Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] for [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I apoligise for putting a long list of questions to the Minister , but I gave him advance notice and I hope that he will answer most of them . |
| 2 | Well , if death can ever be glamorous , that , I suppose , is the glamorous side of war casualties , but I think we need to spend the rest of our time very much looking at what it was like for the ordinary people of St Aldate's. erm And here , I apologise for producing a modern slide of Carfax , but I think just to remind you that we are talking about a very busy crowded city area , and erm about a city whose whole aspect was changing during the war . |
| 3 | The role which I adopted for studying the process was that of non-participant observer . |
| 4 | It is more than I bargain for to recall the names of my own … family . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ A lot of thanks I get for doing a good deed , ’ she said . |
| 6 | I apologize for using the semimetaphorical terms ‘ hard ’ and ‘ soft ’ in this essay , but after puzzling over the matter for some time I can see no other way of setting about it . |
| 7 | Any gene I had for making a sacrifice , on behalf of a a sibling , are one hundred percent in my own body . |
| 8 | I had for winning a free place at ten , |
| 9 | I apologised for slamming the car boot down upon it and commenting churlishly upon its perkiness and assumed that since ferns grew in the wild and my great aunt had had a whole conservatory of them , they were not difficult to rear . |
| 10 | They say the Tories are still looking for someone to blame for losing the seat . |
| 11 | Then , Messrs. Gwynne 's proposal for equalising the strain on each individual rope by means of connected hydraulic rams is most satisfactory , as also is their suggesting for actuating the lift-up gates by means of hydraulic pressure utilising the engine for pumping up the accumulator . ’ |
| 12 | In both these cases , there is a conformity in coverage which takes for granted a certain perspective on these issues . |
| 13 | Simmel tends towards a Romantic style of analysis which takes for granted a primitive undifferentiated nature , and various latent versions of totality , for example in art and aesthetics as models of utopian , if transient , resolutions . |
| 14 | The people and Government of Mexico take pride in supporting what came to be known as ‘ The Declaration Of Stockholm , ’ a key component of which called for declaring the 5th June World Environment Day . |
| 15 | Civilization 's other important component , in addition to the technical means for controlling nature , is the corpus of regulations which exist for adjusting the relations between men . |
| 16 | The woman made a pile of cracked Minton tea plates in the wire in-tray that she used for stacking the washing-up . |
| 17 | What alternative ways can you suggest for introducing the concept of time ? |
| 18 | The book , which is fierce , elegant and utterly unsparing is bound to enrage anyone who takes for granted the necessity of State funding for the arts . |
| 19 | But that is because he is a physical scientist , who takes for granted the biologists " theory of evolution . |
| 20 | Not trusting herself to speak , she settled for gripping the butt of her gun with white knuckles . |
| 21 | The room was exactly as she 'd left it — shoes in the middle of the floor , the overall she wore for doing the bedrooms thrown over the back of the chair . |
| 22 | The reasons she advances for maintaining the book 's integrity are based on modesty of intention : it is better not to divulge the precise methods of punishment used by its Mrs Teachum , since the book is addressed less to teachers than to pupils . |
| 23 | You took for granted the presence of the Germans and the wire as ordinary citizens take for granted the law of gravity . |
| 24 | If you show that you are a master of the relevant knowledge , the examiner will readily give you credit for knowing the rest of the subject , An example would be the question : ‘ The jury is a historical anachronism . ’ |
| 25 | He said : ‘ Things were looking very bad because the lowest estimate we received for putting the club right after the fire was £180,000 . |
| 26 | We would also be grateful for any feed-back on the educational materials we produce for supporting the curriculum , either through our volunteer or direct to Head Office . |
| 27 | The advantages of using your own transport or having electricity available at the flick of a switch are obvious , but are the benefits of the chemical industry really recognised , or do we take for granted the improvements it has brought to our life-style ? |
| 28 | Whatever actual technique we use for taking the sample the key thing is that everyone should be ‘ on the list ’ in the first place . |
| 29 | At the moment we 're dealing with a general purpose system , which is designed for all sorts of applications , and one pays for having a thing general purpose by costing more money . |
| 30 | It seems incredible to us today that Carey should have had such difficulty in convincing christians of the necessity of sharing the Gospel with ‘ the heathen ’ , but this is because we take for granted the radical influence his views have had upon our modern view of mission . |