Example sentences of "it is [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not for such radical views , strongly held through they were , that she is remembered , but for the understanding support she gave to thousands of working-class women , giving them the confidence to venture into public life . |
| 2 | Sometimes a most carefully planned game structure is ineffective because it is not for some reason appropriate either to the material or to the particular class . |
| 3 | It is not for those intent on self-fulfilment nor for the ‘ successful ’ . |
| 4 | It is not for this , however , that she is remembered , but for her writing on domestic matters and especially for Beeton 's Book of Household Management ( 1859–61 ) which in its various editions made ‘ Mrs Beeton ’ a household name in a double sense . |
| 5 | Either way , in later life he looked back on that experience as evidence that dancing could be part of everyday life in a way that it is not for most Europeans . |
| 6 | It is largely for this latter , purely emotional reason that very few scientists will take the idea seriously . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is probably for this reason that Exeter services have not attracted the baleful glare of publicity . |
| 10 | It is mainly for these reasons that MLU and the stages identified by Brown have subsequently found such wide accept-ance among academic researchers and practitioners ( see Table 7.1 ) . |
| 11 | Indeed , it is precisely for such reasons that organisations have sought to develop long-term relationships with them . |
| 12 | It is precisely for that reason that trust status will be a more successful means of managing the health service . |
| 13 | It is precisely for this anonymity that they were selected . |
| 14 | ( 3 ) A requirement under this section to provide a specimen of blood or urine can only be made at a police station or at a hospital ; and it can not be made at a police station unless — ( a ) the constable making the requirement has reasonable cause to believe that for medical reasons a specimen of breath can not be provided or should not be required , or ( b ) at the time the requirement is made a device or a reliable device of the type mentioned in subsection ( 1 ) ( a ) above is not available at the police station or it is then for any other reason not practicable to use such a device there , or ( c ) the suspected offence is one under section 4 of this Act and the constable making the requirement has been advised by a medical practitioner that the condition of the person required to provide the specimen might be due to some drug ; but may then be made notwithstanding that the person required to provide the specimen has already provided or been required to provide two specimens of breath . |
| 15 | This is true of paper records , just as it is so for those stored in any other form . |
| 16 | If a thing is objectively so for one choice of means it is so for another ; it is a contradiction to estimate the capabilities of a subject class or race in one way when they are tractable and in another when they are not . |
| 17 | Tonight it is out for all to see . |
| 18 | It is perhaps for that reason that the pensions industry had been able to get away with such arrangements for so long . |
| 19 | It is perhaps for these entirely practical reasons that each approximate size and shape of rug is known by a specific name which usually relates either to its traditional position on the floor or the purpose for which is was made . |
| 20 | It is perhaps for these reasons that there is little tangible evidence showing any measurable reduction in loss of fire damage to contents or structures . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |