Example sentences of "for [adv] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 69-year-old man had won the Joslin medal for successfully taking insulin for 50 years . |
| 2 | He 's been fined three hundred pounds and banned from the dugout for a year for verbally abusing referee Sandy Roy during a recent match . |
| 3 | Neale was re-elected captain for the 1991 season last November , already equalling the record for longest serving captain . |
| 4 | A number of authors have tried to produce statistical models for numerically evaluating accessibility . |
| 5 | Exactly how much could be gained from the support of a saintly patron can best be seen by turning to the position of Gregory at Tours , in particular to the events leading up to his trial , for purportedly slandering queen Fredegund , at Berny-Rivière . |
| 6 | This is accomplished in either of two ways ; η sp can be expressed as a reduced quantity and extrapolated to according to the relation and the intercept is the limiting viscosity number [ η ] which is a characteristic parameter for the polymer in a particular solvent , k′ is a shape dependent factor called the Huggins constant and has values between 0.3 and 0.9 for randomly coiling vinyl polymers . |
| 7 | DORJE WANGDU : a 33-year-old electrician from Lhasa , he received a three-year term of ‘ re-education through labour ’ , without charge or trial , in September 1991 , for peacefully expressing support for the Dalai Lama , Tibet 's Buddhist leader-in-exile , and for possessing ‘ reactionary ’ documents . |
| 8 | Petsos received a 10-month suspended sentence for corruptly facilitating planning permission for a press complex which Koskotas had built near Athens . |
| 9 | The Killing Fields , made in 1984 , was nominated for six Academy Awards and picked up honours for best supporting actor , photography and editing . |
| 10 | Kevin Kline was awarded an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in A Fish Called Wanda . |
| 11 | Following the two multimeter add-ons described in the last two instalments of Circuit Surgery , several readers have suggested that a simple device for directly measuring capacitance would be extremely useful . |
| 12 | Erika shook her head , for once letting authority go unheeded . |
| 13 | He was tall , dark and far from handsome ; she was small , chirpy and was for ever brushing Kev 's shoulders free of scurf . |
| 14 | We are given a picture of death , the death of Pip 's real chance for ever finding contentment , and he sees that it is going to be a long , hard struggle back to finding happiness in life , it is a test of Pip 's strength of character . |
| 15 | From the enhanced provision of electronic delivery by the Document Supply Centre to a huge programme for retrospectively converting music , map and manuscript catalogues which have been created over a period of more than one hundred and fifty years , to the question of how to extend the provisions of the Copyright Act 1911 to include legal deposit of digital publications , the Library faces a formidable set of tasks arising from the electronic revolution . |
| 16 | The sequestration of SSRP proteins and of HMG 1 and 2 by bent DNA structures resulting from platinu binding , or their ability to block platinum adducts from repair , could have dire consequences for the cell , particularly for rapidly dividing cancer cells . |
| 17 | The product , targeted at Fortune 500 developers , consists of three components : the Motif-compliant CrossFrame interface builder ; the CrossScript scripting language ; and the CrossLink network services builder , a programming environment for dynamically establishing peer relationships between applications on a network through a mechanism called agents . |
| 18 | The recent report by Profesor Richard Benjamin , for example , had castigated the government for deliberately obstructing access to certain data such as the Family Expenditure Survey . |
| 19 | We must also consider the opportunity that some occupations have for deliberately restricting access to the acquisition of the skills needed to do the job , thereby keeping down their distribution amongst the population , and enabling them to claim higher rewards in the market place . |
| 20 | The programmes include Tivoli/Courier for automatically distributing software updates throughout a network from any point and Tivoli/Sentry for remotely monitoring portions of a network or the entire system . |
| 21 | In 1619 , along with other merchants of alien extraction , he was fined in Star Chamber for illegally exporting gold . |
| 22 | Three German nationals were given suspended sentences by a court in Bochum , Germany , on Sept. 21 for illegally exporting rocket engine parts to Iraq . |
| 23 | Er this is a long sort of type of er barrel used for probably importing wine . |
| 24 | The sheep industry was poised for far reaching change . |
| 25 | Moreover , it is the doctor-counsellor as much as anyone else who needs to ask these questions , for often spending time considering these aspects of ill-health might be more helpful than a prescription for drugs . |
| 26 | Michel Garretta , director of the National Blood Transfusion Centre , and his chief assistant , Jean-Pierre Allain , were each sentenced on Oct. 23 to four years in prison for knowingly distributing blood contaminated with HIV to haemophiliacs [ see p. 38978 ] . |
| 27 | Near by is a creosoting plant for preservatively treating timber , and a shed where upholstery is washed . |
| 28 | But his real secret weapon is an amazing talent for simultaneously combining slide with fretted notes . |
| 29 | Such references can be an excellent foundation for correctly writing press releases . |
| 30 | According to theoretical analysis by Crystal and Craig ( 1978 ) , PGSS offers the greatest possibilities for accurately reflecting English . |