Example sentences of "[noun pl] for [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main reasons for writing to the Lancet are frustration that we have been discredited , that our grants depend on this work and also that all the evidence is in writing . ’ |
| 2 | There are other reasons for belonging to a choir . |
| 3 | He gave me two good reasons for moving to the city . |
| 4 | Empirical evidence also began to build up , and Spooner ( 1972 ) , in a study of employers who had moved to the southwest found that more of them cited the attractive environment of Devon and Cornwall as reasons for moving to the area , than its labour supply , and Lonsdale and Browning ( 1971 , 267 ) found that manufacturing plants in 10 southern USA States were more orientated to rural than urban areas and that : ‘ manufacturing firms appear to be placing increased emphasis on rural and small town sites ’ . |
| 5 | My initial reasons for believing in the men 's innocence were ones of which the law takes no cognisance at all . |
| 6 | The dominating tendency of mental life , and perhaps of nervous life in general , is the effort to reduce , to keep constant or to remove internal tension due to stimuli ( the ‘ Nirvana Principle ’ , to borrow a term from Barbara Low ) — a tendency which finds expression in the pleasure principle ; and our recognition of that fact is one of our strongest reasons for believing in the existence of the death instincts . |
| 7 | Vice Chair , I have given the Council , I believe , many good reasons for electing to the office of Lord Mayor for this year . |
| 8 | From a brief and rather difficult passage in his judgment [ 1991 ] 2 H.K.L.R. 400 , 413 , it seems that Barnett J. was disposed to consider that the submission was correct , but it evidently served only to underline his reasons for concurring with the district judge . |
| 9 | For that reason , the model adopted in medical education where the student is continually asked to articulate his or her experience and give reasons for acting in a certain way is particularly valuable . |
| 10 | Often they have understandable ( albeit incorrect ) reasons for acting in the way they did . |
| 11 | Although it seems that the luminosity of the centre can be provided by the central star cluster , there remain compelling reasons for searching for a possibly dormant massive black hole . |
| 12 | ‘ Perhaps not , and he may have had sentimental reasons for going to the little hut , but I want to be sure . |
| 13 | The next witnesses , on behalf of the CEGB , said that there were three main reasons for going for a PWR . |
| 14 | There must have been , for the time being at least , compelling reasons for embarking on the Foxton development . |
| 15 | The heroes , the solid men of yeoman virtue , the good breeding stock , even the captain ( especially the captain ! ) — they all went down nobly with the ship ; whereas the cowards , the panickers , the deceivers found reasons for skulking in a lifeboat . |
| 16 | Other reasons for returning after a long period away include : |
| 17 | In my judgment the Secretary of State , if he sets a tariff period which exceeds that recommended by the judiciary , is not under an absolute obligation to give reasons for departing from the judicial view . |
| 18 | reasons for applying to a particular institution |
| 19 | reasons for applying to a particular course |
| 20 | We have seen , then , that the historical reasons for charging in the social services are diverse and often contradictory , but a case can still be made for charging on a priori grounds . |
| 21 | Since then financial markets concluded they have three good reasons for betting on a devaluation of the pound against the DM . |
| 22 | In trying to analyse the reasons for conferring upon the management of the company substantial power to run the company the law has relied heavily on a variety of conceptions of the company . |
| 23 | There are many good reasons for putting in a network , but a couple are compelling : resource sharing and specific functionality . |
| 24 | Commenting on his reasons for selling off the chain he founded in 1978 , Mr Weatherburn said that last year had been ‘ very difficult ’ , not just because of the stampede into remaindering by other companies ( see also Christmas in the Bookshops , page 27 ) . |
| 25 | Only limited notes need to be given in the abbreviated accounts for filing with the Registrar : |
| 26 | Doctors in early modern England had developed no special skills for dealing with the health of older people . |
| 27 | Cut out long thin strips for trimming around the top edge of the boat and fix on with a dampened paint brush . |
| 28 | ( i mean the way he have sticked with specially dino shows us that — dino himself who expressed wishes for playing at the international level himself when he joined leeds — i guess he is a farther away now : the likes of Shearer , Wright ( a flop in the internationals ) , Cole ( hey there is one that puts them in the net ) and Ferdinand will have no problems keeping him out … ) |
| 29 | Arriving at Napo , I discussed plans for collecting with the INIAP technician , José Baquero , who was to be my assistant on the project . |
| 30 | My plans for flying around the beautiful Nelson and Marlborough Sounds area happened to be frustrated by the fact that Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands was visiting nearby . |