Example sentences of "for [v-ing] [adv prt] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That did not happen to the drill in question , used for bringing up deep water , because the workers were foreigners , excluded from the provisions of the law . |
| 2 | It is very convenient for touching out small rust spots on anything that need reliable , safe treatment ; from garden tools , and wrought ironwork , to toys , bicycles and , of course , cars . |
| 3 | But Bakker in reply says cartilage is in fact better for absorbing shocks and for building up hydrostatic pressure . |
| 4 | 17 SUPER Mario 's left hand is known as his Block Bopper to punch his way through walls , and his right foot the Steel-toed Turtle Tromper , for stamping out deadly Koopa Turtles . |
| 5 | Western support for tearing up existing loan deals , then , held the key to Mexico 's success . |
| 6 | The local branch of the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) had criticized farmers for tearing down traditional terracing and drystone walls on hillside vineyards , in order to increase productivity and allow tractors onto the slopes . |
| 7 | For a start , you need a bricklaying trowel for spreading the mortar bed in which each course of bricks or blocks is laid , for buttering mortar on to the end of each brick before you place it , and for trimming off excess mortar afterwards . |
| 8 | They are ideal for stripping off old paint from fixed joinery such as windows and skirtings . |
| 9 | A LETTER reproves me for singling out rotten spelling in other places , notably The Guardian , and goes on to point out that this magazine is not immune . |
| 10 | Bond , 54 , the former head of a £400 million empire , spent three months on a prison farm near Perth before an Australian appeal court cleared him of concealing a £7 million fee for shoring up failed merchant bank Rothwells . |
| 11 | These were the kids ‘ educated ’ to memorise reams of context-less information in preparation for filling in multiple choice school entrance exams . |
| 12 | The knowledge of a critic is useful here for filling in relevant background information . |
| 13 | Ideally , the evening study periods should be used for reviews of the work given in lectures , and the daily " free periods " for writing up practical work . |
| 14 | IPL Systems Inc has reported a fourth quarter net loss of $960,000 after a $1m charge for writing off obsolete inventory and to cover staff cuts , against profit last time of $3.1m , on turnover off 18.7% at $11.4m ; net profit for the year to December 31 fell 67.4% at $3.0m on sales off 11.4% at $53.6m . |
| 15 | An idea I have found very useful for picking up unwanted food and rubbish from the bottom of a tank ( such as a bare bottom isolation tank etc. ) is a simple length of rigid tube about ¼″ dia and three or four inches longer than the tank depth . |
| 16 | Jimmy Knapp , general secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen , predicted that the Government 's scheme for selling off British Rail would help to guarantee the defeat of the Tories at the next election . |
| 17 | Bioremediation is being evaluated by both industry and the US-EPA as one technology for cleaning up hazardous waste sites . |
| 18 | A new tax could be levied on UK industry to pay for cleaning up contaminated land , according to proposals currently being considered by the Department of the Environment . |
| 19 | We would imagine that the wire brush is very handy for cleaning up old iron and steel . |
| 20 | In Mr Foley 's view the idea that high corporate gearing is responsible for holding back economic recovery is misleading , since companies on average were not particularly heavily indebted when the recession began and have subsequently reduced their borrowing levels . |
| 21 | For the mobile unit , it must be well built and braced to allow for moving over uneven ground , if the birds are in at the time , then the extra weight on the floor will be 204 kg for the 100 bird house and 409 kg for the 200 bird house . |
| 22 | Higher quality printers should be acquired for the heavy-duty work involved in printing out student theses in the third year , and for printing out graphic output from garden design software , which should be purchased from 1993/94 . |
| 23 | HOMELESS charity Shelter apologised yesterday for sending out mock repossession notices to 32,000 families . |
| 24 | Tines cultivator Ideal for breaking up rough dug soil and mixing in fertiliser . |
| 25 | All this is what makes the argument for breaking up Big Blue so compelling . |
| 26 | The European Community competition commissioner Karel Van Miert is endorsing proposals — bitterly contested in the more state corporatist member countries — for breaking up national telephone monopolies by 1998 to free markets for calls both within and between member states ; the idea of an interim deregulation that would affect only transborder traffic has now been abandoned ; the UK is the only Community member open to phone call competition ; Denmark will follow suit next year and the Netherlands is expected to move as well ; Van Miert wants the Community to set liberalisation priorities and a timetable by year end , including proposals for regulatory changes by the end of 1994 , with market-opening to start in 1995 . |
| 27 | For stirring the topsoil without inverting it , and for breaking down half-rotted turf and clods , a wide range of cultivators is available . |
| 28 | The last time I came up to town for the LIBF , the colleague who came with me showed a great talent for tracking down free wine . |
| 29 | There nevertheless remain some aspects of the scheme which demonstrate how difficult it seems to be for government to jettison the original ideas of the Beveridge Report ; for example , the Invalid Care Allowance ( ICA ) , which was introduced as recently as 1976 , is not payable to married women on the grounds that they are likely to be at home anyway and hence not in need of compensation for giving up paid work in order to care for a chronically sick person in their household ( Groves and Finch , 1983 ) ; the tax system ( which is not under detailed discussion here ) still assumes that all men need an additional allowance to help pay for the cost of ‘ keeping ’ a wife . |
| 30 | After the election , the PBDS party was forced to apologise to the electorate ‘ for stirring up racial hatred ’ . |