Example sentences of "for of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do emphasise this definition , which relies upon the influence upon the value of money being direct , being exercised upon particular prices ; for of course all economic policies have an effect upon the value of money and thus upon prices , including incomes . |
| 2 | ‘ She 's my adopted daughter , ’ I said , for of course she was so in my mind although not yet in fact . |
| 3 | I had no idea that Dad could drive a horse , but this he did in great style for of course he had spent his boyhood on various farms . |
| 4 | Here they had to part with their horses , for of course there could be accommodation for only a few animals in this castle itself . |
| 5 | Rufus grinned , for of course Adam had told him all about Hilbert 's will . |
| 6 | For of course Aragorn and the others , including Frodo , are in their feelings of confusion and meaninglessness absolutely wrong — ‘ infatuated ’ , ‘ bewildered ’ , drowning in a bog of mere events , caught in a strangler 's net of wyrd . |
| 7 | For of course the Pacific is still influenced by the Atlantic that once dominated the world : the ties that bound the world together yesterday — personified by the men and women who came out from the West to trade or to peddle religion , to colonize , annex , smuggle or fight — these ties still exist today , though more weakly , with less influence and fewer and fewer people enrolled in the process . |
| 8 | Given this revised definition , it becomes natural to talk about preserving and defending democracy rather than achieving it , for of course it already exists in such fortunate countries as Britain and the United States . |
| 9 | He bit his lip as he said it , for of course in the past Sylvie had often wanted Katherine to be miserable . |
| 10 | ‘ When I left the palace , ’ Hope replied , gravely , and using the speech to transact the casual reciprocation of his own card , ‘ both princesses — for of course Mathilda too is secure in that entitlement — ‘ |
| 11 | For of course , though the market is always sensitive to innovations , and must in part of its production promote them , the great bulk of market production is solidly based on known forms and minor variants of known forms . |
| 12 | ‘ But one likes doing things for people , ’ said Ianthe firmly , for of course she had been brought up to think that one should , though perhaps this situation was a little different . |
| 13 | If we approach these tensions from the perspective of assuming that these represent the dialectical poles , or at least some of them ( for of course others could be discussed here had we the space : for example the tension between " knowing how " and " knowing that " in design activity ) of a design activity which encompasses all of these in a vertical moment of synthesis , a synthesis that is counterposed horizontally ( ie over time ) by the changing movements of the activity itself ( from product critique through to problem definition to cognitive modeling of potential solutions etc ) , a movement of understanding and practice which parallels in its sphere the circle of historical understanding and historical praxis ( and just as the latter is the " way in which history itself moves " so the former is the " way praxis itself moves " ) so design can be seen as embodying that movement in its movement from or across actuality ie in its activity of transformation from one set of " givens " to another ; in its movement from problem to product . |
| 14 | and er that 's how I remember it by except for of course the war ended in nineteen forty five but were n't |
| 15 | Recently , we 've come to think er , even more strategically about the projects , and organisations we 've chosen to support for of course , two reasons . |