Example sentences of "in [v-ing] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The services affected , described in Sch 3 , VATA 1983 are : transfers and assignments of copyright , patents , licences , trademarks and similar rights ; advertising services ; services of consultants , engineers , consulting bureaux , lawyers , accountants and other similar services ; data processing and provision of information ( but excluding from this head any services relating to land ) ; acceptance of any obligation to refrain from pursuing or exercising , in whole or part , any business activity ; banking , financial and insurance services ( including reinsurance , but not including the provision of safe deposit facilities ) ; the supply of staff ; the letting on hire of goods other than means of transport ; and the services rendered by one person to another in procuring for the other any of the above services . |
| 2 | By re-amended notice of appeal dated 30 August 1991 the defendants sought an order to set aside or vary the judge 's order or to order a retrial and sought leave to adduce fresh evidence on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the judge had erred in law in failing to take into account ( a ) the lack of a penal notice on the order which it was claimed that the appellants had breached ; and ( b ) the plaintiff 's delay of 18 months in applying for the committal order ; ( 2 ) that the judge 's decision was arrived at without regard to fresh evidence which the defendants had obtained since the hearing , part of which related to matters subsequent to the hearing and the remainder of which could not have been obtained with reasonable diligence ; which , if given , would probably have had an important influence on the result , which was credible and which should , therefore , be admitted ; ( 3 ) that , alternatively , the court should exercise its discretion to admit the fresh evidence as the liberty of the defendants was at risk ; and ( 4 ) that the sentence imposed was excessive . |
| 3 | If you did not receive the mailing and are interested in applying for the card , please write to the Development Office , External Relations Unit , . |
| 4 | The club is based seven miles west of Colchester and has good social facilities.Anyone interested in applying for the post should contact secretary Kevin Roberts on 0206 570983 after 6 pm . |
| 5 | Teaching aids must not be introduced solely in order to save time , but must make possible an increase in understanding for the learner . |
| 6 | Ferranti continued with presentations yesterday to the group of more than 10 companies believed to have expressed an interest in bidding for the company or providing it with equity capital . |
| 7 | That , of course , is why the United Kingdom Government have been in the lead in pressing for the completion of the single market and that is why , in the current negotiations , we are arguing for steps to strengthen the observance of Community law to ensure that a level playing field is included in the single market . |
| 8 | we have taken the lead in Europe in pressing for the establishment of a Europe-wide Drugs Unit , as a first step towards a creation of a ‘ Europol ’ ; |
| 9 | In lobbying for the law , the brand-name manufactures announced that their research spending exceeded $400 million a year . |
| 10 | The RIBA and ACE have been very active — along with the other construction professions — in lobbying for the exclusion of the construction industry from the scope of the general ( horizontal ) liability directive proposed by the Consumer Services Directorate of the European Commission . |
| 11 | Then he went down in this loose scrum , should n't have been there , but he was always a bit of a hero , and I put my foot in looking for the ball and there he was . |
| 12 | Once again , the Regional Arts Association will know the leading amateur companies in your area , and this should certainly help you in looking for the kind of group to which you are best suited . |
| 13 | The Justices found the offences proved on the ground that the company had no consent in writing for the establishment of such a trade . |
| 14 | Even the Kiwis were staggered by his bravery in going for the ball on the floor . |
| 15 | But if you persist in going for the burn , you can do as the Californians , and add to your kitbag a packet of small pieces of adhesive-backed plastic called Frownies . |
| 16 | Because babies are delicate and vulnerable and because the mother — for all kinds of reasons — is compelled to succeed in caring for the child , the situation has a potential for much distress on the mother 's part if anything goes wrong . |
| 17 | Everyone involved in caring for the patient has to learn some of the techniques of handling and positioning him , in order to provide continuity . |
| 18 | If , for example , to carry out a particular operation meant further long-term treatment , this must enter the equation ; as must also the comparative cost in caring for the patient without the particular treatment . |
| 19 | These make persuasive reading , not least because they espouse the principles of sustainable management set out in Caring for the Earth ( see WWF Page , November ) . |
| 20 | A project to be launched at the three-day conference aims to promote the involvement of Christians of all ages in caring for the environment . |
| 21 | We want to protect our most beautiful landscapes , conserve the abundance and variety of our wildlife and habitats , promote access and public enjoyment of the countryside , and encourage public participation in caring for the countryside . |
| 22 | The help given in the first period of Addenbrookes , when the plaintiff had her own room and was for much of the time still in a coma , was clearly signifidant , significant , not only in caring for the plaintiff 's physical needs , but in giving the support and encouragement which no doubt contributed greatly to the plaintiff 's emergence from that coma . |
| 23 | RETIRING House of Commons Speaker Bernard Weatherill is wasting no time in heading for the world of business . |
| 24 | Churchill had a great time in leading for the Opposition and made what I thought was a splendid speech — but then he usually did . |
| 25 | The most important provision in this manual is that the system of cash accounting , rather than accruals accounting , is used in accounting for the money voted to government departments by Parliament . |
| 26 | Yet before we do so , it would be as well to see just how far formal , purely linguistic rules can go in accounting for the way one sentence succeeds another . |
| 27 | Filip said that figures for all of 1992 were not clear enough to state if the workstation business was profitable in the year but in the fourth quarter , even assuming a margin of error in accounting for the workstation operations as a distinct business , the operation clearly was profitable . |
| 28 | Very little work has been done , however , in accounting for the development of an individual dramatic character in pragmatic or discourse terms . |
| 29 | More particularly , Galileo used standard perspective procedures in accounting for the foreshortening of the spots which he claimed in 1613 were on the surface of the sun . |
| 30 | As a result , writers have often resorted to ad hoc explanations of changes in the typical characteristics , or confined their explanations to changes in institutional industrial relations variables , as , for example , in accounting for the outbreak of conflict in hitherto peaceful industries . |