Example sentences of "for [v-ing] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A comfortable position for writing when work needs to be undertaken at close range is in some respects more difficult to achieve than it is for reading . |
| 2 | As the 1987 Vienna OPEC conference approached , there was further talk of a price increase , although the mainstream preference was for waiting until demand stood at a level capable of sustaining one . |
| 3 | ‘ There ca n't be any excuse for overcrowding when money is available . |
| 4 | One source for considering if utilization rates are increasing ( or decreasing ) is via the comparison of hospital discharge rates based upon information from the hospital in-patient enquiry ( HIPE ) . |
| 5 | The slow business environment there was cited as a reason for closing while director Lawrence Salander felt that too much time and input was required of him and his partner in order to get the project up and running . |
| 6 | The [ draft ] FRS contains requirements for determining whether capital instruments should be accounted for as liabilities . |
| 7 | It is not a work or method study exercise , but a way of establishing and monitoring agreed measures of performance , as a basis for determining whether action needs to be taken to bring this performance within desired parameters . |
| 8 | For determining whether resource contributions of taxpayers , grantors , and service recipients intended to support activities of a given time period were sufficient to recover the cost of those activities . |
| 9 | The reduction of the concept of communication to comprehensible input , in association with the absence of any clear definition of what is meant by comprehensible or any criteria for knowing whether language has been comprehended or not , means that almost any approach to teaching can claim to have the blessing of the theory . |
| 10 | Children seldom had time for schooling since life was spent on the move . |