Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Registration figures went down when the poll tax was introduced , but — at least nationally — they staged a marked recovery in 1992 , more than compensating for the 1989 drop . |
| 2 | From about 1940 to the 1970s , in this picture , both solar and volcanic influences were acting to cool the Earth , more than compensating for the rapid buildup of carbon dioxide , even with the standard greenhouse effect numbers . |
| 3 | Overall , Mr Charkin presented a picture of a man enthralled by present opportunities and future potentialities , rather than yearning for the comfortable certainties of the recent past . |
| 4 | These are normally a lot less than paying for the whole aircraft over the same short period , but after the term of the lease the aircraft must be sold , or re-financed . |
| 5 | Providing for exceptional and individual needs may be more costly than providing for the average needs of fairly homogeneous groups of pupils . |
| 6 | The adult user , although accounting for the largest proportion of public library users , is an amorphous group not clearly definable unless the adults belong to the business community or to some temporarily associative grouping like adult education classes ( where indeed there may be some potential for formal user education ) . |
| 7 | Rather than achieving for the sheer stimulation , or intrinsic worth of the achievement , they are driven in a never-ending competition ‘ to be someone ’ . |
| 8 | He paused , as if searching for the right words . |
| 9 | You do not warm to this lady , who delivers her lines to camera as if waiting for the canned laughter . |
| 10 | ‘ Stella , ’ he called again , as if asking for the only person he needed . |
| 11 | She flushed and hesitated , as if realizing for the first time where all this was leading . |
| 12 | India supports the Kabul government , much to the annoyance of Pakistan and most western countries ; but while allowing for the mischievous nature of Mr Gandhi 's remark , they suspect that it is no more than the truth . |
| 13 | The document suggested that every school has a common aim , that of helping children ‘ to meet the basic academic and social demands of adult life ’ while allowing for the unique differences that exist between child and child . |
| 14 | I encountered an old lady of a more awkward sort while canvassing for the Tory candidate in Crosby — a by-election subsequently won for the SDP by Shirley Williams . |
| 15 | During the day a Cant Z.501 flyingboat of the 184 a Squadriglia R.M. was also lost , apparently to Malta fighters , and probably while searching for the downed German aircrew ; the crew of this aircraft were rescued near the Sicilian coast . |
| 16 | While waiting for the great day we watched nearly every match of the 1990 World Cup , particularly the progress of England and Ireland in the early rounds . |
| 17 | Multivariate proportional hazard regression was used to analyse the relation between waist-hip ratio and probability of conception per cycle while controlling for the above variables . |
| 18 | Consequently she 'd prepared for the worst while hoping for the best . |
| 19 | The opponents at Hampden in October were Rangers , against whom , while working for the other half of the Old Firm , Aitken spent many years being either revered or reviled . |
| 20 | My knowledge of chyluria progressed while working for the senior physician of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases . |
| 21 | As well as catering for the spiritual needs of the Russian settlers , monks , sometimes with lay assistants , participated in the colonial process by establishing small monastic communities which soon attracted peasants and became the focus of new communities . |
| 22 | If you are single and ambitious , then your career pattern and development will be important to you , and any prospects for promotion in the longer term are a significant factor when looking for the right opening . |
| 23 | This is also the first thing we can tell about a person when meeting for the first time . |
| 24 | Also , because of his terrible sense of direction , he would get lost when hunting for the wrong things and Endill had to spend much of his time searching for him , almost getting lost himself . |
| 25 | In the seventeenth century , people stopped writing in Latin even when writing for the learned , and various attempts were made at making up universal languages . |
| 26 | When searching for the right adjective , bear in mind that your effect on the reader will be stronger if you can create physical sensation , if you can make the reader conjure up a colour , a texture , a smell or a sound , rather than using a word like ‘ soothing ’ , or ‘ lovely ’ or ( worst of all ) ‘ evocative ’ . |
| 27 | The ability to lock the rope quickly is also very useful when searching for the next stance , or else in performing diagonal manoeuvres . |
| 28 | Long leases , on the other hand , rarely have any such clog on the right to assign , mortgage , etc , and in general ought not to ; in the event of a draft lease ( when acting for the original lessee ) you should always delete the offending provision should it occur , and always have it in mind when perusing the draft . |
| 29 | The college wants to make the sale , sanctioned by the Charity Commissioners last summer , to set up a fund for maintaining and refurbishing its Founder 's Building , as well as caring for the remaining pictures . |
| 30 | As well as paying for the new building , the Goldsmiths also increased the salaries of the Headmaster and Usher , made the School free again to the scholars , and paid the running costs . |