Example sentences of "for [noun pl] [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For reasons nobody knows , they even included beans among prohibited foods . |
| 2 | Chatterbox is a four-part course for beginners which aims to develop confidence in English through enjoyment of the learning process . |
| 3 | Nationwide Surveyors now offers Homecheck , a report for homeowners which shows what maintenance and repairs are needed — in order of priority . |
| 4 | Oh I have n't been to the cinema for ages it seems . |
| 5 | The beauty o' cricket — I 'ope yer agrees with me , gentlemen — is the team spirit what it revokes and the goodwill and respeck for opponents what perculates the game , as represented ‘ ere today as we — you — share them scones together . ’ |
| 6 | For centuries it has been a buttress against the onslaught of Chaos from the wastes to the north . |
| 7 | Offenders who are mentally disordered suffer the stigma of being labelled as both ‘ mad ’ and ‘ bad ’ , although for centuries it has been recognized that some people have diminished responsibility for their actions as a result of mental abnormality and that punishment and retribution , usually demanded by society of someone who has committed a crime , should be dispensed with in favour of providing humane care and treatment . |
| 8 | ‘ For centuries he has lived close to calamity : drought and flood threaten his crops and beasts ; diseases , infertility and death afflict his wife and children ; ghosts disturb his peace . |
| 9 | For centuries he has been looked upon as a sex maniac whose only interest in kittens is to kill them if he gets half a chance . |
| 10 | It is possible and convenient to select a perspective on the scope , associations and labels for subjects which coincides with the way in which those subjects are handled in the literature . |
| 11 | You see , for months he 's been living on a diet of Minpins , and a thousand Minpins is not even a snack for him . |
| 12 | For enthusiasts it brings motoring craftsmanship within more affordable range . |
| 13 | The figures for the three months to the end of November indicate that the policy of high interest rates is beginning to have an impact in slowing down the across-the-board demand for imports which has set Britain on course for a worst ever annual trade deficit . |
| 14 | For decades he has ditched , diked and drained the edges of the Everglades until all that is left is a barely viable core . |
| 15 | But for decades it 's been used as a giant dustbin . |
| 16 | He 's won several awards for his radio work and has been praised by top journalists for documentaries he 's come up with for Radio One . |
| 17 | With an airport between Cheltenham and Gloucester running a scheduled service to Southern ireland for businessmen it 's got to be a bit of a bonus , backed up by the rugby at the weekend so that does help . |
| 18 | Business Objects SA , a French software house that markets an object-oriented data access tool for end-users which bypasses SQL , will be launching itself onto the UK market next Wednesday . |
| 19 | Patrick Standun 's book ‘ Lovers ’ has on its cover a priest and a semi-naked woman in bed and it opens with a character using a sock for purposes he claims he learned from ‘ The Dark ’ . |
| 20 | HOLY Week is a time when many people look around for devotional reading , and I suppose we should be grateful to the Observer for drawing attention to a ‘ dirty ’ book on sex for Catholics which has been written by the 30-year-old retiring editor of the Catholic Herald and a friend . |
| 21 | If I just read out what I was going to suggest Simon described the new system for approvals it goes something like erm , sorry it 's 9.9 , all approvals are recorded on research approval forms full stop . |
| 22 | When in Colossians 1:9ff Paul prays for Christians he has never met , his first request is that the Spirit would give them understanding of the Lord 's will for their lives ; then , that they should live their lives in accordance with that will by pleasing the Lord in everything ; then , that they should increase in their knowledge of God ; and finally , that they should be strengthened with all might according to the measure of his glorious power which should result for them as it did for Christ , not in arrogance but in patience and longsuffering . |
| 23 | For years there has been talk of building a road and railway along the shore to link Aswan with Wadi Halfa , the first town inside Sudan . |
| 24 | An elderly lady , a writer of crime-stories , was featured ; for years she has taken regular night walks , striding out for miles through the city of London , observant of everything around her . |
| 25 | For years she has been complaining ‘ I never see anything of you , darling ’ and ‘ Why ca n't you spend a little more time with the family ? ’ — so naturally he expects her to be delighted to have him at home . |
| 26 | I 'll er for years she 's just come back and she 's I said I want . |
| 27 | I told him we were simply adapting the phrase from the social security regulations , where for years it has worked perfectly satisfactorily in deciding whether or not a worker should get benefit if he is laid off at another workplace from the one where a dispute is taking place . |
| 28 | For years it has not been clear exactly what the Tate is . |
| 29 | The Medicines Control Agency may not be entirely blameless in this as for years it has tolerated the marketing of other nicotine containing products of unproved value or quality without licence . |
| 30 | For years he keeps the kid hidden away like the greatest secret in the galaxy , and now he 's showing him off for everybody to see . |