Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [conj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I regret that for geographical and personal reasons I am not eligible for re-election and shall be leaving the committee altogether . |
| 2 | As we all dance forward towards the next episode , I realise that for one brief hour we have escaped from the drab monotony of the Oxford English Culture . |
| 3 | These are major changes , and I realise that for many people a further round of reorganisation will not be welcome . |
| 4 | I expect that for an ornithologist death ceases to be terrible once sight and hearing begin to go . |
| 5 | I expect that for other clergy wives whose husbands are less disappointed than Peter God is the other woman . |
| 6 | I speak personally when I say that for me the Eucharist represents God 's powerful declaration that I am ‘ ransomed , healed , restored and forgiven ’ . |
| 7 | Regarding the management structures you have supplied , I suggest that for the smaller unitary authorities a second Assistant Director should be inserted in the proposed Planning Department structures . |
| 8 | I want that for the whole club , but firstly for the fans , who 've been superb . |
| 9 | So , wrote Harsnet , there is continuity as well as discontinuity , but that does not mean , he wrote , that there exists what is called character , personality , character , Goldberg wrote in the margin , personality , as they seem to think , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg went on typing ) , when they say you have such a generous character if you would only recognize it , or you have so much to offer , or it is not for myself I speak but for you , not for myself I mourn but for the waste of all that generosity , when they pour those words over you , character , generosity , warmth , looking sad , shedding tears , putting on a brave face , saying do n't pay any attention to me , or , it 's nothing , forget it , I 'm crying for the waste , meaning waste if it 's not directed towards them , but you have only to see what happens when one lets oneself be persuaded by that sort of thing , wrote Harsnet , you have only to see what happened to Hutchinson , MacMahon , Rollins and Goldberg . |
| 10 | I suspect that for many young Germans it might be pretty meaningless , as it would be for their British or French contemporaries , who simply want to get on with their lives without having to attend to the doings of another generation . |
| 11 | I suspect that for length of service a few others like Sir Alastair Burnet , Mike Neville and Stuart Hall run me pretty close . |
| 12 | I appreciate that for justices the obligation to provide a reasoned judgment at the conclusion of an application under the Children Act 1989 is one that no doubt presents all sorts of practical difficulties , but inevitably the period during which they reserve should be kept to the minimum in accordance with the whole philosophy of the Act which seeks to abridge time for procedural steps . |
| 13 | All three spoke as though the moment were of no real consequence , but I know that for Mother and for O at least it must have been a strange and moving moment . |
| 14 | I ca n't remember now whether in fact we were allowed any at all while we were in the Waaf , but I know that for the few years after I became a civilian again and clothes rationing still went on , the ration allocation was so small that the prospect of buying , for instance , a new winter coat was exceedingly small for most women , especially those with children , whose needs had to come first . |
| 15 | I know that for millions of women it must be an easy , painless decision . |
| 16 | ‘ I know that for a fact — ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I know that for a — ’ |
| 18 | I know that for two years now Welsh labourers and students and journeymen have been stealing away out of England , to make their way back to Wales and enlist under the banner of their self-styled prince . |
| 19 | No I do n't , but nevertheless nobody knew only people like us and the neighbours , how that kid was every day when her mother to the T S B and her mother according to Julia had her because it was the done thing her mother , her own mother would n't have her , Kerry to look after her and I know that for a fact because one time when Ross was ill , Julia said I ca n't have her and she said oh god I suppose I 've got to go and beg my mother to have her now she did , but the woman said to Julia , I mean she would n't give up her job , they had a four bedroomed house , two bloody great cars , eleven cats |
| 20 | I know and for some reason I was incredibly pissed . |
| 21 | We are customers of a massive industry trying to make money and I understand that for some it 's just staying in business that counts . |
| 22 | I believe that for some of us there 's the need to possess for ourselves that inner conviction and excitement that is a mark of New Testament Christianity . |
| 23 | But I believe that for every £100 million spent on sewers , the present real cost to this nation of tax payers would be rather less than £50 million . |
| 24 | This view affects more than just clever scholars ; I believe that for the same reason many Christians who hold to some belief in the Devil do not believe in evil spirits either . |
| 25 | I feel that for a country with so much to offer , it 's a great pity that people do not take more advantage of what 's available . |
| 26 | But I feel that for the smaller and medium-sized companies which are looking to get either some form of institutional funding or some liquidity in their share , it 's very important that there is a second market in some form . ’ |
| 27 | Erm and I feel that for no good reason I was forced to go through a major surgery . |
| 28 | Erm , I , I apologize but for some reason I ca n't explain that the recommendations on , on this items twelve B one and twelve B two should read as follows . |
| 29 | Thus I claim that for decades we have attempted to change the nature of the art in order to meet the requirements of child-centred education — and have felt guilty because it does not work . |
| 30 | But in actual fact I think that for preliminary erm instruction I 'm , I would be better . |