Example sentences of "was for [det] [noun] [that] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe it was for that reason that the party leader singled Mr Prescott 's past year performance out for praise in an interview in The Sunday Correspondent yesterday , calling him , chummily , ‘ Johnny ’ . |
| 2 | Junior naval officers were nominally ratings , for a midshipman was a warrant officer in contrast to the army equivalents , the ensign of foot or cornet of cavalry , who enjoyed commissioned rank , but it was for that reason that the Admiralty did not monopolise first appointments in the fleet , only interesting themselves in appointments at the rank of lieutenant or above . |
| 3 | Doubtless it was for such reasons that the crown made for Queen Alexandra to display the Koh-i-Noor and the third and fourth Stars of Africa had a platinum rather than a gold frame . |
| 4 | The official line was that ‘ true character of French concessions to Indo-Chinese nationalism and ultimate intentions are clear to Department ’ and it was for this reason that no further substantive concessions involving parliamentary action in France were called for at that time . |
| 5 | It was for this reason that no civilians had been formally involved in the spring 1936 conspiracy , and that the Committee for National Defence had issued a decree on 25 September 1936 which prohibited " all political activity " for the duration of hostilities . |
| 6 | It was for this reason that the BBC 's dispersal of a large part of its library holdings was so poignant . |
| 7 | It was for this reason that the halls were never radical or seditious and that the songs , like everything else that was on offer , were , as Colin MacInnes suggested , ‘ too inhibited emotionally , too limited intellectually , too commercial in their intentions ’ . |
| 8 | It was for this reason that the Council 's final documents remained so ambivalent . |
| 9 | It was for this reason that the fieldworkers in the other areas , who were not local residents , adopted the role of ‘ a friend of a friend ’ which gave them a clear status of an informal kind . |
| 10 | It was for this reason that the procedure was undertaken at this regional neurology centre , to investigate the young woman , who had headache and bilateral papillo-oedema and in whom cranial imaging showed no abnormality and the opening pressure on lumbar puncture was normal on two occasions . |
| 11 | It was for these reasons that a search for more elegant solutions was started in 1969–1970 . |
| 12 | It was for these reasons that the first ‘ valves ’ for radios and televisions and computers were evacuated glass vessels , descendants of Crookes ' radiometer and cathode ray tube , rather than semiconductors . |
| 13 | It was for these reasons that the United States in the late 1960s consistently opposed an increase in the official price of gold . |