Example sentences of "for [pos pn] [noun sg] [be] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the main reason for my silence was that secrecy and deception had by then become second nature to me . |
| 2 | But what alarmed and frightened her most and had her leaping for her pen was this talk of ‘ us ’ , of Oreste and Ellen being a pair who were ‘ happy together ’ and would never come to Italy . |
| 3 | Another reason for its failure was that CAFFE could only ever provide a single path through the diagnostic tree ; there was no way to volunteer information and to jump ahead to a later section of the flow chart . |
| 4 | At two-twenty Minto 's party appeared , saying that the reason for their delay was that Liddiat , the handyman employed by Minto at The Kilns , had pumped up the tyres of the car so hard that it was impossible to drive at more than fifteen miles per hour . |
| 5 | Gower was even more stung to learn one of the reasons for his omission was that England play eight one-day internationals on tour . |
| 6 | The most significant part of Grundrisse for our subject is that part which has been published separately in English under the title Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations together with a very valuable introduction by the historian E. Hobsbawm . |
| 7 | What is more significant for our purpose is that proportion of premium income which found its way into the acquisition of other financial assets . |