Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , actors inherit collective ways of seeing the world , languages for describing it , and institutions for organizing it . |
| 2 | Talking about flying the horses was there special preparation for flying them ? |
| 3 | Teachers need not be afraid of explaining to pupils their reasons for wanting them to carry out a certain piece of investigatory work . |
| 4 | He obviously had his own reasons for wanting you to believe he owned Seawitch . |
| 5 | Only Lieutenant Cherry , my husband , and Leading Seaman Webster were left of that crew , as they had good reasons for leaving her . |
| 6 | The core of Plant 's argument is a careful statement of the case for social citizenship and the reasons for preferring it to the philosophy of the New Right . |
| 7 | Repetition of words can create the same sort of chain as pronouns , and there are sometimes good reasons for preferring it . |
| 8 | There was something awry with directors ' reasons for casting him and something unnourishing in the West End audiences ' response , but he smothered the knowledge of it . |
| 9 | We submit our CVs with a joint covering letter explaining about job sharing , our reasons for choosing it , and how we would apply it to the advertised post . |
| 10 | plans for a new business , including your reasons for setting it up , the relevant experience of those involved ; |
| 11 | It is the Government 's view that the Commission should be thinking of ways of saving taxpayers ' money , not justifying fresh reasons for expending it . |
| 12 | Kermode has set out his reasons for refusing it in Essays on Fiction , and Lodge has remarked , ‘ To open a book or article by … |
| 13 | I determined to spend the first part of my prison leisure working out my reasons for knowing I was right . |
| 14 | Long ago , in the heyday of Cambridge English , Richards was making a similar distinction between the ‘ critical ’ and the ‘ technical ’ : ‘ All remarks as to the ways and means by which experiences arise or are brought about are technical , but critical remarks are about the values of experiences and the reasons for regarding them as valuable , or not valuable . ’ |
| 15 | But they could still be summoned to appear in court to answer the allegations of their creditor , to admit or give good reasons for disclaiming them — if the sum involved was less than £5,000 in a county court , if more in the High Court . |
| 16 | ‘ Your reasons for telephoning me . |
| 17 | Barrington , nevertheless , has some good reasons for believing it . |
| 18 | We wondered about Islamic Jihad 's reasons for splitting us up again , keeping the Brits and the Yanks separate . |
| 19 | If he acts solely from self-interest , then there are good reasons for expecting him not to participate in the democratic process . |
| 20 | Better leave showing me all the good reasons for hanging you out of hand . |
| 21 | This is one of the more important , though too seldom stated , reasons for supporting them tomorrow . |
| 22 | There are , indeed , impressive reasons for characterising it as such , but only the most committed proponent of this view would wish to deny that the defence effort and the scientific-technological base on which it rests can be entirely insulated from the problems we have surveyed here . |
| 23 | I 've got family reasons for hating him . |
| 24 | He said that Habash had been allowed to leave because there were no legal reasons for holding him . |
| 25 | Either the directive or the reasons for holding it to be binding should be counted but not both . |
| 26 | At the grassroots , health initiatives and programmes are seen as ways to strengthen organizations rather than reasons for building them . |
| 27 | During his absence Luce had had time to think about his reasons for bringing her here . |
| 28 | There are good reasons for distinguishing it both from the level of the meanings of expressions , as will become apparent later in the text ( see in particular Chapter 6 ) , and from whatever more general non-linguistic level of mental activity has to take responsibility for human perception of external phenomena ; a sufficient reason is that speakers of the language are well aware that they can seek to identify one and the same entity or property by using the meanings of various different expressions : Examples like ( 22 ) are familiarly put forward as showing the distinction between meaning and reference ; they may serve that purpose but that is quite a different matter . |
| 29 | It was not a book that he had packed when leaving London : he had bought it a day or two earlier in Inverness , and to Boswell , years later , he gave , not unmemorably , his reasons for buying it at all : ‘ Why , Sir , if you are to have but one book with you upon a journey , let it be a book of science . |
| 30 | A large , ungainly and abrasive man , he was not the sort of material to make the grade in the SAS in the normal way , but Stirling obviously had his reasons for taking him on . |