Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no requirement for costs payable out of the bankrupt 's estate , be they the costs of the petitioning creditor or the costs of the solicitors acting for the trustee , to be taxed ( r 7.34 ) . |
| 2 | It is all too easy to find that the only properly planned meetings are the ones at which exchange of contracts and completion take place and those are meetings which are usually orchestrated by the solicitors acting for the buyer and the seller . |
| 3 | The solicitors at the end of the chain are asked to release their contract for a specified period of time to the solicitors acting for the buyer next in line . |
| 4 | While the institutions rushing for the exit have been the small British firms , the institutions entering these markets — in addition to a number of major British banks — have been the comparatively enormous foreign houses . |
| 5 | She had taken them out so that she could read the labels on the other bottles — and for super-safe keeping she had locked them in my drawer while she went through all the tablets looking for the ones she wanted . |
| 6 | It is as if academic freedom were a largely fixed commodity that was passed around among the groups contending for the right to make the key academic decisions . |
| 7 | As for why , this interrogative adverb evokes the reasons calling for an action and , like how , leaves their precise nature undefined . |
| 8 | None of the sample group were asked to name the candidates standing for the Liberal Democrats , Green Party and British National Party . |
| 9 | The inheritance of acquired characters explained these trends as a consequence of the animals specializing for a particular way of life chosen by their ancestors . |
| 10 | And then we would get the evangelists staying for a fortnight at a time , holding services every night asking people to come forward and rededicate themselves . |
| 11 | Diana 's father did n't drink and staff frantically searched through the cupboards looking for a bottle of something suitable to offer their royal guest . |
| 12 | I bought the biggest mastiffs I could find and sent the beggars screaming for the trees , at least for a while . |
| 13 | MEL at Crawley and Racal at New Malden are amongst the companies competing for the order . |
| 14 | Darlington council must decide by mid-March which of the companies bidding for the contract to repair the leisure centre will do the work . |
| 15 | Of all the participants qualifying for the title of hero at Verdun , probably none deserved it more than three of the most humble categories : the runners , the ration parties and the stretcher-bearers . |
| 16 | In order to provide ‘ permanent ’ help , many agencies operate a rota system with the carers working for a period of one or two weeks or a month , and then changing over in a planned way with another carer . |
| 17 | Three of the psychologists reporting for the defence in this case ( Olive Tunstall , Gisli Gudjonsson and Lionel Haward ) , together with Eysenck , whom the court refused to listen to , were understandably piqued by the stance taken by the court . |
| 18 | It 's not unusual — kids from the northern cities growing a racial conscience along with their back teeth , inventing something called Real America , hanging round the reservations looking for the spirits of someone 's goddamn ancestors . |
| 19 | This is the resolutions meeting for the AGM . |
| 20 | Just as she , Fru Møller , was adjusting to the need for a doctor and the possibility of a corpse at The Tamarisks , the same Miss Danziger did the rounds of the tables apologising for the shock and upset she had caused . |
| 21 | One thing concerns me though — why , at such a vital stage of the close season , are the Glens advertising for a manager ? |
| 22 | Hope keeps the characters searching for a better life . |
| 23 | There was a subdued ‘ clanging ’ from Henderson 's Shipyard at Meadowside to the left , and the passengers waiting for the ferry on the Govan side at Water Row , could see the glow of fires where the boilermakers were busy putting the finishing touches to the Anchor Line 's new flagship , the Columbia . |
| 24 | This diversification requires that the genes coding for the ‘ luxury ’ proteins in these cell types are switched on in the appropriate cell . |
| 25 | Mutants deficient in contacts between the enzyme and the positive activator map either in the genes coding for the different subunits of RNA polymerase or in the activator gene . |
| 26 | Sequencing of the genes coding for the two largest RNA polymerase subunits |
| 27 | ORF NP1450L is tightly packed between the genes coding for the attachment protein of ASFV to Vero cells ( 20 ) and DNA ligase ( 18 ) , with spacers less than 100 bp-long . |
| 28 | The exit of Jeffrey Dujon , who filled such a pivotal position as a high-class number seven batsman and wicket-keeper for 10 years , has thrown the balance of the team out of joint , as was obvious in the World Cup and in the Test against South Africa a problem likely to send the selectors searching for a ‘ keeper ’ who can contribute with the bat as well . |
| 29 | The lawyers acting for the parents tried to present themselves as friends , representatives who would speak on behalf of the parents . |
| 30 | Although there is likely to be a fairly close relationship with the lawyers acting for the client , they will probably be asked to act for the client in respect of the firm 's contract . |