Example sentences of "for [v-ing] [noun pl] [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 '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 . |
| 3 | 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 ? ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The system 's 10K–450K temperature range attests to its flexibility for cooling samples in a wide range of applications . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Illustrated is the system used for securing sheets to a simple lean-to verandah roof with timber frame . |
| 12 | On Feb. 28 , 1991 , Haughey announced that " outdated " family planning laws would be changed after an appeal court increased by £100 the fine imposed in May 1990 [ see p. 37585 ] on the Irish Family Planning Association ( IFPA ) for selling condoms in a record store in Dublin . |
| 13 | Mr.J. drew the attention of the guardians to a recent book about modern English prisons : ‘ Sixteen different dinners are served every month for convicted criminals , and only four for paying patients in a hospital ’ . |
| 14 | Furthermore , by failing to appreciate its limitations , and by attempting to make case management responsible for solving problems of a quite different order in other dimensions of the reforms , we are in danger of losing all the benefits it might confer , as well as failing to learn from earlier mistakes by those who have implemented case management elsewhere . |
| 15 | In the situation of verbal interaction the observer intrudes control by means of standardized questions , perhaps standardized pre-set responses and pre-arranged classification for noting answers on a recording schedule . |
| 16 | And I think that whereas erm we would not necessarily argue with a case for providing criteria at a strategic plan at a structure plan level erm to put some flesh on what is meant and maybe clarify some of the explanatory memorandum in a more positive way , simply should ensure that the policy does not dilute , sorry that whatever changes emerge , does not dilute the mode intention of the policy . |
| 17 | Local authorities are directly responsible for providing services in a way that central government frequently avoids by the allocation of responsibility to other governmental agencies . |
| 18 | There is a butyl based Rockwell flashing tape which can be used for sealing edges of a roof ( it is also used to seal holes in roofing felt ) , and there are Rockwell angle trims and wide angles to provide attractive finishes . |
| 19 | It may give a method for allocating resources in a situation like that described , but it is quite unclear how it could be used to allocate resources in general . |
| 20 | There is much that is unsatisfactory in the current convention for allocating women to a social class , and this project , which uses the Longitudinal Study , a 1% sample of the census , aims to develop a social classification scheme for women in and out of paid work and based on full or part time paid work and domestic responsibilities . |
| 21 | A provision for sharing profits of a capital nature ( see above ) and losses , though the ratio will often be the same as at 1 ( Clauses 10.01 and 10.09 ) . |
| 22 | He got into trouble in Holland for exporting arms to a bunch of rebels in one of the new African states , and that seems to have been the end of his freight business . |
| 23 | There is uncertainty concerning the accuracy of our present method of counting visitor numbers to Edinburgh , but there are statistical procedures available for estimating numbers to a high degree of accuracy . |
| 24 | John Ambrose has adapted the cross slide on his lathe and added an indexing head for cutting flutes with a router ( above right ) |
| 25 | Care assistant Sarah Owen , 20 , claims she was unfairly dismissed by campaigner Joan Jonker for recruiting workers to a union . |
| 26 | The Department of Transport 's being criticised for starting roadworks on a busy motorway at the height of the holiday season . |
| 27 | They will also have developed a new technique for controlling reactions within a fusion reactor . |
| 28 | In Steele v. Williams , 8 Ex. 625 the plaintiff 's clerk was unlawfully charged for taking extracts from a parish register the larger fee which was chargeable in respect of certificates . |
| 29 | However , there is wide scope for creating designs with a botanical feel , and in the picture shown on the facing page , I decided to use the leaves and buds that were picked from the same plant as the main flowers , thus creating a design that was botanically correct . |
| 30 | We now consider how provision may be made for manipulating subdivisions of a word . |