Example sentences of "[that] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | There is speculation that the Government is working to the rule that for every 4 per cent depreciation of the pound , there would be a 1 point rise in base rates to maintain the tightness of monetary policy . |
| 32 | ‘ That means that for economic as well as for political reasons , we need to make certain that our power to influence Europe 's future is as great as can be , ’ he said . |
| 33 | And it is significant that for many of them , the beacon of light is Britain — yes , Margaret Thatcher 's Britain . |
| 34 | And it is significant that for many of them the beacon light is Britain — yes , Margaret Thatcher 's Britain . ’ |
| 35 | From The Good Skiing Guide reports I estimate that for those with a taste for Cabernet-Sauvignon , a budget of £30 a day would not be extravagant , adding another £400 . |
| 36 | As measures of relative prosperity , the number of households with three or more cars in Easton is more than double that for the two district council areas in which it is located , and the quality of the housing stock and amenities is higher , with the proportion of households in Easton which have use of only an outside flush toilet being half that of the general area . |
| 37 | Confused data on peasant landownership and family size made it virtually impossible to make accurate assessments , so that for many provinces only half of the taxable land per head was in fact recorded in the tax lists . |
| 38 | When the Constituent Assembly was dissolved after the 1917 Revolution , and the Bolsheviks ' Land Decree had stolen the main plank of the Socialist Revolutionaries ' platform , Siberian and Black-Earth peasants alike failed to give any further support to their still loyal party , despite the fact that for a period an SR-dominated Directory prevailed in eastern Russia . |
| 39 | Later figures showed that for the whole of 1922 over twice as much grain was transported by rail and waterways as in 1921 . |
| 40 | One local farmer commented that for McCartney to put an end to the hunt might not necessarily be in the best interests of the deer . |
| 41 | It does not seem generally known that for more than a year after VJ Day more than 120,000 Allied POWs were kept in internment camps in Java . |
| 42 | He decided that for him to sit back and imagine , to follow a Bensonian way and be a dilettante among refined ideas , was an actual temptation . |
| 43 | The rejections , and the manner of the rejections , ensured that for the future the Church would take no notice of what the House of Commons thought about the way in which the Church of England worshipped . |
| 44 | Was it possible that for the sake of prayer and guidance of souls he had a calling to the unmarried state ? |
| 45 | But Hitler made world Christianity something that for a moment even people in the pews could see as an expression of peace , and amity , and human rights , and the moral law in politics . |
| 46 | Now , I leave entirely on one side the question why on earth the present ratio between profits and incomes generally is so supremely right that for all time it ought to be preserved , or at any rate allowed only to diminish , regardless of anything else that happens , such as the growth of savings and accumulation of capital . |
| 47 | It is not so commonly remembered that for him too it was the South African experience of the Boer War and its aftermath from which he emerged ‘ unionist ’ in the Imperial context . |
| 48 | What we 've been shown in the Report , and what has , ah , emerged from this discussion , is that for some fifteen years , we engaged in a game of blind man 's buff . |
| 49 | The fatal , fateful thing was that for a century the device appeared to work : Canada felt and behaved as if it was still part of the empire . |
| 50 | The agent would agree with the promoter that for every pound taken on the door , the artist will receive a certain percentage . |
| 51 | However , if the deal were , for instance , a 90 : 10 split and not a gross deal , the promoter would realize that for every pound he or she spends on costs , 90 pence of that pound belongs to the artist . |
| 52 | I discovered that for quite a long part of their career , every Simon and Garfunkel recording used a set of distinctive and unusual percussion sounds . |
| 53 | His criticism of Lévy-Bruhl for overstressing the distance between the savage and the modern mind shows that for Eliot the two were linked , but Lévy-Bruhl 's stress on the different , apparently unreasonable nature of the savage leads to the modern Sweeney whose world is far removed from the sweet reason of Emerson . |
| 54 | In Eliot 's poem the status of God as objet d'art is stressed ( ‘ And there above the painter set / The Father and the Paraclete ’ ) so that for all that we may penetrate beyond that either to gesso ground or vestiges of primitive fertility ceremony , the ultimate point of origin , the postulated God , is to be explained simply in terms of sexuality , or else remains unreachable and inexplicable . |
| 55 | But if Eliot in the poem has adopted the personality of a fertility god , this god is a peculiarly Prufrockian one in the sense that for all ‘ The constant flame shall keep me warm , ’ he remains not simply a minor divinity , neither being nor meant to be Prince Hamlet , but also , for all the lovers ' attentions , an impotent ghost , ‘ A bloodless shade among the shades/ Doing no good , but not much harm ’ . |
| 56 | His criticism of Oesterley 's work makes it clear that for Eliot a ritual 's origins may be as meaningless as is its present form . |
| 57 | This did not mean that the play itself was not exciting as drama , but it meant that for Eliot , intent on his search for a vital relation between ritual and art , this play would not suffice . |
| 58 | He wrote to Stead in April 1928 that he felt that for reasons of compensation he required the most ascetic and violent form of discipline , and discussed having to come to terms with celibacy as a Christian . |
| 59 | Again , contra Lawrence , it is obvious that for Eliot the idea that modern western society should adopt savage customs is seen as ludicrous and reprehensible , since he believed that not even the lowest of civilized people could adapt themselves to such society without deteriorating and frequently also corrupting the natives . |
| 60 | If Eliot had been formed by St Louis , then we should remember that for him St Louis had been not simply a city , but also ‘ the beginning of the Wild West ’ . |