Example sentences of "for [v-ing] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of quitting the music business she should have learned to use it for singing rather than mouthing off at every opportunity . |
| 2 | it 's not easy to recognise solvent misusers and it 's hard for shopkeepers to know whether a young person will use a product for sniffing rather than for its legitimate purpose . |
| 3 | Metrotect , which makes plasticised materials for protecting underground and underwater pipelines , makes about 90pc of its sales overseas and has offices in Singapore , Denver and Sao Paolo , Brazil . |
| 4 | To his mind the central tenet of the game — that you will be rewarded for driving forward and making ground — has been abandoned . |
| 5 | So , as you can see , there is no need to be discouraged from growing plants for pressing even if you do only have a window box . |
| 6 | These two changes — instrumentation and electronic treatment — suggest two points immediately : that this is music created in a recording studio using quite complex equipment and recording techniques ( the Beatles had in fact just given up live performance ) ; and that it is music for listening rather than dancing . |
| 7 | Canny Ulster investors showed their preference for saving rather than spending during the recession , putting £204m into the societies ' coffers last year , compared to £175m in 1991 and just £61m in 1990 . |
| 8 | These needs should be seen as a reason for unifying rather than for dividing educational provision . |
| 9 | Louis Farrakhan , a radical American activist , attacked African leaders for living well while their people starved . |
| 10 | However section 19 permits the constable to seize anything on the premises if he has reasonable grounds for believing either that it has been obtained in consequence of the commission of an offence or that it is evidence in relation to an offence which he is investigating or any other offence . |
| 11 | To prevent the procession amounted to saying ‘ that a man may be punished for acting lawfully if he knows that his so doing may induce another man to act unlawfully — a proposition without any authority whatever to support it ’ . |
| 12 | Manners retorted that this had taken place in February and Palmerston was in no position to criticize him for acting independently as he had heard that Palmerston himself had instructed the architect to prepare designs in a different style without consulting the House . |
| 13 | ( 4 ) Hedging or speculation : A contract undertaken for hedging rather than speculative purposes is , in some respects , less regulated than a pure speculative transaction . |
| 14 | She had discovered that it was n't a proper job ( as she called it to herself ) since none of them was paid for going there or being on the rota . |
| 15 | Lord Rawdon felt no one should be arrested for owing less than £20 , as it was when George I came to the throne ; that a creditor should pay the debtor he had put in prison 4s 8d a week ; and the warden of The Fleet and the marshal of the King 's Bench Prison ( who made around £3,000 a year out of fees ) should be compensated if the rules were abolished which allowed them their fees . |
| 16 | It was a gamble between being bumped off for lying earlier or allowing him to think he was gaining no advantage by my presence in the household . |
| 17 | For researching more than one name please attach letter . |
| 18 | Nor does the fact that , so long as they consider that the affairs of the business they own are being conducted well enough on their behalf , owners do not choose to exercise their ultimate authority , provide any reason for supposing either that companies would be better managed if trade unions were implicated in management or that owners would acquiesce in the assumption , in whole or in part , of their rights by any other party — let alone by one whose essential interests are often opposed to their own . |
| 19 | Neither impatient nor inattentive , she had a positive gift for remaining still and alert , her large brown eyes fixed upon him as he reconstructed those distant events , willing him to remember and recall every incident , however minor , every remark , however trivial . |
| 20 | One of the reasons for owning rather than borrowing textbooks is that they need to be marked to get the best out of them . |
| 21 | This strategy was transferred to the successive discrimination , and for at least some of the animals allowed immediate solution of that test — an animal that had learned to turn away from white in the left arm , say , would already be equipped to solve a successive discrimination in which it was rewarded for turning left when both arms were black and right when both were white . |
| 22 | Just enough time for a reverse-charge call , and an excuse for getting away if the conversation began to get awkward . |
| 23 | I am sitting opposite the Baroness — who was acquitted in August 1989 of the murder of her ex-husband Simon Dale , and in April this year sentenced to seven years imprisonment for forging the will of her elderly aunt , Lady Illingworth , and for stealing more than £500,000 from her — in the visitors ' room at Askham Grange prison , outside York . |
| 24 | ( PREVIEW ) Another printing enhancement worthy of mention is Print-to-Fit to select the point size for printing so that the range selected fits on a page . |
| 25 | Before they left they blasted the Government for demolishing more than 400,000 jobs in the industry in three years . |
| 26 | You strengthen your body and raise your diaphragm for riding forward and raising the horse 's forehand . |
| 27 | John never forgave Lawrence for breaking away and going into competition with him . |
| 28 | . Now this one I 've realized now is actually meant for wearing outside because it 's got a bit of shaping here , see ? |
| 29 | However , the Audit Commission , a government efficiency agency , has still criticized some local authorities for spending excessively and for wasting resources , e.g. some 700m has been ‘ inefficiently ’ spent in one year on council house maintenance repairs . |
| 30 | The decree , which entered into force later in June , entitled Albanian citizens in principle to a passport for travelling abroad and re-entering the country , and made it possible for visitors to obtain entry visas at crossing points on the Albanian border . |