Example sentences of "to [v-ing] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He slams the company 's parking proposals as ‘ wholly inadequate ’ to catering for the extra visitors . |
| 2 | Neither the programme of resettlement in Siberia , nor peasant purchases of noble land came close to compensating for the continued steep rise in the rural population in these regions . |
| 3 | Professor Max Beloff , Principal of the College , wrote in June welcoming assurances that there were no legal impediments to applying for the ‘ accreditation ’ of courses , and in November the CNAA considered that the College had agreed various conditions , and the Council approved a statement of principles to be communicated to Buckingham . |
| 4 | She teaches at Sleaford division of the Girls ' Brigade and also at her local Sunday school ; Phyl McMillan , of London , for her contribution to swimming for the disabled and for the over-50s , for whom she and her husband formed a club . |
| 5 | ‘ Let's stick to acting for the moment , ’ he drawled . |
| 6 | British customers have got used to looking for the date stamp on goods so that they can identify the ‘ life ’ of a product . |
| 7 | You would become accustomed to looking for the ambiguous and the turgid , to cutting the text down to its basic message . |
| 8 | THE IDEA of preparing a budget for the building of a house is a daunting thought , especially to someone who is more used to budgeting for the family holiday . |
| 9 | As we have already seen , a boy might not have got beyond typesetting at an equivalent stage either , nor did he automatically get much further anyway ; but the girls were almost all set to handsetting for the firm once they were competent at it . |
| 10 | It may be true , as some suggest , that working-class budgets would not stretch to paying for the regular use of new birth-control methods but old , tried and cheap techniques might still be used . |
| 11 | An additional complication comes from the fact that Congress has never committed itself to paying for the entire SSC . |
| 12 | Only Japan , of the major exporters , remained virtually impervious to import penetration — all the phenomenal growth of manufactured exports being devoted to paying for the soaring import bill for materials ( chapter 12 ) |
| 13 | In the space of a few weeks they went from favouring broadly no change in taxation ( which is what the chancellor gave them ) to yearning for the rod — in one case a tax rise of £5 billion-10 billion . |
| 14 | My hon. Friend the Member for Norfolk , North ( Mr. Howell ) spoke recently on the radio about his idea of paying , say , £100 a week to people joining a community task force , enabling them to obtain work experience and contribute to society , which does not simply mean filling in holes in the road but involves going in for a range of useful activities , from working on environmental improvements to caring for the vulnerable in society . |
| 15 | Mr Gummer said : ‘ The proposals complement the range of environmental incentives already available to farmers and reflect the Government 's continuing commitment to caring for the countryside and to integrating environmental objectives into agricultural policy . ’ |
| 16 | It 's all part of Wimpey 's commitment to caring for the environment . |
| 17 | The massive exodus of the rural populace to towns in Spain or abroad , which began in earnest towards the end of the 1950s , bore witness to the priority given , in the Francoist scale of values , to preserving the patrimony of the strong , rather than to caring for the welfare of the weak . |
| 18 | He worked in an environment dedicated to caring for the homeless . |
| 19 | But , Alfa Romeo returned to racing for the first World Championship in 1950 , he was invited to join their team and he finished second in the inaugural championship , having won the Monaco , Belgian and French Grands Prix . |
| 20 | Although section 25 , as re-enacted , no longer required the court to attempt to place the parties in the financial position they would have been in had the marriage not broken down , it did not , in her Ladyship 's judgment , circumscribe the court 's discretion so as to limit it to providing for the wife to become self-sufficient . |
| 21 | Joyce was committed to providing for the two daughters of his first marriage , to whom he was a conscientious father , as well as supporting his second wife . |
| 22 | There are two approaches which can be adopted to charging for the service : |
| 23 | June Gill 's Tiny Tot Dance Class in Sheffield is an introduction to dancing for the 3–5s . |
| 24 | ‘ Maybe I owe my stature to reaching for the stars , then . ’ |
| 25 | In addition to playing for the clubs in league competitions she also enjoys pairs and triples games with fellow bowlers . |
| 26 | Including such local luminaries as Marina Van Rooy ( left ) , singer of the sadly overlooked dance single ‘ Sly One ’ , DJ Mike Pickering , graphics star Grand Central Design , novelist Trevor Miller and ( if he ever gets round to posing for the cameras ) our very own correspondent John McCready , ‘ Faces North West ’ is an exhibition by Liverpool-based photographers Mark McNulty and Solon Papadopoulos . |
| 27 | And provision by the welfare state expanded until the 1970s with benefits increasing in real value , access to higher education and health care expanding , and rights to housing for the homeless being guaranteed by law for priority groups . |
| 28 | The Act formally removed the limitation confining local authority provision to housing for the ‘ working classes ’ . |
| 29 | Er it 's been suggested by Mr from the H B F that as I understand his suggestion , that a lower provision of housing land in some way affects affordability or affects the er access to housing for the lower se lower ends of the lower income households . |
| 30 | But that causeway had had deep holes dug in it by the defenders these last days , and the intervening stretches strewn with caltrops , four-pronged iron spikes such as Bruce had used with such effect at Bannockburn , and which the many smiths of Berwick had been set to forging for the last weeks . |