Example sentences of "for [v-ing] [noun] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it should be clear that while one or two methods may be the most important for attributing coins to a mint or dating them , almost any other consideration can be important , depending on its relevance or on the accidents of survival . |
| 2 | i A coach tour operator has been fined £800 for allowing smoking on a coach tour which had been advertised as a smoke-free holiday . |
| 3 | The theoretical reason for using Jamaican as a reference point is that , as I shall argue in Chapter 4 , the main Creole influence on " London Jamaican " ( henceforth LJ ) really is Jamaican ; the comparison is therefore the appropriate one to make . |
| 4 | He further criticised him for using information from a confidential social work report to discredit a witness . |
| 5 | A metal hook at the top end of the handle is used for recovering line from a hole and is also useful for drawing rabbits out of a hole at a distance beyond the length of a man 's arm . |
| 6 | Near Snodland was an Elizabethan house with an old cage wheel , formerly used for drawing water from a well some one hundred and twenty feet deep . |
| 7 | HOLY Week is a time when many people look around for devotional reading , and I suppose we should be grateful to the Observer for drawing attention to a ‘ dirty ’ book on sex for Catholics which has been written by the 30-year-old retiring editor of the Catholic Herald and a friend . |
| 8 | I 'm not one for imbuing phrases with a coy , knowing wink in their gait , but at the same time there is a meticulousness about these particular performances ( the Sixth is slightly better in this respect ) , which prevents the music from leaping off the page as quite it should . |
| 9 | Then there 's the student advisory service or welfare office ( names vary from college to college ) , responsible for helping students with a range of services from accommodation ( see Chapter 2 on accommodation ) and student health ( see Chapter 18 on managing stress ) to careers counselling ( see Chapter 22 on career choice and job search ) and alumni relations ( see the final chapter , So , what did you get out of college ? ) . |
| 10 | The bad reason for accepting Iran as a reformed character lies in the automatic business of letting Iran 's star rise when Iraq 's falls , and vice versa . |
| 11 | They are acceptable , for example , for gathering evidence of a candidate 's knowledge and understanding — but they would not be acceptable for providing evidence of practical skills such as driving or welding . |
| 12 | Developmental charts and checklists are an attempt to provide a simple , non-technical procedure for gathering information about a child 's language . |
| 13 | Not only did Marx and Engels require tools for seeing society in a new way , they also needed to understand under what circumstances this newly defined system produced the institutions which other social scientists had studied . |
| 14 | Moreover Vanguard specifically criticized its rivals within the National Front for seeing Gadaffi as a ‘ national revolutionary , freedom fighter and advocate of the armed people ’ . |
| 15 | The empirical study of knowledge requires a method for imputing knowledge to a particular social group in a given context which remains a contentious area . |
| 16 | This knot is great for tying baggage taps or for attaching string to a ring or post . |
| 17 | A useful item in the Velcro range is a fastening called Sew 'n' Stick which is suitable for attaching fabric to a hard surface . |
| 18 | The trees are a valuable visual aid when solving small problems by hand but ‘ pointers ’ such as P(i) are essential for handling problems of a realistic size on a computer . |
| 19 | The role of documentation and the devices for handling information in a museum context often remain hidden to visitors , who are nonetheless bombarded with information from the moment they enter any large museum or art gallery — in the form of signs indicating the way to the cafeteria , ground-plans of the premises , or , more obviously , labels and information panels associated with the gallery displays . |
| 20 | This suggests that there may be a mismatch between the rationale for protecting respondents by a short time limit and the criteria used to decide whether or not Ord. 53 must be used by the applicant . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , residents in Goddard Avenue are glad that the excavation is complete and grateful to the police for keeping disruption to a minimum . |
| 22 | Questions set by the computer , which then supplies the answer for checking purposes after a randomly set time delay , seem to have a powerful motivating effect and are but one example of the effectiveness of the computer 's simulating the random elements which the pupil experiences in everyday life and work . |
| 23 | In addition , the AppleMac 's facility for incorporating sound within a program means that this further dimension can be added to the programs ; the user could then learn to associate the sound with the symbol , or with its description . |
| 24 | The system 's 10K–450K temperature range attests to its flexibility for cooling samples in a wide range of applications . |
| 25 | The lawyer said that the reason for this was to provide justification for opening fire on a car which was not endangering anyone 's life . |
| 26 | FIVE policemen were arrested and face possible criminal charges in San Salvador for opening fire on a protest march by disabled war veterans , President Alfredo Cristiani said last night . |
| 27 | The delay was partly because of disagreements over the allocation of contracts for the construction of 36,000 apartments for returning soldiers at a cost to Germany of DM7,800 million . |
| 28 | This is a language , a world view , a form of life perhaps , wherein one of the principal reasons for according praise to a type of art is that it is able to give voice to a politics ; Bolshevism in the main case , though as Callinicos acknowledges , one of the salient points about Modernism was its ‘ ambiguity , its capacity to express a variety of different political positions ’ ; that is , when it was not engaged on its more usual ‘ flight from politics ’ ( p. 161 ) . |
| 29 | The purpose of the writer 's research ( Tweddell , 1988 ) was to examine practices in arts INSET for serving teachers at a time when the government 's intention to develop a coherent programme of INSET through GRIST was being initiated ( at Easter ) 1987 and to find out how the arts were faring in an educational climate which many observers were declaring inimical to the arts . |
| 30 | ON APRIL 26 , Qin Benli , the editor of the Shanghai-based Shijie Jingjie Dao Bao ( World Economic Herald ) was sacked for publishing notes of a forum calling for the rehabilitation of Hu Yaobang , the former disgraced Communist Party 's general secretary who died in April this year , and expressing support for the student demonstrations in Tiananmen Square . |