we have n't got much money to do it . |
| 26 | The committee is looking at ideas for mementoes of the Royal occasion not just for Her Majesty but also for the staff of Drummond House . |
| 27 | They 're looking at information for parents rather than doctors . |
| 28 | Coniferous forests , often hunting by day for mammals as large as squirrels and lemmings . |
| 29 | Forests , coniferous , deciduous and mixed , sometimes in villages and large cities , often hunting by day for mammals up to the size of a red squirrel and birds up to the size of a Hazelhen. 24 in. ( 61 cm . ) . |
| 30 | Mr. Ashworth and Mr. McGregor point also to the extravagant lengths , as they would put it , to which some of the United States decisions have gone and to the dangers of conflict between the mother and her child , with the child suing for damages for injuries allegedly caused by the negligence of the mother before the child 's birth . |