Example sentences of "for it is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For it is sadly true that misuse of a desktop publishing system can actually reduce the impact of your material rather than enhance it . |
| 2 | It does not show that no experience of any sort is necessary , as indeed it could not , for it is logically impossible to substantiate universally negative statements . |
| 3 | Nor could I believe that it was the intention to bring in at a single stroke a charge to tax that would be calculated to interrupt the education and expectations of so many parents and children , for it is surely common knowledge that the provision of free or subsidised education for the children of those teaching in independent schools was part of their usual terms of employment and that the salaries paid would be wholly insufficient to meet a charge to tax based on the full fees of the school . |
| 4 | The imaginative response to historical houses , as the expression of an order that is past , thus has none of Disraeli 's optimism , for it is persistently pervaded by the sense of an order passed quite beyond recall . |
| 5 | Even more astonishing are the powers accorded to the government as a whole , for it is here that the primacy of the executive over the legislature is most clear . |
| 6 | In Woonerf-type streets cycling should be strongly encouraged , for it is here that the speed differences between cars and cycles that are so dangerous to the latter are minimised . |
| 7 | This is a pleasant town and a major road junction , for it is here that the road forks up to the pass of Encumeada across the centre of the island — and the way we will return . |
| 8 | It is these allowances which should be studied by the ICC , for it is here that the suspicion of undue leniency remains strongest . |
| 9 | For it is here that all our strength lies , the last certainty that light may survive in darkness . |
| 10 | This is not enough , for it is also necessary to ‘ think these differences in rhythm and punctuation in their foundation , in their type of articulation , displacement and torsion which harmonizes these different times with one another ’ — though it must be added that this begs the question of how such harmonization is achieved . |
| 11 | The economic world in which the family has its being is not just the market , for it is also affected by state allocation of the benefits and burdens of citizenship according to its own criteria . |
| 12 | Most commonly , mura-muras are asked to send rain , for it is well known that if one is offended he will hold up a huge bark dish to the heavens and catch all the rain on its way to earth , out of spite . |
| 13 | Give me patience , give me a little more patience , Alida thought , for it is soon coming to an end . |
| 14 | For it is clearly not enough to say that if two things are observed simultaneously in different spatial positions , then they are two , not one , even though they might be completely alike . |
| 15 | This in itself presents a powerful argument against change , for it is clearly desirable that national and EC policies should be broadly similar if only because it is less confusing to the business community . |
| 16 | Never mind , she thought , never mind , for it is n't that , she is still upset about the will and still unsure what to do . |
| 17 | This is not to be wondered at , for it is both huge and beautiful and possessed of the most breathtaking spire in all Christendom . |
| 18 | For it is both sinful and shameful that you have laid this accusation against me , for I am an old woman , and lame . |
| 19 | In this sense there is always a connection between value-standpoints and sociology , for it is when the focus on unhappiness , and its reduction , is lost that social scientists lose their way and become trapped in pseudo-scientific thinking . |
| 20 | The chapter entitled " Language and gender " is bound to seem tokenistic , despite any protestations , for it is rather unsatisfactory to produce a chapter on gender and ideology and then discuss at length two canonical male texts . |
| 21 | This is the mystery of sin which has no rational explanation , for it is ultimately and radically inexplicable . |
| 22 | Linking hands , they whispered their love for one another , and although they were kept physically apart by those old granite stones , they were in another sense brought close together by them , for it is curiously easier to give your heart away through a hole in the wall than to swear your fidelity between the sheets of a feather bed . |
| 23 | Our interpretation of the field situation therefore becomes a specific and unusual type of ‘ anthropology at home ’ , for it is not out there in the exotic or even in the backyard . |
| 24 | In consequence , police ethnography remains largely unwritten simply because it is unlikely the organization will be keen to reveal the ways this ‘ immense disorder ’ is constructed , for it is not in their nature to allow other individuals to create their classifications for them . |
| 25 | Thomas discussed the relationship between love and poetry much later in Feminine Influence on the Poet : ‘ The love-poem is not for the beloved , for it is not worthy , as it is the least thing that is given to her , and none knows this better than she unless it be the lover … . |
| 26 | For it is not clear that the generative or productive motions which ‘ cause ’ a circle really are put forward as ‘ efficient ’ causes ; Hobbes has a tendency to speak of them in ways which make it not inappropriate to think of them in terms of some notion of ‘ formal ’ cause . |
| 27 | His state of nature is not Hobbes 's , for it is not composed of individuals following their natural instincts and living in fear of each other . |
| 28 | ‘ In any case , ’ Alida id , ‘ the argument is spurious , for it is not a cheap brand of soap . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ It is not my fault , ’ she whimpered in the dark of the hall , ‘ indeed it is not my fault , and nobody can blame me , nobody can raise their voice to me , for it is not my fault . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Well , I simply can not believe that , for it is not for him to say . |