Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nirex anticipates completing plans for the site sometime early next year , when a planning application will be lodged . |
| 2 | I am accordingly asking all planning authorities concerned to give this matter further consideration , with a view to submitting proposals for the creation of clearly defined green belts , wherever this is appropriate . |
| 3 | 0839–141414 Practical advice on choosing and using products for the home . |
| 4 | 0839–141414 Practical advice on choosing and using products for the home . |
| 5 | For 20 of the next 30 years OCA and Wings Aviation Limited flew ‘ DRD out of Red Lake , using floats for the summer and Noorduyn-designed streamlined skis during the winter . |
| 6 | Rimsky-Korsakov added an orchestral figure representing flames for the immolation of the Old Believers , and brought back the Preobazhensky March ; Shostakovich added to that a reminiscence of the Dawn music opening the opera ; and Stravinsky used the intended tune plus two more , giving the ending a much more positive and balanced view of the Old Believers as not regressive and obscurantist but charged with dignity and Christian endurance . |
| 7 | They were disputing strategies for the resistance and drinking red wine from France — sour claret , which had proved hard to sell . |
| 8 | At last December 's High Court hearing , Mr Maxwell , 36 , was held to have breached his duty as a director of BIM by signing forms for the transfer of five blocks of shares , worth about £580,000 , to Credit Suisse without obtaining an assurance the transfers had been approved by the BIM board . |
| 9 | In the meantime she 's been banned from keeping animals for the rest of her life . |
| 10 | Under s393(9) , excess charges on income arising in the final accounting period of a vendor company can be deducted as if they were trading losses for the purpose of carry-back or carry-across of losses , whereas charges on income can usually be deducted only in the accounting period in which they are paid ( though excess charges on income can be group relieved where the vendor is a member of a group of companies within s402 TA 1988 ) . |
| 11 | He offered 150 separate cuts in spending from eliminating 100,000 government jobs and freezing salaries , to ending subsidies for the rearing of mohair goats and honey bees . |
| 12 | As Birmingham abolitionists expressed it at their celebratory public breakfast in the Town Hall on 2 August 1838 , with slaves ‘ relying on their own peaceful and persevering efforts for the removal of every vestige of oppression ’ and with ‘ the continued vigilant aid of the British people , under the blessing of Divine Providence ’ they foresaw ‘ the progressive development of the glorious results of free institutions and the reconstruction on purer and better principles of the now disorganised elements of colonial society ’ . |
| 13 | The department has written to the dental schools at Liverpool , Newcastle , Birmingham and Manchester and the London Hospital to canvass their support for becoming centres for the evaluation of new dental materials . |
| 14 | When they reached the edge of the bush he switched on a torch , and as they entered the opening in the trees they left the canopy of twinkling stars for the canopy of overhead branches . |
| 15 | Procedures established to control the level of spending evolve over time to become bidding procedures for the increment . |
| 16 | The second main emphasis of Callinicos ' critique is aimed at the philosophy most frequently regarded as underpinning claims for the distinction of a postmodern culture , viz. poststructuralism . |
| 17 | There are quiet riverside nooks for meditation , wild flowers in the meadows and woodland glades , subjects galore for the artist and photographer , entrancing paths for the walker and a fine array of a score of challenging peaks for the mountaineer . |
| 18 | I have already dealt with the £420 loan , which does not even come near to compensating students for the loss of £733 in housing benefit and income support . |
| 19 | But , though statistics are objective icons for the disinterested observer — or powerfully distorting tools for the polemicist — once in a while a particular set of figures will leap from the page of some dust-dry tome to offer up an image more illuminating than all of a dozen reports like those in the bibliography relating to this chapter . |
| 20 | At any rate , Bloch 's work is exciting , with long singing lines for the solo instrument over a rich orchestral texture , well coloured by brass and percussive timpani . |
| 21 | For example , the managers in most authorities trust their clinical staff to be applying the most appropriate treatment technologies , either in their day-to-day practice , or in submitting bids for the development of clinical services . |
| 22 | She was still occasionally allowed to leave the compound under guard , on the pretext of gathering ingredients for the settlement 's pharmacopoeia . |
| 23 | Having made the point that blacks identify with each other ‘ automatically ’ , it is no surprise to learn that , when it comes to organizing aspirations for the future , blacks set their sights on blacks who have made it to , or near to , the top of their chosen occupation . |
| 24 | I raised my head from the desk and groped with unresponding fingers for the receiver . |
| 25 | Expressing thanks for the gift said , ‘ Our success is due to the close co-operation between so many people — shipping agents , hauliers , the Port Authority , to name just a few , with whom we have formed great friendships and partnerships over the years . |
| 26 | In the largest public protest seen for over a year , an estimated 10,000 demonstrators marched through central Abidjan on May 31 chanting demands for the resignation of President Felix Houphouët-Boigny . |
| 27 | Despite security risks — even though no written minutes were kept — the raid was remounted in August , with commandos replacing paras for the flank forces when two LSIs became available and as weather conditions for air-drops differ from those for seaborne landings . |
| 28 | In 1920 he was active in writing articles for the press , expounding his version of the ‘ new Imperialism ’ and airing his views on the rebellion against the British in Mesopotamia . |
| 29 | Each copy of the program carries a READ.ME file that includes information about how to contact the group , many of our committee members are actively involved in writing articles for the computer press and we also regularly take stand space at major events such as the EP Show and the Desktop Publishing exhibition . |
| 30 | I have never known anyone work like it — and I discovered today that she had been writing articles for the Clarion Cry at midnight on top of everything else she did in the house . |