Example sentences of "for [verb] [pron] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why do people think that inserting a candle into something they have no further use for renders it an indispensable household utensil instead of litter they should be taking home in their rucksacks ? |
| 2 | But what , precisely , is the theoretical basis for denying it the honorific title of " democracy " ? |
| 3 | In order to do this , you may find that first you need to look at your feelings of anger and resentment at your partner for denying you the ordinary experience of conception and pregnancy . |
| 4 | One might be excused for wondering what the aged poet really believed . |
| 5 | I am indebted to Mary Harpley at Reed for sending me a complete set of its Sunday Times Wordpower series . |
| 6 | Thank you for sending me the closing statement for the above account . |
| 7 | We chose to tackle the walk from north to south , not least because the route passes our home in the south — though the excellent official guide provides duplicate maps and instructions for waling it the other way . |
| 8 | Thank you for calling us a perfect example . |
| 9 | For six years up to the war , they had raised millions to help their German cousins and had absorbed over 60,000 refugees , not all of them living off charity by any means , but with the great majority owing thanks to Jewish organisations for giving them a new start . |
| 10 | And now , with the way that the human take it to the medical profession for giving them a longer life expectancy , thirty percent of people are diseased . |
| 11 | These two are the best guides to the little constellation of Scutum , with its famous open cluster M11 ; indeed , Scutum used to be included in Aquila , and there does not seem much justification for giving it a separate identity . |
| 12 | One of the reasons for that is that one of the skills of the advocate is to learn to be concise and to get over the message very quickly , and that 's one of the reasons for giving you a short period of time . |
| 13 | Sorry for giving you a hard time there . |
| 14 | So we may want to introduce a more sophisticated mechanism for determining what the desired level of supply is and what we 'll do is that we 'll say this is actually a special case of a much more general , er more s sophisticated . |
| 15 | It is a good sound bite , but it is not any better for hearing it the second time . |
| 16 | Arms cuts , improved verification and clever scaling techniques ( for guessing what a bigger bang would do ) mean that this limit could easily be dropped to 20 kilotons . |
| 17 | But they no longer bothered her , and certainly they were no longer responsible for making her a potential prisoner in her own home . |
| 18 | I 've never loved him , but now I 've started to hate him — for making me the mercenary bitch I am . |
| 19 | Lastly , I would like to thank my parents for making me the Judaeo-Christian hybrid that I am ; and my husband Timothy Boon for his support and ( not always welcome ) criticism . |
| 20 | They 're all added in just because they do n't have an accident does n't might go for making it the safest infrastructure perhaps . |
| 21 | You can see the absurdity of ‘ single-handed acceptance ’ of the responsibility for making anything a commercial success . |
| 22 | Having decided that they would accept Mr Cowdrill as a franchisee , Athena took responsibility for finding him a suitable site , in a prime position in Sutton Coldfield . |
| 23 | Nor will future researchers thank us for leaving them a vast amount of dross which makes the location and comprehension of useful material more difficult . |