Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [pers pn] [vb base] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | For if they are so obsessed with witchcraft and sorcery , how can they possibly also comprehend those empirical chains of cause and effect which we take for granted and employ as the touchstone of rationality ? |
| 2 | All storms contain a force which we take for granted . |
| 3 | No been on it , like it 's got all any , all numbers down side what you use for which |
| 4 | When you approach pluggers or press officers , bear in mind that this is how they make their money , and the amount of enthusiasm which they show for your product may not be a true indication of the coverage which they can secure . |
| 5 | But the Pisan ordeal had shocked Pound into recovering a compassion and tenderness which we look for mostly in vain in the Pound of the years preceding . |
| 6 | Er my Lord er the second observation I make about erm Mr opinion erm and the facts upon which it is based is that his opinion is hotly disputed er , not least because of what it would be submitted is the highly speculative nature of this enterprise er , when you are being asked to consider with the benefit of hindsight , whether or not a business entered into some eighty years ago , was likely to have failed and er it is also an exercise which in my submission is entirely irrelevant if your Lordship would find the basis of compensation which I contend for is the one because the logic of not having to become involved in any investigation of whether or not this business would probably have been unsuccessful in any event . |
| 7 | You can do this each year on a percentage basis which you set for that year on the basis of your knowledge of the church-going habits of the congregation . |
| 8 | But it is extremely important to remember that the teaching of undergraduate students in the eighteen to twenty-one age group is only a part , that 's the one people usually evaluate universities , but it 's only a part of the job which we do for society . |
| 9 | I have one or two such places up my sleeve which I save for difficult days but I do n't spoil it by going to them too often . |
| 10 | It makes so much difference if you tell each other what you hope for , rather than expecting your partner to know , or to assume that your partner wants and expects the same things . |
| 11 | It 's at the end of the day what you do for them . |
| 12 | I reflect with sadness upon the emotional hiatus which I have for England . |
| 13 | ( Princes ) do not have the right to say that they find the books dedicated to them atrocious or that the music which they play for them scorches their ears … |
| 14 | Now , I 'm a pensioner , and I think it 's a scandal what we get for a pension after all the years that you , you fight for you , you put away for your old age , and before you know it you 've nothing ! |
| 15 | From such a viewpoint , everyone obtains from life what they work for , and in the end most people eventually obtain what they deserve . |
| 16 | I ca n't remember what I ca n't remember what they charge , it is on that bill what they charge for a Saturday . |
| 17 | Ultimately the attractiveness of MINIS-type systems to public sector managers lies in the comprehensive picture which they can provide of organizational activities , and also in the potential which they hold for decentralization within departments . |
| 18 | We have tried to sum up the fragments of information which we have for the last three centuries in our second chapter , ‘ Glimpses of a Lost History ’ . |
| 19 | Coventry have a book which they keep for fire purposes of , signing themselves in and out . |
| 20 | He says we ask farmers to produce food which we pay for . |
| 21 | We came out with a record recently called ’ no matter who you vote for the Government always gets in ’ |
| 22 | In the main we we look for an average between sixteen to twenty pages |
| 23 | No matter what you want for your home , from a high technology water system to a scrolled Edwardian radiator made from original castings , it should be there . |
| 24 | If it were made good , it would go a long way towards providing a justification for denying English the place in our educational system which we demand for it . |
| 25 | As the later authors have adjusted the dating of the Muftilik of Molla Arab in order to make room for that of Abdulkerim , so they have stretched the facts considerably in extending the Muftilik of Molla Husrev to cover the whole vexed period from the date which they give for the death of Fahreddin Acemi , namely 865/1460–1 , to that which they give for the accession of Molla Gurani ( 885/1480 ; but cf. below , pp. 144 et sqq. , especially p. 150 ) . |
| 26 | ‘ Have you any idea what I do for a living , Christine ? ’ |
| 27 | Electricity is an indispensable source of energy which we take for granted in our everyday lives . |
| 28 | The purpose of of these four orders , which I must say I greatly welcome , it is one of the , the most beneficial things to come out of the B C C I er disaster er and er i if I can say in in effectively in answer to everything the honourable gentleman for Great Grimsby said and he and I have debated on many occasions , if fact usually on the television not on the floor of the house , but er an an an an because of it for not quite so long either , er but erm th the point I would make to his is that really what he was saying was th that what went wrong with B C C I is that Price Waterhouse knew there was fraud and did n't say so and that wha what Lord Justice Bingham pointed out was that there is a clear conflict of interest between the interest of the client who they work for and the public interest and that what needed , what was needed was some amendment to the banking act to clarify that and that is precisely what er this order actually does and you ca n't really er Madam Deputy Speaker , expect anyone to really seriously criticise the government when in actual fact not only have they come up with the regulation to deal with that but they 've also gone further and said we will apply this to financial services and to building societies and to insurance companies as well , just to be absolutely sure . |
| 29 | Well , well there 's arm one you go for , you 'll have to . |
| 30 | C. If you ask the people on a housing estate what they do for a living — what their occupations are — you probably will get answers like those in the drawing . |