Example sentences of "[v-ing] in [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time ‘ taking stock ’ is occurring in preparation for the annual report to parents , priorities are being considered for next year 's Plan . |
| 2 | Appearing in court for the Corporation of Lloyd 's , Stephen Ruttle said : ‘ Mr Cameron- Webb is marginally short on merits . |
| 3 | Later on in the morning , a class of 15 and 16 year olds is painting in oils for the first time . |
| 4 | They got fed up when there was one and only a party that has been out of power and living in blinkers for the past 12 years could possibly propose returning to a naked property tax . |
| 5 | At Benjamin Rhodes , there are new paintings by Simon Edmondson ( 17 June-7 August ) , who has been living in Madrid for the last twelve months and previously showed with Nicola Jacobs . |
| 6 | Without knowing it I have been living in poverty for the past 14 years . |
| 7 | MEL is part of the Philips group , and its contender is heavily based on a radar known as Smart which another Philips company is developing in Holland for the Dutch Navy . |
| 8 | ‘ I want to feel the embrace of my fans , 100,000 of them , and I 'm waiting to face my rivals with confidence , ’ said the 25-year-old , who has been training in Sestriere for the past few weeks . |
| 9 | The Notes to Rule 9.1 expand on some of the circumstances in which persons will be deemed to be acting in concert for the purposes of Rule 9 ( see paras 8.4.5 and 8.4.6 below ) . |
| 10 | A few months ago they had a row , and Steve stormed off and went nightclubbing in London for the weekend . |
| 11 | He says even though his company as been operating in Spain for the past 10 years , it has found it difficult to establish a market there . |
| 12 | Blame for the attack was put on pro-government " death squads " operating in retaliation for the killing of government supporters by the JVP . |
| 13 | The rapist was already lying in wait for the twenty eight year old woman when she arrived home last night . |
| 14 | Morrison only completed some light running in the morning session at the army camp on a pitch which could have doubled as a minefield such were the undulations and mini-lagoons lying in wait for the unsuspecting . |
| 15 | Lying in wait for the industry are further pressures from environmental issues such as the level of nitrates in water and continuing EEC attempts to tackle the problem of its Common Agricultural Policy . |
| 16 | Armed members of the the London Metropolitan force have been pulling in drivers for the past two weeks in 20 operations . |
| 17 | Taken in by the image of yourself they present you with , wrote Harsnet , instead of waiting in patience for the beginning , instead of waiting and then beginning , though beginning , having begun , he wrote , is not everything , is far from everything . |
| 18 | Then back to England at the end of the war , waiting in Bombay for the boat , no black out this time ! |
| 19 | He was in the main street before nine o'clock and many of the shops were not yet open ; assistants were waiting in doorways for the boss to arrive with the keys . |
| 20 | This elaborate state structure , providing in principle for the greatest possible degree of local self-government , was none the less based upon the principle of democratic centralism which meant that , in the last resort , central decisions could be imposed upon levels of government below them . |
| 21 | ‘ The taxpayer here has carried on marketing activities outside Hong Kong resulting in agreements for the sale or sub-licensing of intellectual property rights also exercisable only outside the colony . |
| 22 | I am soaked , cold and not a little lacking in enthusiasm for the next try . |
| 23 | In the ‘ worst case scenario , ’ say MAFF and DoE , ‘ it is possible that most of the Anglian region would have to be declared a water protection zone as well as substantial parts of Severn Trent and other areas , accounting in total for the great bulk of the UK arable protection area . ’ |
| 24 | The World 's top three-day eventers are getting in shape for the Badminton Horse trials next month … and they chose Oxfordshire for their last-minute preparations . |
| 25 | I 'd got Nicola to say five o'clock because I knew the pool would be busy , with businessmen and secretaries dipping before heading home and a fair smattering of kids getting in practice for the school team . |
| 26 | Again , he was teaching in London for the first time although he had taught before : |
| 27 | Many of the best women tennis players from home and abroad will be competing in Swindon for the next 7 days . |
| 28 | Then they lunched , visited the extremely hard-working Swiss masseurs , and spent the remainder of the day resting in preparation for the rigours of the following morning . |
| 29 | ‘ … free People today announced what they are demanding in exchange for the release of Liam Shakespeare . |
| 30 | In Europe , Proteon 's products are showing good take-up , says Swan , to the extent that the company will start manufacturing in Scotland for the European market . |