Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all then , Telecom would probably have outlaid £14m — allowing for very modest fees on the purchase — before it actually laid one brick , and that is if it got planning permission . |
| 2 | It had been raining for over three hours , and the hide Duncan lay in was filled with water . |
| 3 | Most of the sample group ( 82 per cent ) had been using for over two years before they first sought treatment . |
| 4 | I was using for about three years altogether . |
| 5 | In 1973 there were 21 sixth form colleges in England ; by 1988 there were 104 , catering for over 64,000 pupils . |
| 6 | By 1980–1 , the number of CNAA first degree courses in art and design had grown to 196 , catering for over 15,350 students , of whom the great majority were to be found in the four Dip.AD specialist areas of Fine Art , Graphic Design , Three Dimensional Design and Textile and Fashion Design . |
| 7 | In 1981–82 , courses were running in some twenty centres catering for about 800 trainees ; they attended for about 80 hours , usually on day release , and their programme consisted of training in fundamental skills in four main areas : what are called Instructional Skills ; Counselling and Caring ; Evaluation ; and Core Competencies . |
| 8 | Coalport Minerva and Mason 's Ironstone are specialist units catering for very particular types of produce and both are important to the Group 's strategy of developing its valuable brands . |
| 9 | When I was eighteen , about six months before my A levels , I stopped eating for about three months , then every now and then , about every week , I 'd binge really heavily . |
| 10 | My experience in workshops is that people are dying for more honest forms of communication . |
| 11 | But after walking for about fifty yards we came to another thinner wall of barbed wire with a gate in it . |
| 12 | After walking for about 20 minutes he saw two red pinpoints ahead of him , the tail-lights of a car . |
| 13 | After you have been walking for about ten minutes take your pulse . |
| 14 | He had been walking for almost four hours . |
| 15 | Now , after I had been walking for only seventeen days , I had almost forgotten those words . |
| 16 | An event that has been occurring for only five years before the enactment of the 1986 Act is of a more dubious standing . |
| 17 | Ozone depletion in the northern hemisphere has yet to reach the massive levels experienced over Antarctica , with holes in the ozone layer appearing for relatively short periods and over smaller areas , but this year 's figures show depletions in excess of last year 's record lows [ see ED 65/66 ] . |
| 18 | This is happening for totally different reasons . |
| 19 | Currently , organically grown wheat fetches farmers about £70 or so a ton more than conventionally grown grain , the premium more than compensating for substantially lower yields . |
| 20 | On the fourth side was the meeting chamber or auditorium which provided seating for over 1200 persons . |
| 21 | Piers Ottey , Catherine Somerville and Christopher Baker are all graduates and have each been painting for over 20 years . |
| 22 | The banks are believed to be pressing for yet another rights issue of new shares at the company . |
| 23 | After pressing for about twenty seconds you remove your hand and , as you do so , you remove the coin but take it upwards so it can not be seen , look at the forehead as if the coin is still there and start everyone counting . |
| 24 | Employees are seeking to counteract the tedium and monotony of the highly specialised work patterns in mass-production by pressing for more integrated roles , requiring a wider range of skills and operations . |
| 25 | After driving for about ten minutes Jed looked away to the right . |
| 26 | The problem was too many men applying for too few places ; in 1895 , eighty-seven men passed the required examination for the ministry although the college still had only sixty places . |
| 27 | It 's a kind of health farm and you go there to sample a simple lifestyle which Mongolians have been enduring for about 3,000 years and you are going to put up with for twenty-four hours . |
| 28 | After living for about eighty years , they become ill and miserable . |
| 29 | Interestingly , in those subjects living for fairly long periods in isolation , in whom the pattern of sleep and activity becomes irregular ( see Chapter 2 ) , meals too become erratic in their numbers and composition . |
| 30 | Glover has been training for only five years , and many a famous name has yet to come within spitting distance of the race , so the achievement was remarkable . |