Example sentences of "for [noun pl] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Connie said : ‘ It has been a marvellous year for outings and we have been very fortunate with the weather this summer . ’ |
| 2 | I mean , we 're not , erm , we 're just simplifying a very complex situation , and in fact , probably large numbers of genes are , are involved , and they 're , there are probably complex interactions between different sorts of altruism. kin altruism will certainly function within families for reasons that we 've just been looking at , but this will also be a fertile and erm , encouraging er , framework for sibling altruism . |
| 3 | The Touche Ross report had to be completed in a considerable hurry , for reasons that we understand . |
| 4 | About one hundred million years ago , for reasons that we do not understand , the ammonite dynasty began to dwindle . |
| 5 | Young kids , some of them not even teenagers , were arriving all the time , mostly for reasons that they had n't thought through or could n't express . |
| 6 | But for reasons that he took to be his own error in transcription , anything that he pilfered straight from life never sounded convincing . |
| 7 | We can all still bring leather in from our friends in Australia but for reasons that I do n't wholly understand , this is very much dearer than the local er supplies available and for the time being it 's not of interest to the saddlery-makers in Walsall . |
| 8 | Once only was I able to talk to Hayward de vive voix , and that was at the Institute of Contemporary Arts , when I referred again to the housekeeper problem ; but in the end , for reasons that I do not know , our Greek candidate , who might have been an admirable choice , was not summoned for interview . |
| 9 | The only increase smaller than the £15 is in what is known as the terminal illness category for nursing homes , for reasons that I explained to the House in my uprating statement , where we have instead thought it more appropriate to make , through the Department of Health , an additional grant of £1 million specifically directed to the funding of hospices . |
| 10 | None of that , for reasons that I have already explained , is put in jeopardy by the trust proposal . |
| 11 | I am glad to have the chance of following the hon. Member for Honiton ( Sir P. Emery ) , the Chairman of the Procedure Select Committee , although I strongly disagree with his suggestions , for reasons that I have given before and hope to repeat this evening . |
| 12 | Second , these principles should then lead us on a successful search for phenomena that we had not observed previously . |
| 13 | Theyll have to give us the trophy for keeps if we win it again in the next quarter century . |
| 14 | This tactic does sometimes work , but it 's quite risky for Orcs because it ties up a lot of character points which you could well use elsewhere . |
| 15 | not fair on a animal as I say , he 's bound to be trapped at the bloody door for hours before anybody come in and |
| 16 | In interviews , Gedge said he was fascinated by the downside of Best 's character ; the flaws in his make-up that led him to skip training session and stay in discotheques ( as they were then called ) for hours after he had officially opened them . |
| 17 | ‘ We bought it in Paris and I had to stand for hours while they fitted me . |
| 18 | He was an exacting colleague , and college meetings lasted for hours as he reminisced about the past ; but it was his way of educating the fellows in the traditions of the college . |
| 19 | I suppose for hours cos I had loads from when I was teaching so wi that , I 've donated those cos our own children would never get to mark them . |
| 20 | For transgressions that I did n't know I 'd made ? |
| 21 | Another worry is that the existence of guaranteed compensation will encourage some farmers to apply for grants for operations that they have no real intention of carrying out , simply in order to become eligible for compensation . |
| 22 | He replied that there was n't , but that I should have asked for Operations when I got to Porto . |
| 23 | A movement was born that provided for the next four years the reference point for the left , and for artists and what passed for Britain 's Beats . |
| 24 | It falls to the floor , an ugly little lump of metal , and the boys sit transfixed for minutes before they eat again . |
| 25 | According to a Gwynedd County Council report the company said it is unable to tender competitively for contracts unless it has the flexibility of Sunday working . |
| 26 | I had done the score for Warren for Reds and I 'd never quite finished it , so I always felt I owed him one . ’ |
| 27 | Alright , fair enough , you accepted what we 've been saying for ages that we had to go to voluntary competitive tendering right . |
| 28 | Liza and I had wanted to go into the big shops in New Street and Corporation Street for ages but we 'd never dared to pass the attendant who stood in the doorway ready to shoo small children off . |
| 29 | And it bounced and bounced and bounced and I thought it was going on for ages but it did n't . |
| 30 | I mean we 've always got drink in the house and s and occasionally we 'll have a drink at night but sometimes we just do n't touch it for ages unless anyone comes round . |