Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a possible source for Loulou we can , I think , eliminate the mother of a ‘ hideous ’ English family encountered by Gustave on the boat from Alexandria to Cairo : with a green eyeshade attached to her bonnet , she looked ‘ like a sick old parrot ’ . |
| 2 | Those who had somehow violated the bond of trust , friendship , loyalty — for reasons they may not always be able to discern — could find themselves suddenly and inexplicably cast out into the cold . |
| 3 | Both men made for the Mediterranean eventually , for reasons which may have involved a respite from British miseries and injustice . |
| 4 | The character on stage , for reasons which may possibly be explained by the insertion of a line or two into the script , wears a deaf-aid … ’ |
| 5 | The interviewer is trying to find out if you left your last job for reasons which could pose similar problems if you came to work with his/her firm . |
| 6 | For reasons which need not concern us here , they have become almost solely used on the tail rotor servo of model helicopters to assist in controlling the tail and are known as tail rotor gyros or just ‘ gyros ’ . |
| 7 | Nuclear weapons can not escape from the kinds of restraints built up carefully in the laws-of-war tradition over the centuries , but there is a risk that they may be thought to be so escaping ( especially in view of the UK and US reservations to 1977 Geneva Protocol I ) unless positive action in this direction is taken , The comparative neglect of the whole subject of laws-of-war restrictions on the use of nuclear weapons has endured for forty years , for reasons which can be understood if not approved . |
| 8 | For reasons which can not affect any legal issue arising for determination and which , therefore , their Lordships do not need to examine , the Director of Public Prosecutions ( ‘ D.P.P. ’ ) , |
| 9 | For reasons which can only be guessed at he decided to establish himself near Keswick in Cumberland and returned in the following year with Hans Loner , a relative by marriage , and twelve German workers , to set up works and to prospect more fully . |
| 10 | As the months have passed , it his become clear that something like a campaign of disinformation has been waged , for reasons which can still only be guessed at . |
| 11 | Section 2 , ( a ) and ( b ) , of the Statute is not relied on here , for reasons which will be obvious later . |
| 12 | for reasons which will become clear in due course , I prefer not to specify which one . |
| 13 | However , for reasons which will appear later , we have replaced the σ 3 -row with the implicit x 3 -row ( making the σ 3 -row implicit ) . |
| 14 | For reasons which will become clear subsequently we will refer to P1 as problem 0 . |
| 15 | Eadmer has left an exceptionally full account of the Easter Council at St Peter 's in April 1099 ; and for reasons which will become apparent later , this was his last full-scale account of any great event in Anselm 's life . |
| 16 | We choose to do this in terms of a simplified version of the computer described in the paper ‘ Preliminary discussion of the logical design of an electronic computing instrument ’ by Burks , Goldstine , and Von Neumann ( 1946 ) , for reasons which will be mentioned later . |
| 17 | The set of all polynomials with coefficients in Q will , for reasons which will emerge in Section 1.8 , be denoted , as usual , by Q[x] . |
| 18 | It is worth formalising the situation , for reasons which will emerge later . |
| 19 | For reasons which will become apparent in due course , it is necessary to restrict the type of sentence used in the definition . |
| 20 | For reasons which will appear it is necessary first to refer to the legislation affecting the taxation of benefits in kind before 1975 . |
| 21 | Deaf people , whether they be children , young people or adults , have always posed something of a challenge to generalised policies of integration , for reasons which will be laid out clearly below . |
| 22 | For reasons which will become apparent , I will not provide more than a brief overview of this approach . |
| 23 | Then the matrix product has components C is known as the right Cauchy-Green deformation tensor for reasons which will become apparent later . |
| 24 | It will not escape notice that , first , this question enquires about the verb and the adjective together , not the adjective alone ; and , second , this is precisely the form of question that can be used for a single , unmodified transitive verb : ( 9 ) Lionel shredded the memoranda what did Lionel do to the memoranda ? 5.2 For reasons which will become apparent , we shall call the adjectives in this structure adverbal adjectives . |
| 25 | The one group who placed ( i ) towards the end of their story did so for reasons which will be discussed shortly . |
| 26 | We do not believe that the orthodox account provides a satisfactory explanation of the crisis , for reasons we shall be giving shortly . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | For reasons we shall see in a moment , discount houses are always prepared to buy such bills . |
| 29 | For reasons we need not go into , Lord Exeter successfully prevented the main line from entering the town : it was taken through Peterborough instead . |
| 30 | But , what happens if , for example , on day 20 , rates of interest were to rise for reasons we need not be concerned with here ? |