Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [pron] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 So I hope hopefully this evening will be a very constructive meeting and we 'll certainly welcome your views about what you feel should be happening to the theatre or should be taken or should be taken place at the theatre , what should be on at the theatre , and er things that you feel that are n't happening at the moment .
2 Nevertheless , the managers , having probably visited several venture capitalists with their business plan at the outset of the buy-out process , may well have their own views about who they want to work with , and will wish to be involved in the syndication process .
3 Does it not add to the reasons for which they have to act , and to the considerations which may justify their authority ?
4 We would ask the reader to bear in mind from the outset , however , that we write from the viewpoint of the English urban sub-culture , in which we are not only fieldworkers and observers but life members ; nevertheless , we believe that the English and American complexes of parental experience show very many points of coincidence , both historically and contemporaneously , both in the things that parents do and in the reasons for which they do them : and that , therefore , a discussion in these terms will have a validity for parent-child behaviour on both sides of the Atlantic .
5 I now set out the reasons for which I agreed that the appeal should be allowed .
6 Although the company is trying to limit the damage of Pettitt 's departure , Specialix competitors cite other reasons for what they see as the company 's loss of direction .
7 ‘ The more they can see business reasons for what they do , the more likely they are to continue their support .
8 And they 've got good reasons for what they do .
9 I can look for reasons for what I did and call those reasons excuses ; what he did to Alice , how he bullied Mother , how I hated him .
10 For the latter he quoted a sentence by Lucian , the second-century Greek rhetorician : ‘ A work of art requires an intelligent spectator who must go beyond the pleasure of the eyes to express a judgement and to argue the reasons for what he sees . ’
11 Thorfinn would have his reasons for whatever he did .
12 However , many IMRO members do name the accounts for whom they want the firm to deal and these accounts can therefore qualify as indirect customers .
13 Unfortunately , the survey did not ask them if they sold the products about which they said they had received insufficient training .
14 But what is peculiar to the doctor is that the successful action , the save , is seen to be brought about through the use of the esoteric skills for which he trained and which , by and large , remain untested and unused .
15 It is in this area that more clinical research might most profitably be done , for these are complex psychological phenomena about which we have little certainty .
16 The cultural phenomena through which we glimpse female spirituality in the Middle Ages are undoubtedly important for feminist studies .
17 Again , part of men 's extra earnings comes from their greater tendency to work shifts for which they get paid extra , and overtime which gets paid at premium rates .
18 The Liberal Democrats have outlined their plans for what they call , ’ national recovery and regeneration ’ , by the turn of the century .
19 Coleridge 's Welsh visit , by contrast , was perhaps the least significant part of his wanderings during the next few weeks , and almost from the moment he left Cambridge , his simple plans for what he called his ‘ peregrination ’ began to grow more complex .
20 If you really care about the unemployed with special needs , if you really care about special projects for which they work upon , you should support the Scheme .
21 She distrusted the institutions through which they exercised influence from the moment that supreme power seemed within her grasp .
22 I , we 're not , I do n't know whether you 've got , we could say we were activists , we do n't , I do n't even know who goes on a march or anything , but we do do our best for anything we support and get signatures for anything they ask us to .
23 In cases about which I know only that his performance is better than mine , letting his advice tilt the balance in favour of his solution will sometimes , depending on my rate of mistakes and the formula used , improve my performance .
24 I think it was two hours for me I had to plough that one .
25 One of the national museums and galleries for which I have responsibility , the Tate , is making great efforts , by setting up galleries in , for example , Liverpool and shortly in St. Ives , to make others of its collections regularly available for view in the north-west or the south-west .
26 You went into the fields and woods for what you needed , according to season .
27 THE foreign ministers of 19 West European countries yesterday laid the foundations for what they hope will emerge as a pan-European association joined by the reforming countries of Eastern Europe .
28 Acting upon information received while sleeping , she draws up her invincible battle plans , foils the conspiracies of assassins , learns of the infidelities and corruptions for which she blackmails both her loyalists ( to ensure their support ) and her opponents ( to ensure theirs ) .
29 However , this approach holds dangers for him which become apparent when we try to discover what a contradiction is .
30 This means that many mergers for which there have been no demonstrable advantages , but which have not been found to be overtly anti-competitive , have been allowed through , and thus contributed to the general increase in industrial concentration .
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