Example sentences of "for [v-ing] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The jewellery tycoon Gerald Ratner has been banned from driving for three weeks for doing more than a hundred miles an hour on the motorway . |
| 32 | Fair enough he may have had a very good reason for doing so but I thought that that would have been a typical apack erm he did say well you know I just want to run it by him , you know , just to make sure but you , you still needed to know why he thought that his accountant had to be involved . |
| 33 | He should take responsibility for doing so or accept responsibility for his party 's vote at the next election , when Labour will be returned . |
| 34 | 1 Entertain only if you have a good reason for doing so and only if you have something of value to impart to the guest . |
| 35 | It only has two eyes but they are divided for viewing above and below the water surface . |
| 36 | The idea that it is normal to find a check in a piano action seems to be the reason for saying either that Stein used a check or that some part of his action functions as a check . |
| 37 | ‘ Forgive me for saying so but in East Prussia — Poland , I should say ! — we had our pick of game . |
| 38 | Forgive me for saying so but the lighting in here is appalling , you do n't you get headaches ? |
| 39 | Well the best thing to do when they 're to come here I mean , they might be ready for coming here before you 're off to er Southwold . |
| 40 | These are reasons for recording rather than simply performing to the class but would n't audio recording do just as well ? |
| 41 | Jim was all for going on , for expanding , for advancing rather than retreating , but Cliff was beginning to think that after all he had n't the temperament for it , he could n't stand the anxiety , he did n't enjoy the suspense : all he wanted was security , independence , freedom from worry , being his own man . |
| 42 | ‘ Do — do you condemn her too , mademoiselle , for running away as she did ? ’ |
| 43 | Some time later this ‘ incorrigible rogue ’ was taken to court for running away and leaving his wife and four children who became a charge on the parish of Felmersham . |
| 44 | If the extra oxygen taken in is not needed by the muscles for running away or fighting , the effects can be dramatic . |
| 45 | To return to the main point : we introduced surface dyslexia as the pattern of acquired dyslexia which would be expected if neurological damage had affected the lexical procedure for reading aloud and spared the non-lexical procedure . |
| 46 | For reading aloud or play-acting |
| 47 | In his Materia Medica the Greek Dioscorides listed some two hundred kinds of stone , including oxides , suggesting that friable ones be reduced to powder for taking internally and hard ones worn as amulets . |
| 48 | Some of their cousins , however , bear monstrously large , curved horns , designed for butting rather than jabbing . |
| 49 | In other words , they need to have been parented by ferrets which themselves have been used extensively for ferreting so that the inborn instincts remain strong . |
| 50 | The lesson of history is that doctrine becomes a cloak for power politics , rivalry becomes an excuse for dealing ruthlessly and the rule of fear , paranoia and suspicion means that whatsoever is not for us is against us . |
| 51 | Among the Odonata all the legs are adapted for seizing and retaining the prey and are hardly ever used for locomotory purposes , while in the Bombyliidae the slender legs are used for alighting rather than walking . |
| 52 | So blue , so bright , they made her feel mesmerised and shaky , and , hating herself for standing meekly while she was being insulted , she hardened her expression . |
| 53 | To date , it appears that no developer has been prepared to challenge the accepted policy by retaining and adapting a low-rise factory structure for housing rather than choosing demolition and redevelopment . |
| 54 | Just briefly , I have been correspondence right back erm it 's difficult to see why that land was designated for land except that it 's agricultural land and erm my point is that the gradient on a lot of the site , especially on the northern erm banks is one in five and one in seven and to build on that would erm well even said that the building would be imponderous so I mean i it just is n't a suitable site , apart from the link road , for , for housing either because the gradient there would , would be very erm difficult from a landscape point of view a there 's nothing they could do to improve the till you know the turn of the century and they are and through all the planning papers from nineteen eighty five it is said that that Hill ca n't be improved so I mean unless they do something erm dramatic , I ca n't see what they can do , I mean it just is n't a suitable site for development . |
| 55 | The Birmingham Post on 19 January this year reported that Birmingham magistrates fined Rajinder Anand £3600 for supplying more than 250 000 counterfeit audio-cassette tapes to distributors throughout the country . |
| 56 | Creditors concerned about Africa 's debt burden have generally opted for rescheduling rather than outright cancellation . |
| 57 | The announcement that British Aerospace has agreed terms for repaying more than £40m in ‘ sweeteners ’ offered by the Government to encourage it buy the Rover car company in 1988 took the wind out of BAe , which lost 4p to 321p . |
| 58 | BRITISH Aerospace has agreed terms for repaying more than £40m in ‘ sweeteners ’ offered by the Government to encourage it to buy the Rover car company in 1988 , it has been announced . |
| 59 | You are , however , dependent on snow and there is seldom enough of it in Britain — hence the preference for skiing abroad and the development of package cross-country skiing holidays . |
| 60 | Each bar has a paper sheath which is lightly scored to allow for peeling away as the Oilbar is used . |