Example sentences of "[pron] is [adv] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fender say that Input 2 , which is primarily for higher gain or active guitars , provides a ‘ darker ’ sound when using a regular guitar through it . |
| 2 | In theory at least , the diameters range from 5 to 15mm ( 0.2 to 0.6in ) and lengths are around 2 metres ( 78 in ) which is enough for any kite spar . |
| 3 | The Clouds are of immense importance to astronomers , and it is partly for this reason that many of the great new telescopes are being set up south of the equator , where the Clouds are accessible . |
| 4 | It is probably for this reason that male zebra finches copulate frequently with their partners , even though a single mating is quite sufficient to fertilise all the eggs . |
| 5 | It is probably for this reason that Exeter services have not attracted the baleful glare of publicity . |
| 6 | In this corpus we find that it is very rare for an ellipsis to occur without a linguistic antecedent , and in those cases where one does , it is usually for special effect . |
| 7 | It is precisely for that reason that trust status will be a more successful means of managing the health service . |
| 8 | It is precisely for this anonymity that they were selected . |
| 9 | Even if it is only for one moment that a spasm in your face draws my attention to the intensity of your pain , a glimpse from which I flinch back into insensibility , it is during that moment that a choice between my conflicting pulls to help and to ignore will be made in fullest awareness . |
| 10 | It is perhaps for that reason that the pensions industry had been able to get away with such arrangements for so long . |
| 11 | Indeed , the author of Le débat des hérauts d'armes could state that the French nobility did not regard fighting at sea as being a noble activity : it is perhaps for this reason that naval warfare did not feature in the chronicles in the way that war on land did . |
| 12 | It is perhaps for this reason that a Code of Practice was issued by the Secretary of State for the Environment in 1981 which requires that authorities produce a minimum number of specified unit cost statistics . |
| 13 | It is perhaps for this reason that the Court of Appeal in Faccenda left open the question as to whether an employee could sell the information which was comprised in the skills acquired in the course of employment which he could not be prevented from using himself . |