Example sentences of "in [v-ing] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My time at the Housing Corporation was eventful in bringing me for the first , but no means last , time into contact with Mrs Thatcher when , on the fall of the Heath government , she became the shadow Minister of the Environment , in succession to the job she had had as Minister of Education . |
| 2 | The seller has no difficulty in producing them for the buyer in any quantity provided he has sufficient notice to schedule production , and purchase needed materials and components . |
| 3 | We are justified in using it for a quality of material things only if the quality is like the bodily sensation . |
| 4 | Therefore we are not justified in using it for a quality of material things . |
| 5 | He has dedicated his entire career to the development of sport in Scotland and I am sure all Council members will want to join me in thanking him for the commitment he has shown over the years . ’ |
| 6 | What 's the point in saving everything for a comfortable old age if you 're suffering hardship now ? |
| 7 | At the beginning of this erm programme he admitted that we had an excellent education service in Oxfordshire , and he 's now , having taken no part in managing it for the last five years , he is now claiming that in fact it 's due to what happened before . |
| 8 | I felt like Plain Jane , and Dustin felt they had made a mistake in choosing him for the film in the first place . |
| 9 | There may in fact be some differences in these time intervals and in other pathogenetic factors between Kock pouches and pelvic pouches , but in view of the general clinical similarities between the RP syndromes in these two forms of pouch ( Table V ) , we have felt justified in combining them for the purposes of our analysis . |
| 10 | He had borrowed a car from one of his colleagues , and he felt hot , sweaty and uncertain of himself , having had to spend more time mastering the crate 's uncertain ways than in preparing himself for the meeting to come . |
| 11 | Tennis players are notoriously bad in preparing themselves for the season — and especially the ‘ off ’ season . |
| 12 | ‘ I think that certainly helped in preparing me for the jump — after all I had three years to think about it , ’ said Nigel . |
| 13 | Molloy and Carroll suggest that while Access courses equip students with whatever is necessary for the completion of a degree course they may be less successful in preparing them for the higher levels of academic performance . |