Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [noun pl] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the Phnom Penh government also has its reasons for favouring instability . |
| 2 | This necessity of the pace of social and industrial change has its implications for teaching method : the student must increasingly develop and practise the skills of enquiry and discovery , in order to experience the confidence and pleasure of it and to be able to make fullest use of " recurrent education " possibilities and requirements in later life . |
| 3 | ICI also recognises its responsibilities for helping in community education . |
| 4 | As he says to one of their tools : When Buckingham presents his credentials for deceiving the London citizens it is in the same theatrical-Machiavellian terms as Richard : But Buckingham himself is deceived , as we realized long ago in the flurry of insincere praise that Richard heaped upon him : Buckingham should have known that such effusiveness from a hypocrite can only bode ill . |
| 5 | Having been disinherited by his father he finds employment at a fashionable hairdresser 's which gives him materials for composing ‘ those brilliant efforts of genius , his fashionable novels ’ . |
| 6 | Polybius gives his reasons for reporting the figures : " so that it may appear from actual facts what a great power it was that Hannibal ventured to attack , and how mighty was that empire boldly confronting which he came so near his purpose as to bring great disasters on Rome " ( 2.24.1 ) . |
| 7 | Allan Fromme , a clinical psychologist and therapist , gives his reasons for believing that persistent , excessive punishment is a policy of defeatism : |
| 8 | ‘ I had not worked for a few months so I was ready to do something , ’ is how he explains his reasons for doing it . |
| 9 | YOUR profile writer rebukes our politicians for neglecting the people 's wishes in the matter of hanging . |
| 10 | Geoff Hamilton takes a close-up look at some mini-vegetables that are currently being developed by Horticulture Research International , whilst Pippa Greenwood continues her plans for planting a sloping garden ; |
| 11 | ECHO LOGIC UNVEILS ITS TOOLS FOR CONVERTING MAC APPLICATIONS TO RUN ON POWERPC |