Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are Windsors , Mountbattens , Brittans , Weidenfeld , etc who have changed their names for reasons well known . |
| 2 | Benefits are withheld for reasons indirectly related at best to the activity in question . |
| 3 | For reasons best known to the fuel companies , the Gulf crisis never turned into an oil crisis , although petrol prices generally leap up and down quicker than a Tory backbencher during a Neil Kinnock speech if a dealer on the Amsterdam spot market so much as sneezes over his computer screen . |
| 4 | For reasons best known to themselves . |
| 5 | People , for reasons best known to themselves , regularly push wardrobes or pull pianos up the motorway that calls itself the tourist path . |
| 6 | Ramprakash , for reasons best known to himself , treated a Cambridge batsman , Marcus Wight , to a stream of verbal abuse and then had a stand-up row with his own captain , John Emburey , which allegedly continued later . |
| 7 | Four years later , like so many of his generation , he was sucked into the tragically wasteful conflict of the First World War , serving — for reasons best known to himself — as a soldier in the Canadian Army . |
| 8 | More irritatingly , for reasons best known to his ego , the last two untitled tracks are situated ten minutes into the abyss after the last listed track of the album . |
| 9 | For reasons best known to himself Halzman , the senior sonar operator , preferred not to discuss it over an open line . |
| 10 | This ex-rugger international has , for reasons best known to himself , tired of rambling on about the oval ball game ; as a consequence he has taken to bespattering the media with stories about his allegedly ‘ sexy ’ life and times in terms which strive risibly to emulate the writings of the greatest rock journalist in the world — just like practically everyone else in the media has been muscling in on my territory in recent times . |
| 11 | Obviously , in both of the instant cases the parties had chosen , for reasons best known to themselves , not to adduce any extra evidence of the sort provided by the tapes . |
| 12 | As you do n't seem to be responding to telegrams for reasons best known to yourself , I am writing to say that I am not coming home immediately . |
| 13 | There seems no point in saying that I love you in spite of everything because that only seems to irritate you for reasons best known to yourself and which you choose neither to explain nor comment on . |
| 14 | For reasons best known to himself Carr kicked the legs from under Murray , leaving referee Brian White with no option but to order him off . |
| 15 | For reasons best known to the RAAF at the time , they started cutting back on pilots and offered his course a transfer to the RAF . |
| 16 | For reasons best known to themselves , they attached great importance to the idiot 's efforts to fill his useless bath ( I think it was B ) and it seemed vital to their purpose that I too become involved with the whole farcical business and , what 's more , come up with some sort of an answer . |
| 17 | Or , if the court follows Smith v. Jones , then A will be liable , but if it follows Robinson v. Edwards , which is to be preferred for reasons previously given , then A will not be liable . |
| 18 | If the Dani are being killed simply to make space for settlers from Java then it is appalling , and for reasons previously advanced on behalf of the Ethiopian tribeswoman . |
| 19 | Huntingford confirmed on 14 March 1788 that ( for reasons not given ) he had resigned the post of secretary , being succeeded on 14 April by Mr Raggett , another attorney of Odiham . |
| 20 | Although the damaging acts are very similar , football fans are ‘ deviants ’ whilst students , for reasons not made explicit , are somehow excused . |
| 21 | A psychological rationalization could be said to be a justification for a position , which is held for reasons not related to the justification . |
| 22 | For reasons already stated , it is doubtful if any CGT would be assessed . |
| 23 | As the island subsided the reef would grow upwards and outwards at the edges , the only places where growth is active for reasons already stated , while the dead part of the reef between the island and the front of the reef would be flooded . |
| 24 | Not accepted , for reasons already given . |
| 25 | To have surrendered all power over the issue of her coinage is significant enough , for reasons already argued ; to have done so for good must constitute the act of transfer of sovereignty by the British Parliament to another power . |
| 26 | Florey , for reasons already mentioned and for others , had no wish to deal with the press . |
| 27 | Soil erosion is one of its many contradictions , and for reasons amply discussed in this book , it is one of the most diffuse and complex areas of analysis . |
| 28 | Sweden has gone anti-nuclear in its power-generating policy and consequently vast hydro-power stations have been built in the northern lake areas for reasons better known to themselves , the Swedes made no provision for salmon runs so the huge lakes are now devoid of fish and the Lapps have left . |
| 29 | For instance , it would surely seem reasonable to suggest that a theory that anticipates and leads to the discovery of new phenomena , in the way Clerk Maxwell 's theory led to the discovery of radio waves , is more worthy of merit and more justifiable than a law or theory devised to account for phenomena already known and not leading to the discovery of new ones . |
| 30 | It might be thought that in a reign which saw bitter struggles between king and nobles the church , if astutely led , could gain some significant concessions in exchange for support carefully distributed . |