Example sentences of "for [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 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | For hours I walked up and down in my flat . |
| 19 | For homeowners who do not have a south facing garden , there are other equally favourable aspects for the siting of conservatories . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Women in better paid jobs can negotiate better conditions especially for nannies who live in . |
| 23 | Mary Stocks later wrote that ‘ this was a solemn thought for opponents who had formerly visualized family allowances as a threat to the wage earner 's incentive … it was her [ Eleanor Rathbone 's ] turn to talk of economic incentive now ’ . |
| 24 | It is also empowering for groups who have long been powerless , downgraded , humiliated , patronised , deskilled and diminished to discover the strength of concerted action for themselves and on their own behalf . |
| 25 | A benign analysis of black psychology is usually reserved for characteristics which have relatively low status within psychology : for school students ' high self-esteem , for instance , rather than their achievement motivation ; or for supportive family and social relationships . |
| 26 | A clause excluding liability for " consequential loss " has been held not to exclude liability for losses which arise directly and naturally from a breach of contract , under the first head of Hadley v Baxendale ( 1859 ) 9 Ex 341 . |
| 27 | R.L. Soale 's ‘ Peace Perfect Peace ’ ( above ) , is a more typical entry to the marquetry classes , and won the Jack Fletcher Trophy for the best piece in the Secondary category , for marquetarians who have never won an award . |
| 28 | Third party test facilities are another option for manufacturers which do not want to invest in their own facilities . |
| 29 | The impression of IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and their ilk lining up like lambs to the slaughter may seem hard to credit for customers that have been driven to accept very hard bargains , but that is what appears to be happening with this Gadarene rush by the major manufacturers to get into the facilities management business in the US : we understand that many of the savings and loans , banks and securities houses that have gratefully accepted offers by the majors to run their data processing operations for them has little to do with saving money over the term of the contract , much to do with their urgent need for cash upfront to repair their ravaged balance sheets — the key attraction of the deals being the money paid at the start of the contract for the data processing facilities ; if the customers are in that much need of cash , chances are that many of them wo n't be around in five or seven years ' time , so that having spent good money for computers they do n't need , the facilities managers will be left with idle installations and contracts with no residual value . |
| 30 | Of course we want to generate a lot of sales and to broaden the market for fiction with our customers , but the whole point of the promotion is to widen the market for authors who have n't previously broken through . |