Example sentences of "[vb -s] for [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Perhaps the rationalisation the person devises for coping with the first loss is shattered by the second loss . |
2 | He 's a very bright man , Michael Howard , but it 's quite clear that he 's much more concerned with grabbing the headlines and finding scapegoats , than with taking action through law that will actually improve the chance , both of preventing crime and of detecting crime , and then even more so , deterring people from re-offending , and it 's most distressing to see that when research showed that a particular non-custodial method of punishment is effective in perhaps fifty or seventy or eighty percent of cases , whereas prison is not , he goes for prison , he goes for picking on squatters , he goes for picking on the defendants right to silence so that we can see more people like er , jailed when they were innocent . |
3 | This allows for repricing of the budget for November , nineteen ninety-two , to November nineteen ninety-three , and that sum is shown there as some fifty- seven thousand pounds . |
4 | The latter form handles for winding in the line and the handles can be at opposite ends , or have one central to act as a pivot , rotating in the free hand . |
5 | In the Companies Act 1981 an option was given for certain smaller companies ( provided they are not public companies ) to produce modified or shortened accounts for filing with the Registrar of Companies . |
6 | Instead , Robson settles for looking at the League table . |