Example sentences of "for [num] thing [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For one thing they 've got better things to do with their time . |
| 2 | For one thing they were a rural party in an urban environment . |
| 3 | For one thing they are impossible to reach now and that is n't the way it has to be , it 's just the way it always is . |
| 4 | For one thing they are not really cultivated , mostly because the trees take a long time to bear fruit and even then are not very prolific . |
| 5 | For one thing they arranged for continuity of care , before , during and after the birth . |
| 6 | For one thing they 'd never know . |
| 7 | For one thing they are all one family , the offspring of a single pair of adults . |
| 8 | For one thing they 're often in very tiny print . |
| 9 | For one thing they think it 's unlucky . |
| 10 | For one thing we do n't know what they 'd charge , and for another they might not understand about the Time Fire . |
| 11 | ‘ For one thing we 've hardly seen Tara and , for another , we do n't know what kind of spells and enchantments they might have strewn about . ’ |
| 12 | For one thing we 've all started peeing in the river again . |
| 13 | Well for one thing we have got really have quite a few school teachers now who just could n't get off during How many school teachers do we have Agnes ? |
| 14 | For one thing it has prompted a full-scale review of all the carving at Hampton Court and given the restorers the opportunity to reverse years of general neglect . |
| 15 | For one thing it overlooks God 's clear part in the extraordinary events that they witnessed the previous day . |
| 16 | I think the reason the British like it so much is for one thing it is normally sunny , there are some shots outside when it is rainy and overcast , but it comes across as bright and cheerful and it is an ideal sort of world . |
| 17 | For one thing it increases the length of the margin , allowing the animal to admit more food per unit of length . |
| 18 | For one thing it was not an air field but a large old house right in the centre of Huntingdon , a small market town about twenty miles west of Cambridge . |
| 19 | For one thing it is by no means easy to recognise an official curriculum and for another it is very easy to confuse a government 's policy , a process which is growing and evolving , with static written evidence which may be out of date and even recognised as such . |
| 20 | For one thing it is for the Holy Spirit to tell us in that hour what we are to say , and for another thing the people we prove to be in that hour will be determined , not by our thinking about that hour , but by our thinking and living in this hour . |
| 21 | For one thing it is devoid of the relentless lilt and terminological tedium of the professional programme writer . |
| 22 | For one thing it is notoriously elastic , and not entirely passive . |
| 23 | For one thing it is rare for a human to suffer total loss of the visual cortex without extensive damage to the rest of the brain that confounds interpretation of the results . |
| 24 | For one thing it is available only for the Sparcstation 10 , for another it will be shipping free with the machines from next spring . |
| 25 | For one thing it seems that Ho 's reply , via Saigon , was held up deliberately by the French authorities so that it was not received in Paris until after the war had begun . |
| 26 | For one thing it is too small ; for another it is too directly dependent on the state institutions which pay its wages . |
| 27 | For one thing it was an opportunity , in a purely objective , journalistic sense , to expose the hypocrisy of a magazine that , to Branson 's mind , ‘ had always purported to be so perfect itself while having a go at everybody else ’ . |
| 28 | For one thing it was impossible to say , and for another it would be a deplorable waste of time . |
| 29 | For one thing it was not as easily won as the trust of adults , or children or animals . |
| 30 | For one thing it gives me the opportunity to write to you , and also I must have time to draw breath and come to terms with this astounding piece of good fortune that has befallen me . |