Example sentences of "for [num] thing it " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | For one thing it overlooks God 's clear part in the extraordinary events that they witnessed the previous day . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | For one thing it increases the length of the margin , allowing the animal to admit more food per unit of length . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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to confuse a government 's policy , a process which is growing and evolving , with static written evidence which may be out of date and even recognised as such . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | For one thing it is devoid of the relentless lilt and terminological tedium of the professional programme writer . |
9 | For one thing it is notoriously elastic , and not entirely passive . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | For one thing it is available only for the Sparcstation 10 , for another it will be shipping free with the machines from next spring . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | For one thing it is too small ; for another it is too directly dependent on the state institutions which pay its wages . |
14 | 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 ’ . |
15 | For one thing it was impossible to say , and for another it would be a deplorable waste of time . |
16 | For one thing it was not as easily won as the trust of adults , or children or animals . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | ‘ For one thing it sounds like an overlapping full-back on the Juventus transfer list , for another my kids are asking if an appointment is necessary these days or should they start the row without me ? |
19 | For one thing it was too babyish — Moses Arkwright would never do anything with so little risk attached to it — and for another , deep in the dark of his mind a small seed of moral uneasiness had begun to germinate . |
20 | For one thing it takes into account the fact that people in different social circumstances are likely to have different views and different opinions ; the sample is chosen so that the more salient features and differences that are thought to exist are proportionately represented . |
21 | For one thing it starts , Dear Mrs Knightingale which got my back up . |