Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun pl] for [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He considered the biographer had entirely misunderstood the period and wanted to know my reasons for doing the book and my qualifications for attempting it . |
| 2 | This climate has made me conservative and changed my plans for growing the business . ’ |
| 3 | In addition to these data requirements , such users are also interested in developing their capabilities for modelling the changing relationships between the supply and demand for infrastructure in the context of both public and private sector decision-making . |
| 4 | The Member who wrote to express his disagreement invited Mark to the House to discuss his reasons for taking the opposite viewpoint . |
| 5 | They released their suggestions for revising the car tax less than an hour before Mr Lamont abolished it completely . |
| 6 | So it was that in indicating my reasons for preferring the West Country for my motoring , instead of leaving it at mentioning several of the alluring details as conveyed by Mrs Symons 's volume , I made the error of declaring that a former housekeeper of Darlington Hall was resident in that region . |
| 7 | As this is the speech in which we see Cassius 's motives for killing Caesar , the other one I am looking at is Brutus 's soliloquy at the beginning of Act II scene I , giving his reasons for joining the conspiracy . |
| 8 | Er , yes , well , I 'd , I 'd , er , I 'd like to make two proposals , first of all that we formally congratulate our officers for leading the team that er , put together this successful bid , erm , but I 'd also like to say something about these concerns about the boundaries because it 's Oswestry again , amongst mainly the sort of north of the county around Oswestry , which like with the rural development area , could be left out , and , of course , economic development does n't stop at a parish boundary people cross it , it 's part of their economic activity and erm , I know that some of the sort of proposed projects put together for the use of this five B money , er , around the Oswestry area , are extremely desirable projects , er , and are achievable projects , and it would be a tragedy if er , if they were , if , if we failed to achieve them because of er , a kind of a bureaucratic dotted line which say you ca n't have the money because you 're the wrong side of the line . |
| 9 | One could scarcely blame her parents for disliking the connection . ’ |
| 10 | As he says to one of their tools : When Buckingham presents his credentials for deceiving the London citizens it is in the same theatrical-Machiavellian terms as Richard : But Buckingham himself is deceived , as we realized long ago in the flurry of insincere praise that Richard heaped upon him : Buckingham should have known that such effusiveness from a hypocrite can only bode ill . |
| 11 | By early 1937 Waismann completed Logik , Sprache , Philosophie , but the Anschluss and later the invasion of Holland frustrated his plans for publishing the German text . |
| 12 | Polybius gives his reasons for reporting the figures : " so that it may appear from actual facts what a great power it was that Hannibal ventured to attack , and how mighty was that empire boldly confronting which he came so near his purpose as to bring great disasters on Rome " ( 2.24.1 ) . |
| 13 | YOUR profile writer rebukes our politicians for neglecting the people 's wishes in the matter of hanging . |
| 14 | And , from 1911 to 1919 , it secured its position as the women artists ' association in Germany , it got funding from the state , became fully accepted as an association , and continued its activities for furthering the professionalism of women . |
| 15 | ’ The entitlement to recover their expenses for doing the work derived , at the relevant time , from section 10(3) of the Act which provided , so far as is relevant : |
| 16 | It made no fucking sense at all , but Plummer had his reasons for believing the information . |
| 17 | That civilised human beings can be responsible for acts of enormous wickedness does not necessarily invalidate our arguments for placing the study of literature at the centre of the National Curriculum . |
| 18 | In a letter to Greenpeace acid rain campaigner Andy Tickle , D. Aspinwall of the Air Quality Division in the Department of the Environment wrote on 20 March 1990 : ‘ You suggest that the Government has changed its plans for implementing the large combustion plants Directive . |
| 19 | His own party has its doubts ; congressional Democrats may not accept his plans for cutting the deficit . |