Example sentences of "for [noun pl] that [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The memory of fire and plague , of slaughter , gaping earth and venomous snakes , and the great Moses barred from God 's land for reasons that are hard to discern and even harder to call sufficient , still haunts our minds , and the stink of those quails will not leave our nostrils . |
| 2 | But the climate changed about 65 million years ago ( perhaps exacerbated by a bombardment of meteors ) and the dinosaurs , for reasons that are still unexplained , were unable to cope with the shift . |
| 3 | However , many of these locally developed techniques have been discontinued for reasons that are discussed later in Chapter 8 . |
| 4 | But there are parents who lose control of their children most often for reasons that are entirely understandable . |
| 5 | In 1819 , when Danzig had been the provincial capital for only three years , and for reasons that are unclear , the Prussians moved the function of administrative capital to Königsberg . |
| 6 | ‘ People look for reasons that are n't there . ’ |
| 7 | Single market year — 1993 — may turn out to be a worrisome one for both stockbreeders and the book trade in the European Community , for reasons that are not entirely unrelated . |
| 8 | Therefore , it must be treated as a process with an underlying socio-political motivation , which attempts to promote uniformity and suppress variability for reasons that are considered functional . |
| 9 | In practice , prescriptions for policy implementation convey discretionary powers to field-level staff for reasons that are combinations of these four ‘ sources ’ of discretion . |
| 10 | Both stocks and production rates rise to a peak in December toward the Antarctic Convergence , and in February or March in higher latitudes , for reasons that are far from clear . |
| 11 | For reasons that are not clear the banding is absent from polar regions , but the generally ‘ granulated ’ appearance probably arises from upward convection . |
| 12 | The older way is to use the command ASSIGN A : =B : B : =A : but in todays modern MS-DOS this is discouraged for reasons that are to do with networking and device drivers . |
| 13 | The destruction of the human face is a highly emotive topic for reasons that are theological as well as psychological . |
| 14 | When , rather later , for reasons that are not understood and are the subject of much profitable speculation , the dinosaurs ( with the exception of the group of dinosaurs that we now call birds ) went extinct , they went extinct all over the world . |
| 15 | You have declined to give police details of your account for reasons that are best known to yourself and in my view the only inference I can draw from that is that you have the money at least to pay a fine . ’ |
| 16 | To tell the truth I have only hazy memories of the magazine that I took for a long time and until it ceased publication for reasons that were beyond me . |
| 17 | For reasons that were probably unconnected with wine-tasting , Dr. Prior 's subsequent entries became very sparse until , some years later , the chairman of the Board made a note of his own saying that he ‘ would be obliged if Dr. Prior would make more frequent entries in the book as to the general condition of the house and its inmates ’ . |
| 18 | He was called Titch because he was a midget with a very large head and very short legs , and Uncle for reasons that were never satisfactorily explained to William , but then , not a lot ever was . |
| 19 | Having once decried ‘ commercialism ’ in all its forms , Oldfield now embraced it : he recorded a disco song , ‘ Not Guilty ’ , and , for reasons that were not altogether clear , was photographed for the music papers posing naked as Rodin 's Thinker . |
| 20 | The exhibitionist streak that had been confined to fancy-dress parties at Virgin 's weekends away now found full public licence ; Richard Branson embarked on a sort of alternative career in fancy dress that would see him , over the years , photographed in airline captain 's uniform , as Peter Pan , Spider Man , City Gent and , on one occasion and for reasons that were never entirely clear , in the bath , wearing only bubbles and a cunningly placed newspaper . |
| 21 | Well it , it , it , it 's moving a bit in that direction , I mean I knew what their prediction was cos they kindly supplied it to me , which is why I made the point , but I mean as as you know from our proof we have a higher view of the demographic requirements in York even than that , for reasons that were amply discussed in general on on day one , to do with vacant dwellings , mortality , and I think still probably a difference in migration between us on York , which is statistical rather than environmental , but I think it is important to have that established early on that that even in the County Council 's view , and with their , as it were , doubts about the statistics which they themselves use , that er there is more need generated in York , however much it is , than York itself can accommodate , and that is of course without York city 's seven hundred addition for reducing concealed and sharing households which is not in the County Council 's figures . |
| 22 | For products that are expensive and only used sporadically an unattractive product may be chosen if it has an exceptional performance as its handling characteristics will ensure that it is only used as a last resort and not used casually when other cheaper products would suffice . |
| 23 | ‘ First , an increased environmental awareness has led customers to call for products that are energy efficient and made with environmentally friendly materials . |
| 24 | The illusion that the country was performing adequately persisted , however , well into the second half of this century — partly because the empire provided protected markets for products that were not good enough for the most advanced countries , partly because of the accident of victory in two world wars . |
| 25 | It is a knitting system that should be considered as temporary storage area for patterns that are to be knitted at this time . |
| 26 | Though the parties as parties received roughly equal treatment , the government received additional coverage as a government for activities that were ostensibly unconnected with the election campaign . |
| 27 | This Act also included the notorious Clause 28 , which prevented councils from supporting the activities of gay rights ( including in many instances AIDS hotlines and counselling services ) by outlawing any financial support for activities that were defined by the Act as promoting homosexuality . |
| 28 | As a label , Gramola is still revived from time to time for releases that are primarily designed for the local market . |
| 29 | Thus , while Corporal Weatherall and a growing force of commandos were on interminable training exercises , or standing by for operations that were cancelled before they got afloat , very few slipped the mesh of authority . |
| 30 | For it was the procedures and practices that have been at the very core of racing tradition for generations that were on trial here , and there was little realistic chance that they should have been found wanting . |