Example sentences of "[that] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The easy way to remember it is that for a ‘ lesser ’ number of degrees , you turn ‘ left ’ , e.g. turning from 350° to 320° is turning to a lesser number and therefore you turn left . |
| 2 | The thing about sex , thought Jay , apart from everything else , is that for a few , for many , for countless seconds and sometimes glorious minutes , you stop thinking . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , and the reason we 've got no morals is that for a long time ( 150 years ) we 've been at a loose end . ' |
| 4 | The power of the Establishment came not from the fact that a few dozen people imposed their will on the rest of us , but from the fact that for a long time we felt it right that the opinions of such people should have respectful attention paid to them . |
| 5 | When the Constituent Assembly was dissolved after the 1917 Revolution , and the Bolsheviks ' Land Decree had stolen the main plank of the Socialist Revolutionaries ' platform , Siberian and Black-Earth peasants alike failed to give any further support to their still loyal party , despite the fact that for a period an SR-dominated Directory prevailed in eastern Russia . |
| 6 | But Hitler made world Christianity something that for a moment even people in the pews could see as an expression of peace , and amity , and human rights , and the moral law in politics . |
| 7 | The fatal , fateful thing was that for a century the device appeared to work : Canada felt and behaved as if it was still part of the empire . |
| 8 | We watched that for a bit , then took the first tube of the day round to a friend 's place for a while . |
| 9 | On the other hand all modern anthropologists and archaeologists would agree with the view that for a very long period of history mankind has existed solely by hunting , fishing , and gathering , and that such a technological stage always precedes domestication of plants and animals . |
| 10 | You see we think that for a woman Sharam ( shame or shyness ) itself is honour . |
| 11 | Wexford waited patiently , for he guessed that for a moment the man was totally unable to speak . |
| 12 | In a very timely book , Israel 's Fateful Decisions , published shortly before the Intifada broke out , the Israeli scholar , General Yehoshavat Harkabi , wrote that for a settlement to be possible , both sides must first renounce their respective dreams or ‘ grand designs ’ — for the Zionists , the ‘ redemption ’ of all the Land of Israel , for the Palestinians , the ‘ liberation ’ of all the territory that once was theirs — and thereby end what he calls the absolute , ‘ existential ’ nature of the struggle . |
| 13 | He ponder that for a moment , and says : ‘ That right ? ’ |
| 14 | It is a fact that for a time last year , there were no statements at all being issued about Northern Ireland by the Labour Party headquarters . |
| 15 | The selection process is not unlike that for a giant multinational corporation , and those who win through have some similarities to corporate executives . |
| 16 | In some of his tracts he is outspokenly hostile to philosophy as mother of heresy , strident in his insistence that for a true believer everything is decided by the authority of the apostolic rule of faith and scripture so that further enquiries are superfluous . |
| 17 | A similar state of affairs had existed only at the very dawn of coinage when , in a number of areas including Asia Minor or Athens , a variety of personal designs had appeared , perhaps implying that for a short time after its inception coinage was sometimes produced on the authority of prominent individuals rather than of the state . |
| 18 | These changes show how financial pressures brought about the collapse of the early Roman coinage system ; so much so that it seems that for a time the Roman state had to fight the war on credit given by some of its citizens . |
| 19 | I do take into account that for a lot of people , pop artists are role models so you have to be careful about what you are doing . |
| 20 | It follows that for a shape to assume constancy it must be closed and possess a skin , or comprehensible boundary . |
| 21 | It is certainly true that for a few crucial generations in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , the influence of Spanish Jesuits on the never-very-alert minds of the Habsburg emperors was decisive . |
| 22 | Our usual joke is that for a Hungarian novelist to get published and widely read , he has first to be sent to prison . |
| 23 | The bishop declared that for a clerk in holy orders to sit as a justice in eyre for forest pleas was contrary to the canons of the Church , and rendered him ineligible for an office involving the cure of souls . |
| 24 | Some say it is good for the Prime Minister to mix with the crowd and others that for a Prime Minister it is less than dignified . |
| 25 | I forgot that for a while during the '80s but I 'm back now , ’ Starr said . |
| 26 | Miss Picon and her husband were so profoundly affected by their experiences that for a long time after their return to New York they were unable to work . |
| 27 | ‘ I never doubted that for a moment , ’ he replied in an extremely charming , yet at the same time insolent , tone . |
| 28 | Make-up artist Barbara Daly says that for a ‘ lipstick wardrobe ’ try : a pinky/brown ( this will go with anything ) ; a sheer mid-apricot to match warm tones ; a paprika/copper red ( as opposed to scarlet ) to wear with black , red , white and navy : and a bright pink which goes brilliantly with red . |
| 29 | Although in the sixth century the Byzantine Emperor Justinian 's great generals Belisarius and Narses succeeded in reconquering much of the west , so that for a time the Mediterranean again became a Roman lake , in the following century Europe faced a dangerous new enemy . |
| 30 | The support facilities on shore for a 200-machine 600 MW cluster of wind generators would be around £25 million while transmission costs were estimated at four times that for a conventional 600 MW power station ( all at mid-1979 prices ) . |