Example sentences of "by [v-ing] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having been trained in Institutional Management I still like to keep my hand in by catering for private functions such as weddings and christenings , and I intersperse this with occasional cookery demonstrations for women 's groups in the area . |
| 2 | Planning encourages travel by catering for car-park spaces . |
| 3 | Recognising the sheer impossibility of providing an adequate number of conversion courses of the 52 week full-time mode , the UKCC has outlined a more flexible approach to the problem by allowing for appropriate course content arrived at in ways outlined by PS & D/88/05 . |
| 4 | Similar tests were devised for white-collar jobs by applying for advertised posts by letter in the name of fictitious black and white applicants , again with similar qualifications , but making clear what the applicants ' ethnic origins were . |
| 5 | Allowing schools to become independent of local councils , by applying for Grant-Maintained status if the parents involved so wish . |
| 6 | It is absolutely essential that no member pre-empts these discussions by applying for any of the schemes on offer while these negotiations continue . |
| 7 | By bidding for half rather than all of LIN there should be no need for McCaw to seek additional funding from BT since its cash resources and existing lines of credit should cover the cost . |
| 8 | Such cases could be met by adopting for civil cases a procedure similar to the Attorney-General 's reference in criminal proceedings . |
| 9 | Or let it mature , still wrapped , in a cold larder overnight , and reheat by steaming for 1 hr or so next day . |
| 10 | The only disappointment was that , at nine o'clock , the advantage gained by climbing for two days was lost in minutes , like the slow , laborious winding of a stiff spring which snaps and releases its energy in an instant . |
| 11 | Scott-Kilvert showed his affection for Greece by serving for many years on the council and executive committee of the Anglo-Hellenic League , in due course becoming honorary secretary . |
| 12 | Change repetitions by looking for new words with the same meaning in Roget 's Thesaurus . |
| 13 | However , it is possible to detect HIV infection by looking for specific antibodies . |
| 14 | You can do this directly , if the catalogue has subject divisions , or indirectly by looking for all books with a particular word in the title . |
| 15 | Attempts to make the arts accountable by submitting them to forms of assessment which properly belong elsewhere may actually make them appear wanting by looking for inappropriate forms of proof . |
| 16 | Prehistorians have rationalised this recently in the absence of documentary evidence by looking for different ‘ activity areas ’ within settlements and such concepts as food processing , craft areas , food storage areas , etc. could usefully be developed for sites in the historical period . |
| 17 | One can reconstruct the original language by looking for common words and then make a guess about where the language came from . |
| 18 | At intermediate levels , deductions may be drawn about the presence or absence of specific groups or assemblies of atoms by looking for characteristic group frequencies and intensities . |
| 19 | Within boxes , the forms were not kept in order , and so for this reason the search was carried out by inspecting the thesis titles , as well as by searching for individual ‘ D ’ numbers ( which were recorded in the Rolfe and Will lists ) . |
| 20 | Better results might have been achieved by searching for pristine copies of the original 78s . |
| 21 | Secondly , evolutionary biologists have tested their theories by searching for expected patterns of behaviour across different human cultures . |
| 22 | The NCH says parents are saving the state a fortune by caring for disabled children in their homes . |
| 23 | Even though I may be in a minority , I feel quite strongly that the job of the record companies is to issue recordings of music at prices the music loving public can afford — not to enhance that price by paying for learned disquisitions seeking to explain what ought to need no explanation . |
| 24 | He ended up by paying for most of the house himself and what had once been a modest little farmhouse jumped up several rungs of the architectural and social ladder . |
| 25 | ARCO invented an imaginative solution to that challenge and , for five successive years from 1988 , bought results by paying for leading collectors and senior museum officials to visit the fair and a city which was becoming one of the most fashionable capitals in Europe . |
| 26 | Most machines come minus a cartridge , but you do n't have to spend a fortune — Audio-Technica produce a perfectly acceptable one for £19 , although that is rock bottom : there are genuine improvements to be had by budgeting for four times that amount . |
| 27 | They too achieve their larger size ( up to 60 mm ) by growing faster than " normal " individuals , not by growing for longer . |
| 28 | Plants tend to grow big and lush on heavy soils , a feature worth enhancing by going for vigorous species . |
| 29 | Erm I 'm influenced by all kinds of things but I 'm sure I 'm not influenced by wishing for certain power or not . |
| 30 | Not only will such a division of labour approximately halve the size of the lexicon ( by accounting for different interpretations of words by a general external principle ) , it will also immeasurably simplify the logical base of semantics — the word some can be equated directly with the existential quantifier in predicate logic ( while the reading " some and not all " taken as basic leads to serious internal contradictions : see Horn , 1973 and Chapter 3 below ) . |