Example sentences of "[noun pl] for [pron] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does it not add to the reasons for which they have to act , and to the considerations which may justify their authority ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I now set out the reasons for which I agreed that the appeal should be allowed . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ The more they can see business reasons for what they do , the more likely they are to continue their support . |
| 6 | And they 've got good reasons for what they do . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | Thorfinn would have his reasons for whatever he did . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The Liberal Democrats have outlined their plans for what they call , ’ national recovery and regeneration ’ , by the turn of the century . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I think it was two hours for me I had to plough that one . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | You went into the fields and woods for what you needed , according to season . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | By this I do not mean that he did no experiments , but that he explained his results by hypothesizing the existence of entities for which he had no direct evidence . |
| 23 | The splitters reply that only fine-grained analysis can identify the precise patterns of actions on which we base our subjective impressions , and perhaps uncover other coherent patterns for which we have no names . |
| 24 | Products for which they have authority to supply are also given code numbers and unless invoices are referenced to order number , with suppliers and product codes , payment can not be made without investigation . |
| 25 | Can I say two minutes for what I think might happen and where we 've derived some of the authority from . |
| 26 | He replied : ‘ I wo n't need five minutes for what I have to say . ’ |
| 27 | The directors of these films , tourists in working-class cultures for which they felt little sympathy , saw only what they wanted to see . |
| 28 | In pre-1914 Europe , therefore , almost as much as at any time in the past , the making and , to a lesser extent , the conduct of foreign policy by the great states remained in the hands of a small , sometimes very small , number of individuals who were effectively uncontrolled by the peoples for whom they acted . |
| 29 | The endearment eased the expression of pain on his face a little , but still he held me and still he searched my eyes for something I knew was n't there . |
| 30 | In these transitional years of fluctuating opinion some continued to adopt a passive attitude towards fatalities , in which they sought to trace the hand of God , whilst others favoured active remedies for what they held to be primarily human failings . |