Example sentences of "for [v-ing] [pron] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | er Chairman thank you for inviting me to come erm here today , er particularly as Mrs who 's the other member of erm , affected by the lorry ban on the A ten eighty eight it 's unfortunate unable to come , erm and thank you for including me in the er consultation process that you 're planning with Norfolk County Council , er Chairman obviously I wish to support this , but just erm if I could make a couple of observations on your paper , erm firstly particular relation to the discussion we just had about Brandon , erm , I am aware Mr Chairman you 've just described the er highways people in Norfolk as very reasonable , but I think that members will see particular if they look at problems like four point one that we do have to handle er working relationships with some care and I would want to express regret while I wo n't be less impolite than that , but Norfolk have not even seen fit to put up signs erm warning of the lorry ban erm in Thetford , erm , which shows er not exactly the spirit of co-operation , I hope we 're going to be able to achieve in the consultations about Brandon and I thought |
| 2 | The National Trust is responsible for protecting one in every six miles of coastline in England , Wales and Northern Ireland . |
| 3 | Tottenham had to thank another youngster for keeping them in a position to fight back . |
| 4 | Severe overcrowding in the urban areas was usually cited as the reason for keeping them in the countryside , but there were probably underlying political motives . |
| 5 | In 1868 and 1879 the two ‘ Torrens Acts ’ made the owner of a house responsible for keeping it in a habitable condition , and gave powers of compulsion to the local authority . |
| 6 | The hypothesis that can explain bat navigation is a good candidate for explaining anything in the world of life , and if Paley 's explanation for any one of his examples was wrong we ca n't make it right by multiplying up examples . |
| 7 | As Hill ( 1983 , p. 124 ) observes , the ‘ attacks on Quangos have obscured , rather than illuminated , the serious issue of how ministerial patronage might be replaced by alternative selection procedures , and how these bodies might be made more accountable , without losing that very semi-independence which was a major reason for establishing them in the first place ’ . |
| 8 | Mr Sergei Shakhrai , a key Yeltsin adviser , said he was instigating legal proceedings against Mr Khasbulatov for insulting him in an interview . |
| 9 | Rodrigo marched into Valencia in triumph , only to learn that his old adversary Berenguer of Barcelona — who had never forgiven the Cid for capturing him in an earlier campaign — had formed an alliance with the Moorish lord of Lerida and El Cid 's own sometime ally Mostain of Saragossa . |
| 10 | It would have looked a lot worse if I had n't a proper motive for meeting you in the first place . ’ |
| 11 | Some of the prescribed topics may not at first seem particularly appealing , especially if they have not been covered in school before , but avenues can be explored for presenting them in an interesting way . |
| 12 | State any biases you would expect to find , and what measures you would suggest ( either in the planning of the enquiry or in the statistical analysis ) for remedying them in the following situations . |
| 13 | There were thus good reasons for holding dollars but not for holding them in the USA . |
| 14 | The Statute of Limitations itself does not affect the right to payment , but only affects the procedure for enforcing it in the event of dispute or refusal to pay . |
| 15 | The first guideline is very important , not only for reducing your weight now but for controlling it in the future . |
| 16 | These negative or unenthusiastic reactions from the primary Gulf states showed that the prospects for involving them in the proposed neutralised area were poor . |
| 17 | Many businessmen fear that , while Peking may stick to its open door and reform policy in name , officials responsible for implementing it in the southern provinces may lose their jobs as hardliners attempt to tighten their political grip . |
| 18 | I found myself hating them , hating myself for hating them , hating myself for wanting to say so , hating them for putting me in a position of wanting to say so . |
| 19 | Thanks for putting me in the picture , Patrick . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ For putting me in the right frame of mind for facing that rat Silvio . |
| 21 | You probably do n't remember it but there used to be a bowl and a big jug for washing you in the bedroom . |
| 22 | Er it 's very hard to keep on forgiving somebody for hurting you in the same way over and over again and in this particular example , three times and that 's it . |
| 23 | Indeed , if it is possible to talk of a Keynesian revolution in economic policy , then there is a strong case for placing it in the early 1950s rather than around 1947 . |
| 24 | Man needs to have some understanding of how this , and other atrocities , are possible as one of the major ways for avoiding them in the future . |
| 25 | Freedom of choice is no longer on the agenda , especially now that American Jews have discovered that it is easier to raise money for absorbing Soviet Jews in Israel than it is for resettling them in the US . |
| 26 | She said , ‘ More fool you for leaving it in a car park , ’ and little Apricot said , ‘ Yes , that 's right , Mum . |
| 27 | My cherished Höfner acoustic guitar recently tried to murder me for leaving it in the boot of the car on a hot sunny day . |
| 28 | But predators came in various shapes and sizes , and he was troubled by the knowledge that any rescue party from the Simonova could also include the person who was responsible for dumping him in the escape pod . |
| 29 | The British penchant for shooting themselves in the foot emerged again when officials decided that professionals who resided and worked outside Britain were ineligible to play , although they qualified by birth . |