Example sentences of "and [v-ing] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The super-sharp , non-clogging blades of this Draper Rasp Set are designed for fast cutting and shaping for all sorts of materials . |
| 2 | All the accountants in the case were said to be acting as experts and not as arbitrators , and the determination was to be final and binding for all purposes . |
| 3 | First , that we have no intention of abandoning public ownership and accepting for all time the present frontier of the public sector . |
| 4 | Child-bearing and cooking for twenty years … she must have been worn out before she died a comparatively young woman . |
| 5 | These include involving relatively large numbers of local people in active neighbourhood roles and catering for disadvantaged groups such as the unemployed and individuals unable to obtain credit from conventional sources . |
| 6 | Leave the haggling over the price to your agent and take his advice on the final choice of buyer , who should be well advanced in his own sale ; but do not be in any hurry to settle the matter without at least sleeping on it and allowing for second thoughts all round . |
| 7 | On the economic side it was believed that customs union , by creating healthy competition and allowing for large-scale production , would have a dynamic effect , leading to higher growth and better living standards . |
| 8 | By and large , and allowing for spoiling operations at key points in the evening , programmes are arranged within time-slots to avoid outright competition for the same demographic group or taste constituency . |
| 9 | With U.S. solo rates for C152s ranging from £19.40–£28.50 per hour , and allowing for higher unit overheads , this would seem to justify UK rates of , say , £41–£52 per hour ex-VAT , or £48–£61 per hour including VAT . |
| 10 | assuming that each item comprised in the Stock and work in progress could be sold in the ordinary course of business and allowing for estimated costs required to complete the items and for estimated selling costs on that assumption ; and |
| 11 | Also on Oct. 15 the Sejm approved legislation regulating television and broadcasting and allowing for commercial stations . |
| 12 | In practice this sequence would need to be expanded to include performing any specified address modification , and checking for pending interrupts before accessing the next instruction . |
| 13 | These include content review , vocabulary explanations , pictorial support and checking for cultural assumptions . |
| 14 | She looked across at him as if giving him a final appraisal and checking for further clues in his face , in his clothes . |
| 15 | The description of Jemmy Lirriper 's model railway is a humorous epitome of the early history of the railways , with their accidents , the way in which the public was treated by the various interests , parliamentary and private , early experiments in signalling , ‘ mushroom ’ railway undertakings , worthless railway shares during the mania of the 1840s , starting trains behind time , and surveying for new lines ; summarized as ‘ everything upside down by Act of Parliament ’ . |
| 16 | had dropped by 35% , increasing unemployment and ending for many farmers a link with the land which stretched back many generations . |
| 17 | This provides their marriage with a foundation of love and understanding for each other . |
| 18 | The local Trades Councils were nonetheless able to organise quite effectively around demands for city improvements and municipalisation of utilities , campaigned against excessive salaries for local bureaucrats , and had an important role in discussing and pushing for parliamentary reform . |
| 19 | Suddenly Clare 's baby was wearing jeans and a navy nylon anorak , and howling for tough boots like the village boys ' . |
| 20 | By making do and searching for essential materials — in a war-torn country — a production unit was created in the University Pathology laboratory and enough crude penicillin was extracted for further essential laboratory experiments and to treat several patients in the Radcliffe Infirmary half a mile away . |
| 21 | Ski equipment importers had big stocks of last year 's skis and boots still on their hands and ski shops were desperately running sales and searching for other sports to make up for the fact that no one was buying skigear . |
| 22 | It 's an invigorating concept because it involves going out and searching for new stories , new voices , new views , the articulate in the community as well as those who have no voice . |
| 23 | That will prepare him for his duties which will range from tracking people making off from crimes , public order incidents and searching for missing people and property . |
| 24 | Without records , investigators are interviewing workers and searching for physical clues to what happened . |
| 25 | Only then did the American boy notice his extraordinarily long curling fingernails , the mark of a high-ranking courtier that would have made a Western-style handshake awkward and discomfiting for both parties . |
| 26 | Eighteen days after discharge from hospital he was readmitted as an emergency complaining of epigastric pain and vomiting for 24 hours . |
| 27 | Simply noting how often node names occur and looking for repeating patterns has been useful . |
| 28 | This is often achieved by creating heteroduplexes between the two alleles and looking for modified properties in : ( a ) chemical cleavage reactions ; ( b ) ribonuclease digestion ( one fragment is RNA ) ; ( c ) denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis ; ( d ) single strand conformational polymorphism ; ( e ) reaction with carbodiimide ; or ( f ) automated total sequencing of both fragments . |
| 29 | It 's a complete package for heavier runner ( 12 stone and over ) with a high weekly mileage ( over 30 ) and looking for good conditioning and stability . |
| 30 | The YHA would encourage any disabled people keen on exploring the countryside and looking for suitable budget accommodation to get in touch with the YHA . |