Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For reasons we shall see in a moment , discount houses are always prepared to buy such bills . |
| 2 | For reasons we shall look at in Chapter 9 , it proved almost impossible to limit monetary growth to these target ranges and yet inflation still fell . |
| 3 | The famous photograph of the 72-year-old Albert Einstein sticking out his tongue at the camera inspired an Australian film-maker who ( for reasons he may come to regret ) has adopted the name of Yahoo Serious to make Young Einstein ( PG ) , a mock-heroic biopic dedicated to ‘ the genius rebel with a clowning sense of humour ’ . |
| 4 | But a sophisticated pragmatist might nevertheless be tempted , for reasons he would believe fully respectable , to disguise these attenuations . |
| 5 | The only popular spectator sport , as opposed to game , is professional boxing although for reasons I shall come to later , the only sportsmen involved are those backing the contenders and not the participants themselves . |
| 6 | If they are equating punishment with the wider range of non-physical penalties , however , I would not agree ( for reasons I will explain later ) . |
| 7 | Besides , for reasons I will come to shortly , the name Argol was familiar to me . |
| 8 | Competitive Bowling : Having developed a taste for bowling you may wish to consider bowling in a league . |
| 9 | As chairman you can make or break the meeting by rewarding the wrong kind of behaviour by participants . |
| 10 | Under Options for Change we could see there was going to be a reduction in defence expenditure . |
| 11 | As camouflage they must obtain local clothing . |
| 12 | If this is the case , check what materials there are — you might be able to make suggestions to your students about programmes they would find interesting to watch . |
| 13 | If it is possible to show that existential propositions are equivalent to denials of the validity of inferences of a certain kind , then instead of talking about existence we can confine ourselves to talking about the validity of inference . |
| 14 | For hours he would sit by the window , and look out on the empty , Sunday street , as the church bells tolled dismally from different points in the town . |
| 15 | For hours he would brood over the significance of the case brought against Captain Bligh . |
| 16 | This is a vindictive and intolerant motion it sets an unfortunate precedent and in this debate about freedom we should support the rights of our tenants to choose . |
| 17 | Pausanias thought Myrtilos was under the heads of Oenomaus 's horses , but since he certainly took the girl for male he may have meant her . |
| 18 | ‘ If I hear anything about Pascoe I 'll pass it on . ’ |
| 19 | Even when I played through proxies he must have still known it was me , because one day , 'bout the end of my second year on Mars , I woke up with the blues just like you did . |
| 20 | When the plan is being constructed and teachers are deciding upon success criteria for plans they may put searching questions and suggest additional ways to ensure that objectives become reality : if a school aims ‘ involve all pupils ’ are checks being made to see whether this is occurring ? |
| 21 | If she could get there before the long closure for lunch-hour he would make her up a preparation , and Peony could get it back to her mother and possibly get back again to the harbour for the Swimming Gala . |
| 22 | Word counts can show remarkable discrepancies in the vocabulary control that is typical ; for instance they may contain strawberry but not orange . |
| 23 | Hardly anybody would think of Richard Wilson or Wright of Derby for instance they 'd think of Turner or Constable . |
| 24 | We introduce the term transput from the Algol 68 language to cover both input and output : thus for instance we will talk of a transput device instead of a peripheral device , and a transput operation instead of an input/output operation . |
| 25 | For instance we can tend to : |
| 26 | For instance we can suggest ways of rescheduling the payments over a longer period . |
| 27 | Right we can supply bank information for instance we can supply you with the balance , erm we should be able to let you know what sort of standing orders there are , erm but that would be charged at an extra rate because |
| 28 | For instance I might go erm that one that one and er that one . |
| 29 | All of the sources on the on the network look like so for instance I can do joins across two heterogeneous R D B M Ss. you can have a table with departments in , employee 's in Oracle , and salaries in D B two and I could use a single select statement and join all that information together in a single request to the Omni SQL Gateway . |
| 30 | If Microsoft is found to have a case to answer , the minimum possibility is that the company is forced to sign a consent decree under which it has to unbundle , and agree not to bundle in future — for instance it might have to dismantle Windows for Workgroups and sell the networking elements as a separate product ( similar networking code will be an integral part of standard Windows NT ) ; at worst , the company could be forced to split itself into two completely different companies , one for operating systems and languages , the other for applications . |