Example sentences of "for it [be] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But most particularly we are concerned with the way in which learners and environments interact , for it is in that interaction that we , as parents and teachers , can best help children to realize their linguistic and intellectual potential by adopting a conversational style that maximises their opportunities for learning . |
| 2 | That realisation is a product of the power of rational thought which came to the emerging ‘ human' ’ being in the course of the evolutionary process , for it is in remote retrospect that man can now see that the division of the first cell was a ‘ good ’ event , and had to be defined as such for the unanswerable reason that it could not have been anything else , otherwise there was nothing that could be defined as the origin of ‘ good ’ that was not dependent on dogma and superstition . |
| 3 | for it is in secondary education , and in the transition from secondary education to the next stage , that we are being asked to admit the failure of the system , whether this is measured by parental dissatisfaction or by the number of school and university leavers who do not satisfy their potential employers . |
| 4 | Ideally , it is necessary to have a large series of fairly complete skeletons of one particular ethnic group , for it is in most cases only by noting the variability in the collection that any degree of certainty in sexing can be achieved . |
| 5 | More than that , the abandonment of syllabic metre means losing the principal stylistic character , the distinctive " key " of the Odes , for it is in metrical subtlety that Horace finds , and recommends to his reader , what Yeats has called " the fascination of what 's difficult " ; and it is out of that difficulty that the delicate , devious style of these lyrics uniquely flowers . |
| 6 | There must have been rumours of the dastardly deed at the hall as early as 1578 , for it was in that year that Sir Henry Knyvett ( another of Darrel 's antagonists ) wrote a letter to Sir John at Longleat , asking him to search out Mr Bonham and to enquire how many children his sister had and what had become of them . |
| 7 | For it was in such fashion that lovers talked , Rosa knew , from the Mass on certain feast days : King Solomon became languid with love as he searched up and down for his beloved , whose breasts were like a young doe and her belly a heap of wheat . |