Example sentences of "for [adj] [be] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The upshot of these pressures for self-financing was that in the first ten years some 36 per cent of the industry 's investment was internally financed : £488 millions from depreciation allowances and £98 millions from surplus after interest payments . |
| 2 | Some of these books are raw as hell , but whether the inspiration comes from Jilly Cooper or Thomas Hardy , Iceberg Slim or Samuel Selvon , what can be said for sure is that the Black British Novel is here to stay , giving voice to a bunch of people with a whole mess of new stories to tell . |
| 3 | All we can say for sure is that it entered the microscope , perhaps on one side , perhaps on the other , perhaps in the middle . |
| 4 | All I do know for sure is that I woke up loving him . |
| 5 | One thing we did know for sure was that it was not keep-fit exercises that we needed but homes that were ‘ fit ’ to live in and incomes or benefits that prevented us from having to choose between dying from hypothermia or malnutrition ! |
| 6 | ’ All he knew for sure was that the stuff went off-planet . |
| 7 | ‘ In East Hampshire the one thing for certain is that Michael Mates will be returned , although with a much reduced majority . |
| 8 | One thing I know for certain is that after completing the first pitch it was only my experience as a climber to the lower E grades that got me through , and I wondered how a non-climber might have got on using the same information . |
| 9 | All that can be said for certain is that I respond to all of it — vixen , trees , plants , birds , the lot — but it does not respond to me . ’ |
| 10 | Even an uncertainty is tangible : " What we know for certain is that this point is uncertain . " |
| 11 | One thing for certain is that selling abroad is ‘ different ’ . |
| 12 | The only thing he knew for certain was that the law forbade the Trunchbull to hit him with the riding-crop that she kept smacking against her thigh . |