Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [pron] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here their superiors criticise them for failing after they have been given such brilliant training . |
| 2 | If the police can exploit the technique for measuring the speed of road hogs , dare we hope to find that bats use it for measuring the speed of insect prey ? |
| 3 | If Modernists criticise me for copying the old , I tell them it takes a lifetime to do it well . |
| 4 | Some families take it for granted that the elderly are the natural responsibility of the unattached , but this is not so . |
| 5 | Spaniards respect her for keeping her schoolteacher 's job for as long as possible . |
| 6 | Fundamentalists execrate someone for writing a book that they have n't read , and a famous novelist has to go into hiding for fear of his life . |
| 7 | ‘ If your friends ’ mothers despise me for working in a supermarket , then they are to be pitied . |
| 8 | Opponents condemn it for making profit from punishment . |
| 9 | It would have suited his purposes admirably well to have had the police arrest them for responding to his antagonism . |
| 10 | Nor will future researchers thank us for leaving them a vast amount of dross which makes the location and comprehension of useful material more difficult . |
| 11 | In ecology the Germans take it for granted that they are more ecology-minded than anyone else , and that they have a special sensitivity for this too . |
| 12 | The reason why there 's so much space above our heads here is simple : the climate controllers use it for inducing weather conditions for the whole of Arcady . ’ |
| 13 | Folks use them for making nature films ; bluetits in their nestboxes , badgers in their sets , intruders at the door . |
| 14 | Because social anthropologists take it for granted ( sometimes mistakenly ) that the distinction between true-kin and affines is of absolutely central importance they expect to find that the behaviour that is appropriate between affines will be a kind of coded inversion of the behaviour that is appropriate between true-kin . |
| 15 | When we say that a child enjoys the security of a familiar story structure , what tools have we for analysing that structure ? |