Example sentences of "and [v-ing] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And reducing the amount of time spent on figures enables them to concentrate on reviewing and forecasting for the group .
2 Reportedly it is seeking fellow travellers and financing for a Chorus project lilting code named Amadeus , having already used Wolfgang and Mozart to christen other projects .
3 There were even reports of material assistance being given to protesters by local officials , such as transport to demonstrations and financing for the protesters ' co-ordinating committees .
4 ‘ I 'm on my feet a lot of the day — washing and cooking for a man keeps me busy ’
5 When the elder members of the family began to die , Mrs Thwaites did most , if not all of the baking and catering for the funerals .
6 ‘ I sometimes thought I got fobbed off , but everybody is out there campaigning and competing for the money , ’ said Ms Hinchliffe .
7 Brannen , now working in Stoke and competing for the city 's athletics club , agreed to represent his new home county in the pole vault and high jump before team manager Bill McGuirk contacted him with an invitation to be the NorthEast 's 110 metres hurdler .
8 The parents moved in couples , greeting one another with false enthusiasm and competing for the attention of the staff .
9 Let us now consider the requirements of a multiprogramming system , where we have a number of programs occupying main storage and competing for an allocation of time on the processor .
10 In replying to criticisms of his manners as a director , he has some constructive things to say about the differences between directing film and producing for the theatre .
11 Yesterday Mrs McIntyre said she had received a letter saying the matter was being looked into and apologising for the distress caused to Mrs Morrison .
12 On move 11 Short had to allow a weakening of his pawn structure and then he chose to sacrifice a pawn instead of defending an endgame and struggling for a draw .
13 You are now equipped to play the game : what is the ideal position for each of these machines allowing for you , the craftsman , to work around them and allowing for a board of a chosen dimension to go across that production set-up ?
14 Secondly , and allowing for the possibility that our global score might have detected minor increases in the mucosal neutrophils in some cases of mild active duodenitis , the number of patients with heavy neutrophilic infiltration ( severe active duodenitis ) was also greater in the absence of NSAIDs .
15 This being said , and allowing for the fact that much which was viewed as sexually deviant a generation ago is now viewed tolerantly if not taken for granted , a few words may be said about some practices or groups of practices which are generally recognised as deviant from either the normal object , the normal aim or the normal focal issues of sexuality .
16 I shall draw up a timetable , hour by hour , and allowing for the fact that he must have slept , I expect to see the spaces filled in .
17 Whether you are out of work and applying for a lot of jobs , or in employment but looking to change , there is only any point in applying for positions where you have a real chance of being successful .
18 What an extraordinary suggestion , to put forward a girl — a charity child who was not a Sister , a novice , a postulant , nor anyone with the remotest intention of becoming a nun — and raise her up above the many Sisters in the Community who were all hoping and praying for a chance of higher education … what would they feel if a girl who had already been pampered , it seemed , by the convent in Knockglen , were put in to study , over their heads ?
19 And dying for a drink.The badger falls victim to the drought .
20 Had n't she been watching the models for weeks and dying for a chance to imitate them ?
21 ‘ This is also a story of courage and compassion ’ said Owen , objecting to the fact that Inouye had called it ‘ sad and sordid ’ : ‘ caring and sharing ’ — ‘ of doing what is right , and dying for a cause ’ .
22 Because of their ill-fitting saddles and the fact that the Austrians did not follow the practice of the British cavalry of riding for an hour and walking for an hour to rest their horses , most of the animals developed sore backs .
23 Because of the extra buffers this salt does not claim to be the fastest dissolving around , and aerating for an hour after mixing may improve results .
24 As always , Swindon piled on the pressure , racing , chasing and challenging for every ball , and shooting when they had the chance .
25 ‘ No-one expected Rovers to be doing so well and challenging for the League , ’ he admitted .
26 The rain struck him across the face like a whiplash as he fought to keep the bike upright and driving for the protection of the leeward bank .
27 Involving affected groups of people in creative problem solving can be very effective , both in arriving at novel solutions and in gaining their commitment and understanding for the changes .
28 — But it is for his gift of sympathy and understanding for the teachers who worked with him which far exceeded his obligation that I shall largely remember him .
29 One therefore needs to be sure of one 's ground , exactly as for intervention in the primary disease , with documented evidence supported by others and expressed with humility and with care and understanding for the dignity of the sufferer .
30 there , there , there be fighting and shoving and pushing for the power and then it says there that it will look as though the , the north king will take all over , all over the what , what spread all over the earth and then it says gradually he will go right back to his ho go home , gradually will be stepping back , right back to his home and there 's going to be no helper for him
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