Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Provided they are not mentally impaired , and we are able to exercise tact , the truth , spoken in love , will always achieve more than saying nothing in order to ‘ keep the peace ’ , and harbouring resentments which fester in the mind and inevitably make us bad-tempered towards them for reasons they do not understand . |
| 2 | Stasis and then sudden change , which for reasons which do slightly defeat me , are called punctuational changes . |
| 3 | Though they were as a rule sparing in the use of force , this was for reasons which seem not to have included sympathy with civil disobedience . |
| 4 | This has the real hard stuff — cattle mutilations performed by aliens ( apparently , ‘ for reasons we do n't yet understand ’ , they 're also interested in cows ' bottoms ) , UFOs and AIDS , stories about he ‘ men in black ’ , CIA men from space , who drive brand new Fifties ' cars , wear trousers that do n't crease and harass people who claim to have seen UFOs . |
| 5 | He says asthma has been becoming increasingly common for the last 20 years for reasons we do n't understand . |
| 6 | Goldney , for reasons we do not know , declined the offer of the Cherokee earth and it therefore fell to Cookworthy and Champion to perfect the porcelain known as ‘ Bristol China ’ . |
| 7 | The male does sometimes mate with one of the young female helpers but this , for reasons we do not understand , never seems to result in pregnancy . |
| 8 | Perhaps , for reasons we do not understand , the patterns of interconnections in the smell-brain are under a more versatile system of genetic control , and this allowed the rapid evolution of the neocortex , facilitating the neopallial explosion . |
| 9 | His father 's favouring of Chuck had forced him to turn to her increasingly for solace , and that some unimaginable selfishness should have driven her to commit her dreadful act of desertion baffled and disturbed him deeply for reasons he did n't begin to understand . |
| 10 | OK , so her date with O'Shea had n't turned out as he 'd imagined , but the fact remained she had chosen her old college buddy over him — a fact that rankled for reasons he did n't care to examine . |
| 11 | We are not happy with the Labour resolution for reasons I indicated earlier . |
| 12 | It is also true that proceedings by way of injunction are not the only form of proceedings open to a local authority under the section ; but , unlike Mann L.J. , I am not impressed by that fact , because , in practice , for reasons I have previously given , the circumstances in which injunction proceedings may be successfully brought by a local authority are such that no other proceedings will be effective to enforce the law . |
| 13 | A few examples will give something of the flavour of the times : Even sober-minded mathematical modellers fell under the spell , as witness the mathematician J. S. Griffith who had helped Watson and Crick solve DNA back in the early 1950s , writing jointly with one of the doyens of biochemistry , Henry Mahler , and offering what they called , for reasons I have never quite understood , a ‘ DNA ticketing theory of memory ’ . |
| 14 | Her mother had her full permission to tell him so , for reasons she had bitterly and eloquently specified . |
| 15 | In fact I am more concerned about authorities which do not place children and decide by using no criteria beyond barely-concealed and crude financial ones . |
| 16 | I am talking about prisoners who do not want problems in serving their sentence ; they want to serve it in a civilised fashion , where that is possible in any prison regime . |
| 17 | I am more concerned about employers who employ only a few people and whose main criterion is the flexibility of being able to take on staff , to change their hours from time to time and , on occasions , to get them to work 60 or 70 hours a week when they are busy . |
| 18 | In the 1989 RSC survey 14 per cent of male respondents and 13 per cent of women respondents worked for employers who had officially recognised job sharing schemes . |
| 19 | In making recommendations , to take into account the need not to increase calls on teachers ' and pupils ' time for activities which do not directly promote learning , and to limit costs . |
| 20 | Some topics , such as profit accountability and taxation would , however , need to be addressed differently for activities which vary greatly from the type assumed here . |
| 21 | Some doctors have even put their patients through operations they did n't need . |
| 22 | Changes in consumer demand can be expected as products which rely heavily on water in their production process increase in price . |
| 23 | Similarly , we may argue that Campbell 's political strategy is founded in a view of the realities of international relations between states which does not , for example , reflect the fact that the usual benefits of legal process are not immediately obvious to individual states , particularly where nuclear weapons are concerned . |
| 24 | For hours I walked up and down in my flat . |
| 25 | For homeowners who do not have a south facing garden , there are other equally favourable aspects for the siting of conservatories . |
| 26 | Lionel Luyt told me that John quickly tagged on to him when they met during those Johannesburg seasons , and was eager for discussions which went on , after performances , into the small hours . |
| 27 | British Equestrian Insurance Brokers Limited have had policies available for 15 years for riders who do not own horses as well as those who do . |
| 28 | It is a personal agreement between shareholders which does not fetter the company in the exercise of its statutory powers . |
| 29 | Women in better paid jobs can negotiate better conditions especially for nannies who live in . |
| 30 | Something about skills you know like telephone technique you know how can you measure somebody 's telephone technique ? |