Example sentences of "be excused for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First-buyers can be excused for favouring discounts and cheap mortgages , because they have no existing place to unload . |
| 2 | Someone from a different culture , or world , visiting our society could be excused for thinking that crime was a basic , ever-present feature of our everyday lives . |
| 3 | You might be excused for thinking , at first sight , that the lamprey is a true fish . |
| 4 | AS the Chancellor prepares for his budget next month and contemplates the unenviable situation in which he finds himself , he might be excused for thinking that it might have been better to move last September . |
| 5 | AS the Chancellor prepares for his budget next month and contemplates the unenviable situation in which he finds himself , he might be excused for thinking that it might have been better to move last September . |
| 6 | Most of us clinging to our recently lost life style can be excused for hunting an acceptable substitute for the ‘ real McCoy ’ . |
| 7 | D'Indy may be excused for missing the point of Rameau 's ‘ tied ’ and slurred crotchets : only in our own time has it been realised that these denote the kind of tremolo recently studied by Stewart Carter . |
| 8 | One might be excused for wondering what the aged poet really believed . |
| 9 | This year 's theme , in the year of the Columbus commemorations , presented some dealers with difficulties , but , as one observed , ‘ Strictly speaking , not much was American in patronage before 1776 , so we may be excused for stretching the definition ’ . |
| 10 | IT WAS N'T a record but that grand Heriot 's FP hooker of yesteryear , Bob Tollervey , who was 16 times reserve for Scotland without ever winning a cap , could be excused for feeling that he was born at the wrong time . |
| 11 | Not all child-beating amounts to deliberate cruelty ( although much which is pardoned has a suspicious streak in it ! ) and a parent may in some circumstances be excused for hitting out . |
| 12 | For instance , someone contemplating a sentence like the following ( from an issue of Women 's Journal ) might be excused for suspecting that so-called ‘ natural gender ’ is natural only if one happens to be male : |
| 13 | Admittedly , explaining their achievements is not part of Althusser 's project , and he might therefore be excused for failing to indicate the specific historical conjuncture from which Marxism arose . |
| 14 | If forced to answer the question ‘ is firmware hardware or software ? ’ , you would be excused for responding with a helpless ‘ yes ’ . |
| 15 | The cynic might be excused for observing that although these ideals should be met , they are impossible to realise . |