Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] for do " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one group who placed ( i ) after ( e ) and ( k ) had specific reasons for doing so , although they felt unhappy about the overall structure of their narrative . |
| 2 | They invent strange reasons for doing so , saying that it has used anti-competitive practices . |
| 3 | Nor are subjective meanings or rational choices independent of public social rules for doing the right or rational thing . |
| 4 | Clients must be notified of major changes in the membership of a firm , though this rule does not compel a firm with more than a few partners to incur the expense of notifying all its clients every time a partner retires or joins , though there may , of course , be good commercial reasons for doing just that . |
| 5 | Other principles accepted by the declaration were : i ) that the polluter should pay for the cost of the clean-up ; ii ) that environmental damage should be guarded against even if there were no apparent scientific reasons for doing so — the " precautionary principle " ; iii ) that women have " a vital role in environmental management and development " ; and iv ) that , while nations have a right to exploit their own resources , they must not damage the environments of other states . |
| 6 | ‘ There will be a few candidates for doing the same thing in this part of the world if he gets away with it , ’ one Welsh international said , ‘ and I for one will be very interested to see how it develops . |
| 7 | I think that the Quad X-Amp is an amazing piece of gear , but it 's unbelievably hard to sum up — one of the main reasons being the lack of any acceptable criteria for doing so . |
| 8 | There are two principal reasons for doing text recognition . |
| 9 | The jewellery tycoon Gerald Ratner has been banned from driving for three weeks for doing more than a hundred miles an hour on the motorway . |
| 10 | Why Martha transferred the money before she put her apron on I do n't know — I suppose it 's just that everyone has their own little routines for doing things . |
| 11 | ‘ I have many reasons for doing it , the principal among them quite simply being to ensure that you never get your hands on my sister . |
| 12 | But the law has never felt obliged to follow such rational simplicity if there are good reasons for doing otherwise . |
| 13 | The prevalence of the idea of the Second World War as a ‘ good war ’ in Anglo-American culture makes it very hard to appreciate that those who tried to prevent it had good reasons for doing so . |
| 14 | You will find , unless there are very good reasons for doing otherwise , that here you will find it difficult to manage if you have as many as eight suspects , for no longer can your suspects be mere plaster figures . |
| 15 | When you 're presenting plans , stick to the point — two good reasons for doing something are better than ten because your last reason is probably the weakest , so can be attacked and used as an excuse for a refusal . |
| 16 | That 's not unusual , because I quite often find that one partner 's not working and therefore they 're not using up their tax allowance so at retirement or before , I can move money into their name , and there are good reasons for doing that . |
| 17 | And there are good international precedents for doing it . |
| 18 | So I could write out a cheque saying paid Carl sixty pounds for doing my car . |
| 19 | I am not slow to sing the praises of the city of Nottingham , and there are good grounds for doing so . |
| 20 | ( 3B ) A person shall not be guilty of an offence under subsection ( 3A ) above if he proves that he had reasonable grounds for doing the acts or withdrawing or withholding the services in question . |
| 21 | ( 8 ) In proceedings to enforce a liability arising by virtue of subsection ( 3 ) above , it shall be a defence for the defendant to prove that he believed , and had reasonable cause to believe — ( a ) that the residential occupier had ceased to reside in the premises in question at the time when he was deprived of occupation as mentioned in subsection ( 1 ) above or , as the case may be , when the attempt was made or the acts were done as a result of which he gave up his occupation of those premises ; or ( b ) that , where the liability would otherwise arise by virtue only of the doing of acts or the withdrawal or withholding of services , he had reasonable grounds for doing the acts or withdrawing or withholding the services in question . |
| 22 | During and after this resource allocation planning , there will be pressure for more projects to be undertaken and some persuasive reasons for doing so will be given . |
| 23 | Tax-efficient methods for doing so include : ( i ) retirement relief ; ( ii ) the new " relief for entrepreneurs " provided for in the 1993 Finance Act ; ( iii ) a buy-in of shares by the company — see 5.3.1 ; ( iv ) a share for debenture exchange — see 5.2.4 ; ( v ) disposals by non-UK resident trusts which are not caught by the Sch 5 TCGA 1992 regime — this is dealt with in 4.6.4 and 5.2.2 below . |
| 24 | Again , Eliot found artistic incitements for doing this . |
| 25 | The actual phasing out of CFCs would begin in the year 2006 , and under the terms of the protocol India would have to be compensated by some 35 billion rupees for doing so . |
| 26 | There are very full instructions for doing this on pages 125 to 132 in the instruction book . |
| 27 | These would subsequently be tried out and evaluated in the classroom , the teacher having been given a set of possible procedures for doing this . |
| 28 | The most important thing I learnt was that the lawyer 's job in local government is to help get things done rather than provide elegant reasons for doing nothing . |
| 29 | Gets twenty five pounds for doing that . |
| 30 | get paid twenty five pounds for doing this , it 's a |