Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " 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 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 .
9 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 .
10 For hours he would brood over the significance of the case brought against Captain Bligh .
11 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 .
12 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 ?
13 For Bultmann , the resurrection is not an event in our world ( for resurrections he would hold , as I , do not occur in our world ) , but something of far greater magnitude , an eschatological event which represents the breaking in of another world order .
14 They are given advice choosing topics by their tutors , the librarian talks to them about skills they will need ( based on the nine steps approach ) " and range of information available .
15 When we asked buyers on your behalf , about products you would like Sainsbury 's to sell , we discovered all sorts of interesting things .
16 So obsessive was his craving for goals he could put us one up or one down at any minute !
17 Should be very good for schools I would think , would n't it ?
18 The other approach is to let the TB take its course in the badger population and compensate farmers for losses they may suffer as a result of TB spreading to their cattle from the badgers .
19 In exchange for funds he would get the Ping Tiao to do his dirty work — to burn the East European Plantations and create havoc with City Europe 's food supplies , thus de-stabilising Li Shai Tung 's City .
20 I certainly still dream about cichlids I would like to own , and I wondered briefly if I could blue the lot on fish .
21 If people are leaving severed heads in fonts and monkeying about with regimental relics after hours they 'd need keys and naturally it 's awkward for Charles if … ’
22 If they were after foxes they would have either had several nets to cover all the holes or a dog such as a lurcher to chase after and catch the fox .
23 After classes I would buy her a drink and have a little chat about things .
24 THE Duchess of York has had her armed police bodyguards restored after fears she could become an IRA target .
25 A tourist video has been withdrawn from sale after fears it could threaten the safety of children .
26 After Jaws I could have pissed in a pot and they would have paid me something , ’ he says .
27 However , after additions it would appear as in Fig. 7.4 .
28 Between stops we can try and find out why their debut LP , ‘ Eva Luna ’ , is such a welcome anachronism that gives a shock to the nerve-centres of the techno ‘ n ’ grunge consensus , why rhythm is omnipotent once again and why they 've finally broken the apathetic silence by taking us all to task with some bold statements on matters of importance , instead of indistinct paeans to various objects of desire .
29 it 's all up for grabs I would suggest .
30 ‘ The peasant economy can be defined quite simply as that Form of farm production ( and associated activities ) in which the producer and his family till the land themselves , generally utilising their own means of production ( tools and instruments ) , with the object of directly satisfying their basic needs , although for a number of reasons they may find themselves required to sell a part of their produce on the market in order to obtain goods which they do not produce .
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