Example sentences of "[be] [verb] for [verb] that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone viewing all this nonsense from another planet — as most men do — can be forgiven for assuming that women are a bunch of mixed up crazies who do n't know what they want , but do know that they want it all , both ways and with jam on the top , too . |
| 2 | You 'd be forgiven for thinking that Windows 3.1 is the biggest selling application of all time , with unit sales of around a million a month . |
| 3 | A further reason that may be advanced for insisting that police interference of whatever kind must be legally justified is that it is an understandable human reaction to respond with some indignation to an allegation or suspicion believed by its object to be unjustified . |
| 4 | His symbols were circles with different patterns inside them ; presumably circles because it had always been taken for granted that atoms were spheres . |
| 5 | The bovine TB bacterium was first isolated from a badger in June 1971 , some 20 years after farmers in Cornwall had been ridiculed for suggesting that badgers were involved in the spread of TB to cattle . |
| 6 | It is taken for granted that men do and should occupy the leadership roles and make the important decisions . |