Example sentences of "[noun] for [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are , indeed , impressive reasons for characterising it as such , but only the most committed proponent of this view would wish to deny that the defence effort and the scientific-technological base on which it rests can be entirely insulated from the problems we have surveyed here . |
| 2 | It was not a book that he had packed when leaving London : he had bought it a day or two earlier in Inverness , and to Boswell , years later , he gave , not unmemorably , his reasons for buying it at all : ‘ Why , Sir , if you are to have but one book with you upon a journey , let it be a book of science . |
| 3 | Some of his many poems and humorous versifications were published in 1991 and in his introduction he claimed : ‘ The reasons for presenting them at all are twofold . |
| 4 | There are also good reasons for associating it with rich clusters ( groups of several hundred galaxies ) as these seem to have a collective halo , possibly formed from the material in the original haloes of the constituent galaxies . |
| 5 | Does the Chancellor of the Exchequer recall that , in its report on the Budget , the Treasury and Civil Service Select Committee stressed that it was important that the so-called automatic stabilisers should be allowed to operate fully and that there was a case for supplementing them with discretionary increases in public expenditure ? |
| 6 | Soldiers and diplomats who knew Yugoslavia well could make its complexities sound like an excuse for doing nothing at all . |
| 7 | Partners and staff are well known in the City , w providers of due diligence work with the major capitalists , with the bankers er with with the merchant bankers and so on and of course our plans for providing us with due diligence work . |
| 8 | The British initially negotiated with the Vichy authorities and showed no enthusiasm for replacing them with Free French officials , and in the end made belated concessions to appease Free French sensibilities . |
| 9 | — Members of Framwellgate Moor and District Royal British Legion branch have used the Framwellgate Moor WMC as a meeting place for over a quarter of a century and Legion members said thank you to the club for providing them with free accommodation during that time . |
| 10 | A sense of inner worth , and the talent for reflecting it in outer forms and appearances . |
| 11 | Schlick 's murder in 1936 terminated Waismann 's employment and his opportunities for supporting himself by private teaching . |
| 12 | Her virtuosity with language is not in doubt ( and all credit to her translator for rendering it with such vitality ) . |
| 13 | He deduced that carbon had a combining power ( valency ) of four or two and a unique capacity for joining itself to other atoms of its own kind , the secret of the existence of millions of organic ( carbon ) compounds . |
| 14 | However , people 's capacity for perceiving themselves in this way is not innate ; it is acquired within a framework of established social practices which impose on them the role ( forme ) of a subject . |
| 15 | She would never forgive fitzAlan for putting her in this position , she promised herself . |
| 16 | It suggests that there has been hitherto no perceived need for local authorities to assert the right for denying which in 1891 the court was severely criticised , or to use the right which was held to exist by Browne J. , to whom no submissions were made based on article 10 , in the Bognor Regis case [ 1972 ] 2 Q.B. 169 in 1972 . |
| 17 | Other than luck — winning the football pools or coming into a legacy — there are three main possibilities for providing you with extra money : your home , work and investment skill . |
| 18 | Damn Rune for kissing her in public and making her vulnerable to this barely disguised attack . |
| 19 | It could also be explained as the product of pride — a disdain for integrating himself into any kind of partisan organization . |
| 20 | Two of these are worthy of a wider audience and thus I make no apology for including them in this month 's Surgery ! |
| 21 | Sometimes I so hated JTR for putting me in this position . |
| 22 | It makes the Chancellor the Saddam Hussein of economics for accomplishing it in such a brief period . |
| 23 | Despite her protestations , it was evident Jane Pargeter still resented David Parkin for dumping her for another woman . |
| 24 | And even Scottish law , where pension rights are taken into account on divorce , has no mechanism for transferring them from one person to another . |
| 25 | As he ran back to climb into his seat , she thanked God for blessing her with such a healthy and adorable son . |
| 26 | Apart from the above , Richard Baxter records his thankfulness to God for preserving him in several accidents . |
| 27 | So far I have discussed the example of the missile and its specific antidote without stressing the evolutionary , progressive aspect , which is , after all , the main reason for bringing it into this chapter . |
| 28 | ‘ They must have a hell of a reason for wanting us on that boat . ’ |
| 29 | However , the main reason for mentioning it in this methodological discussion is to show how subtle and fine-grained our analysis must be if we are to give an adequate account of the function of language variation in close-tie communities . |
| 30 | Our interest in these authors , and our reason for choosing them in particular , were also dictated by the fact that their writings contain abundant evidence of their psychological disorder , which they themselves often described in great detail . |