Example sentences of "for [verb] [conj] [pron] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do n't start that again , Ruth , or I 'll manually wrench your other ankle after I 've spanked your backside for suggesting that I am keeping you from your work . |
| 2 | And that bloke is responsible for seeing that everything is put in place . |
| 3 | Richard is responsible for seeing that it is done . |
| 4 | To give this impression would ensure shipwreck on a reef which we shall in any case be lucky to avoid , the indifference of the reader who takes it for granted that we are trying to deduce imperatives from the facts of which one ought to be aware , and assumes in advance that there has to be a flaw somewhere , hardly worth the trouble of locating , as in a new proposal for a perpetual-motion machine . |
| 5 | There is nothing essentially new in thus narrowing the scope of will ; most of mankind throughout most of its history seems to have taken it for granted that they were moved by forces from beyond them and mysterious to them , which might lift them above or drag them below the capacities of which they might presume to be in command ( in Christian theology , the unpredictable visitations of divine grace assisting a will otherwise impotent to resist the Devil ) , and in the present century , ever since Freud demonstrated that the same conception of man could be translated from a religious into a psychological language , we have found ourselves thinking our way back to it . |
| 6 | Well the others have made a bit , we just took it for granted that she was giving us ten per cent rise , and did n't bother , cos they trusted her , but |
| 7 | Soon she took my visits for granted and I was given the spare key to let myself in the door . |
| 8 | And if I had known this my justification for believing that they are playing at home would be defeated , because I also believe that they normally accept such invitations . |
| 9 | The main reason for believing that it was neglected was its complete absence from any cinema newsreels of the period . ’ |
| 10 | Its truthful and intimate style gives us no reason for supposing that we are seeing anything other than Handel at home — his own comfortable and well worn chair , his own clothes and his own table . |
| 11 | Writers had to forecast the number of pages for printing before they were written , and sometimes before the legislation had been finalised . |
| 12 | Over one hundred Tesco stores have bottle banks to collect glass for recycling and we are introducing paper banks as fast as we can . |
| 13 | Cyclamen also prefer being sited in cooler spots and are often renowned for failing because they are kept too warm . |
| 14 | You hate him for coming because he 's told you that Gerry is n't just missing , but dead . |
| 15 | She was sad in advance , and yet at the same time all the happier , doubly happy , for knowing that she recognized her happiness , that it was not slipping by her unheeded , for knowing that she was creating for herself a past . |
| 16 | Though lost or not , as you 've never received any official sanction there must be a strong case to be made for claiming that you 're trading illegally . ’ |
| 17 | Nevertheless there are some reasons for thinking that we are acquainted with the ‘ I ’ . |
| 18 | His eyes widened to accentuate the point and reprimand Blanche for thinking that he was straying from the matter in hand . |
| 19 | Standards can be set , but arrangements for ensuring that they are maintained in the private sector are still inadequate . |
| 20 | With all these records being generated in diverse electronic environments , who is responsible for ensuring that they are looked after adequately ? |
| 21 | If a teacher had no direct responsibility for ensuring that anything was produced it tended to involve them only marginally : |
| 22 | IT WAS N'T a record but that grand Heriot 's FP hooker of yesteryear , Bob Tollervey , who was 16 times reserve for Scotland without ever winning a cap , could be excused for feeling that he was born at the wrong time . |