Example sentences of "for [v-ing] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Severum had previously outgrown his siblings very rapidly and had shown no hint of aggression except for eating three Halfbeaks which were temporarily transferred to his tank . |
| 2 | This view , it appears , is too simple-minded : a baby does not become a different kind of adult for being bottle-rather than breast-fed , for being weaned early rather than late , for encountering one kind of attitude rather than another at some particular time . |
| 3 | Er he said or he 's in a in a in a little trouble today for allowing two men who had sex of thirteen to go free erm a policeman told the judge that the thirteen year old was more like Mandy Smith than the proverbial school girl with pigtails but she was nevertheless thirteen and the judge said he had better not say she was no angel or the national press would have a hundred field days with him . |
| 4 | A preference for using one code rather than the other could explain differences between individual subjects in the direction of hemifield asymmetry for different tasks ( Kroll and Madden , 1978 ) . |
| 5 | INSTRUCTIONS FOR USING FIFTY MILLESIMALS |
| 6 | Discuss the different ways this could be done and give reasons for preferring one method of providing such an education . |
| 7 | But should he ever lose faith in the principles behind his asceticism , and fail to put other principles in their place , he will not find himself living in a void without grounds for preferring one apple to another . |
| 8 | Therefore , where multiple rates of return exist there would appear to be no mathematical or economic grounds for preferring one rate to another . |
| 9 | By 11 October we find local party authorities demanding from peasants the delayed payment of 425 pudy of rye for maintaining ten children on the Volga . |
| 10 | Gloucester City councillor Anthony Gilberthorpe was awarded £60,000 when he sued the Daily Mirror and the Sun for suggesting six years ago he 'd undergone an AIDS test in America . |
| 11 | Burgess got himself caught for speeding three times in the same day , caused a deliberate rumpus with his inimitable flair for trouble-making , and departed under an engineered cloud . |
| 12 | Also the division had been responsible for organizing 5 cinema meetings and a number of smaller meetings during the campaign weeks . |
| 13 | Mr Gyula Vasarhelyi , aged 62 , of Oakdene Avenue , holds the Guinness Book of Stamps record for completing 6,000 stamp designs for 121 countries . |
| 14 | Retired joiner Ted is not just a figurehead , as many presidents are he plays an active part in the running of the club and was recently honoured by the CIU and the club for completing 25 years in the post . |
| 15 | The latest bale grab is designed for handling three Heston 4600 bales . |
| 16 | And since she could not say , " About horrid Ben Braithwaite for wasting two years of Linnet 's youth and having his dreary wedding on a day when Gemma would have been better off staying in bed , " she chirruped brightly , " Everything , darlings — because this is what I want us to do . |
| 17 | Speculative efficiency implies that where f t is assumed to be the forward rate for trading two periods forward . |
| 18 | Flora had never forgiven her husband for dying ten years before , leaving her badly off . |
| 19 | In the same account period Thomas Wilson was paid for landing 587 kibbles at a similar rate ; Thomas Townson landed 649 ditto , and John Jenkinson Jnr . |
| 20 | Couturier is more convincing in his demonstration of how the increase in available textual material brought about by the invention of print led to new strategies for incorporating one text into another without overt plagiarism ( 48 ) . |
| 21 | On March 25 , 1991 , Mgr Marcel Lefebvre , the ultraconservative bishop who had been excommunicated from the Roman Catholic church in June 1988 for consecrating four followers as bishops [ see p. 36442 ] , died in Martigny , Switzerland at the age of 85 . |
| 22 | He takes the belt to them for nicking one minute , and then the next he 's sending them out to do it . |
| 23 | The organization carried out a bank robbery in Castellón on July 12 which was thought to have provided it with the means to launch a new offensive , and was held responsible for wounding two Army officers in Madrid on Dec. 13 and Valencia on Dec. 15 , for killing a police officer in Barcelona on Dec. 18 and for killing two Civil Guards in Gijón , northern Spain , on Dec. 28 . |
| 24 | That same month he was paid 3/6 per 100 for filling 471 kibbles which came to 16/5 from which 1/2 was deducted for candles , and 1/ for a spade . |
| 25 | AN heroic team of firefighters is being saluted for saving three people including a mother and baby son from their blazing home . |
| 26 | Close study of local plans will invariably produce some results and often sites , although small , have scope for replacing one dwelling with several . |
| 27 | The disk contains assembly language and ‘ C ’ language files for developing MPU-401 programs such as composers or dump/load patch programs . |
| 28 | Now there is only one justification for fitting two engines in an aircraft — to provide safety in the event of a donkey becoming a passenger . |
| 29 | Pesci , a bungling burglar in the movie and its upcoming sequel , gave up singing for acting 15 years ago . |
| 30 | Meanwhile Palace 's Eddie McGoldrick is well on the way to winning a £10,000 cash bonus for scoring seven goals this season . |