Example sentences of "for [noun] [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 | Competitive Bowling : Having developed a taste for bowling you may wish to consider bowling in a league . |
9 | Under Options for Change we could see there was going to be a reduction in defence expenditure . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | For hours he would brood over the significance of the case brought against Captain Bligh . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 ? |
14 | 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 . |
15 | Word counts can show remarkable discrepancies in the vocabulary control that is typical ; for instance they may contain strawberry but not orange . |
16 | Hardly anybody would think of Richard Wilson or Wright of Derby for instance they 'd think of Turner or Constable . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | For instance we can tend to : |
19 | For instance we can suggest ways of rescheduling the payments over a longer period . |
20 | 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 |
21 | For instance I might go erm that one that one and er that one . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | For instance it would enable broadcasters to offer interactive services — such as the ability for viewers to call up statistics while watching a baseball game . |
25 | If you wanted to make a banner for instance you would highlight banner on the main menu , then choose ‘ font ’ , and choose one of the nine fancy fonts provided . |
26 | So for instance you may have already have a relational database management system , it may or may not be , but that information exists as a service or service provided on the network . |
27 | So for instance you may have real-time . |
28 | The menu is varied and if you choose to do so , you could make a full meal of it — for instance you could choose calamari , followed by Scottish salmon , followed by delicious fudge brownies . |
29 | For instance you could learn to be a , a motor driver , you could learned to be an electrician , you could learn to be an engineer , you could learn to be anything . |
30 | Well for instance you can depend on a man not to get pregnant . |