Example sentences of "[noun pl] for [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like Irenaeus , Epiphanius condemns the Ebionites or Nazareans for denying the Virgin Birth , teaching that Jesus was a man born of men , declaring that Jesus became Messiah only on his baptism and using alternative versions of the Acts of the Apostles . |
| 2 | They have strong reasons for wanting the Montego . |
| 3 | I had an uneasy feeling that Sir Robert Armstrong had other reasons for wanting the programme postponed , but would not say what they were . |
| 4 | One of his reasons for leaving the Navy had been his dislike of the social relations between officers and ratings — take three paces backwards and shout at them . |
| 5 | Eight months later , Cuka hinted briefly at her reasons for leaving the show . |
| 6 | It was called " Reunion by Destruction " and in it Eliot set out his reasons for opposing the idea of uniting the Anglican , Presbyterian , Congregationalist and Methodist churches . |
| 7 | So it was that in indicating my reasons for preferring the West Country for my motoring , instead of leaving it at mentioning several of the alluring details as conveyed by Mrs Symons 's volume , I made the error of declaring that a former housekeeper of Darlington Hall was resident in that region . |
| 8 | Reasons for preferring the cash flow statement : |
| 9 | All political parties have their own reasons for pushing the quality of public services further up the political agenda . |
| 10 | In syntactic theory , the verb is often taken to be the head of the sentence , but for our purposes , as we shall see , there are reasons for casting the subject in this role . |
| 11 | In summary then , the reasons for choosing The Machine Gunners include the opportunities it offers for various aspects of personal involvement on the part of the reader and its curricular potentials with regard to related topic , theme , and language work . |
| 12 | Slightly different considerations show that some reasons for recognizing the authority of another are secondary . |
| 13 | In addition , there are all the practical difficulties as to the accessibility of Parliamentary material , the cost of researching it and the use of court time in analysing it , which are good reasons for maintaining the rule . |
| 14 | In other words , we can only understand the difference between the public and the private by understanding the reasons for drawing the distinction . |
| 15 | Parking problems and noise in the mainly residential area around Darlington Memorial hospital , where the development would have taken place , were given as the main reasons for dismissing the appeal by Surrey-based Bioplan . |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , ’ Sven Hjerson went on , ‘ it is in fact , I am thinking , that all those people who might have given that not very well balanced car the one push needed have also possible reasons for wishing the death of Lord Woodleigh . |
| 17 | As Whyte ( 1 943 , p. 300 ) noted in his classic study of Chicago street gangs , acceptance by informants depends much more on the development of personal relationships than on any explanation concerning the reasons for conducting the research . |
| 18 | There are generally two pragmatic reasons for knowing the strength of a material . |
| 19 | In any case , the reasons for regarding the idea of numerical identity and that of numerical diversity as significant are not such as might enable us to decide unequivocally whether something observed on one occasion is numerically the same as something else observed on a different occasion , or how many ontological objects are involved in a given case . |
| 20 | Although my hon. Friend makes persuasive and powerful arguments , I can not accept that they are convincing reasons for moving the line . |
| 21 | In 4.2 I gave reasons for doubting the existence or if not the existence the usefulness of infallible beliefs . |
| 22 | We give here the main reasons for doubting the validity of Urquhart 's population dose estimates , and for rejecting the conclusions of the accompanying contribution ‘ Looking for an increase in deaths from cancer ’ ( pB74 ) . |
| 23 | Here too there are reasons for reversing the priority . |
| 24 | The reasons for believing the silicon chip to be the cause of another industrial revolution are to do with its cost , capability , and versatility . |
| 25 | It made no fucking sense at all , but Plummer had his reasons for believing the information . |
| 26 | There were practical reasons for establishing the principle of restitution in this case . |
| 27 | Ziegler ( 1978 ) , in his discussion of the Mass Observation records on the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953 , records that the two most commonly cited reasons for supporting the coronation were that it created wealth and that it united the nation . |
| 28 | Curricular considerations are also cited as reasons for using the text , ‘ provides lots of material for discussion ’ ; ‘ discussion work on relationships possible ’ ; ‘ set in the war so plenty of related work ’ ; ‘ recent TV version gives added interest ’ ; ‘ regional dimension adds further scope ’ . |
| 29 | His reasons for using the guillotine in the past , which were appropriate at the time but are inappropriate now , were apparently that Labour legislation was very good and his guillotine motions showed the requisite democratic reticence . |
| 30 | ‘ We reiterated our support for US help and our reasons for seeing the envoy as one way in which the United States should express its friendship to Ireland and to Britain . ’ |