Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were sitting round the newsroom table , mulling over ideas for the next day 's programme . |
| 2 | Former GB tourist Des Foy and fellow centre John Henderson are also on their way to Fartown , with Oldham picking up £10,000 for the pair . |
| 3 | ‘ They were training up people for the university , teaching me Latin . |
| 4 | Gertrude Jekyll had not been available to design the garden at The Tamarisks when Lutyens had been drawing up plans for the house , but she was shown these plans and her advice was sought . |
| 5 | LOCAL AUTHORITIES drawing up plans for the community care reforms will have to consult with the private and voluntary sector , the new Department of Health guidelines say . |
| 6 | As the Republic seems set to qualify for America , they are drawing up plans for the biggest television sports blockbuster ever . |
| 7 | In 1545 he was one of those appointed to devise new means of tackling the problem and in the 1550s he took a leading part in drawing up constitutions for the city 's new or refounded hospitals . |
| 8 | The board is now drawing up options for the government 's consideration . |
| 9 | We are still left with the dilemma that despite all the potential sophistication , the lymphocytes actually in the infection seem to be there using up energy for the sake of using up energy — like cars stuck in a traffic jam with their engines racing . |
| 10 | Alien is primarily a mood piece as well as a visual display — there are slow passages in which little happens , building up suspense for the main action scenes , the deaths of six crew members . |
| 11 | This was particularly the case after the first oil crisis when the Euro-currency market may have responded too easily to the financing needs of some countries , effectively building up problems for the future . |
| 12 | Type 3 shows that elite competition can be stable , with democratic arrangements building up support for the political system in a ‘ centripetal ’ fashion , so long as the political culture of the country is relatively homogeneous . |
| 13 | Piling up information for the sake of it can reveal a lack of understanding . |
| 14 | It became the last stop for taking on provisions for the large convoys of merchant and naval ships crossing the Atlantic . |
| 15 | There is a crucial role for partnerships in taking on responsibility for the local co-ordination of education . |
| 16 | Objections to the proposals essentially turn on the terms under which any devolution would take place , and the question of the competence and reliability of the organisations which would be taking on responsibility for the sites . |
| 17 | They have asked that we take that on , there is a report later in the agenda with detail on that , but as far as these papers are concerned that 's simply us taking over responsibility for the best part of two million pounds ' worth of spending which the health authority will refund to us by way of a section twenty eight grant . |
| 18 | Two hours ’ rest before taking up position for the attack . |
| 19 | The Famous Grouse Awards at the Café Royal , London , paid tribute to some of the greater moments in the competition , handing out awards for the most notable feats . |
| 20 | She looked at Tommaso Talvi in her mind 's eye , she adjusted her image of him to fit with her sister 's , she inventoried his features , beginning with the eyes , and redrafted them in order to see them as ‘ pretty ’ , she scanned his caffelatte pallor and his big hands , grasping the bread she had cut for him , she looked at his mouth , the purplish fullness of his lips and the strong teeth that showed when he grinned , as he had done , often , but without laughter , when the men were disagreeing about the possibilities of change , the chances of the election on returning the Socialists , of bringing about improvements for the labourers now that the franchise had at last been widened to include some people who were n't bosses , like her father , a music teacher with a sense of honour , of justice . |
| 21 | Although retiring from office this year , warden Frank Wood will be carrying on responsibility for the general overseeing of the buildings and the Church Centre . |
| 22 | The Inland Revenue say that carrying on business for the purposes of this section continues until all the debts of the business incurred in the course of trade have been paid , and that includes the liability for tax . |
| 23 | Phil toppled from a stepladder as he was putting up decorations for the big day — and a spike went right through him . |
| 24 | The English sponsors , Northern Bait Farms , are putting up £5,000 for the event and the Irish organisers have obtained sponsorship from both sides of the border . |
| 25 | The class I go to on Monday evenings erm we do warming up exercises and I 'd be quite happy if they just stayed warming up exercises for the whole hour . |
| 26 | Can I ask why it 's storing up misery for the children ? |
| 27 | The Australians were recovering again from the brink of disaster , although a ruthless reprisal raid by Portuguese against the natives who had helped the Japanese was storing up trouble for the future . |
| 28 | I did n't say that , that surrogacy was storing up trouble for the future |
| 29 | The NCC says that , ‘ unnecessary inputs of fertilisers and pesticides … can in the long run be storing up trouble for the future … ’ |
| 30 | Of course , all this is doing is storing up trouble for the subsequent financial year ; nevertheless , the financial control through the budget is effectively lost . |