Example sentences of "for it be [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Action is taken against parents , for it is they who carry the burden of ensuring that the child attends school . |
| 2 | The skill to use them wisely must be learnt by all who would aspire to the role of parents , for it is they who control the future . |
| 3 | The third force is the headteachers , for it is they who have the most decisive influence on what it is or is not safe to do or say in a school . |
| 4 | Understanding the advertising business inside out is vital , for it is they who must be aware of all the numerous restraints imposed , not only by the advertising industry itself through the Advertising Standards Authority and The Independent Television Companies Association ( ITCA ) , but also by the manufacturers of products in sensitive areas . |
| 5 | These creatures are part of the Balinese pantheon of animal deities , for it is they who are the mediators in a rich and harmonious ecology of wildlife with which , to be comfortable , one must become intimate . |
| 6 | For it is they who have borne the greater part of the burden of the economic Structural Adjustment Programme ( SAP ) started by the Babangida military government in 1986 . |
| 7 | Rightly speaking , this is not the Soldier 's tale at all but the Devil 's , for it is he who controls everyone at all times , playing with them like pawns in his game , a game of wrecking and destroying , of interference and final triumph . |
| 8 | ‘ For it is he that goes about to destroy me and my blood . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Thou shalt remember the Lord thy God : for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth , that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers ’ ( Deut. 8 : 18 ) . |
| 10 | Unlike their larvae , butterflies have excellent compound eyes — the male usually has even bigger ones than the female , for it is he that does the searching . |
| 11 | ‘ Quite so , for it is he who is responsible for importing the schmutter that will be made into your shorts . |
| 12 | It is the cattle dealers and butchers of the town who are of most interest to us , for it was they who took the dog of Rottweil and turned him to their use with great effect . |
| 13 | The other set of tradesmen to benefit from the Act were the jobbing printers , for it was they — rather than an alternative central source — who provided the blank affidavits . |
| 14 | If you had lifted the dresses of the Krishnapur ladies on that morning of the last assault , you would have found them correspondingly bare-legged , for it was they who had donated their stockings to help solve Harry 's difficulty with his brass cannon Because , incredible though it may seem , he had fired so many round shot in the course of the siege that the muzzle had been hammered into an ellipse . |
| 15 | Such thoughts made him feel uneasy , working for the Seven , for it was they , his masters , who permitted the existence of this place . |
| 16 | This was particularly sad , considering that it must have been Walpole whom she idolized and wanted to imitate , for it was he who built Strawberry Hill . |
| 17 | The hand of that great radical political theorist , John Knox , can certainly be detected in this — literally , for it was he who penned the letters . |
| 18 | So wrote Victor Hugo in 1867 in a guide book to Paris , thereby paying tribute to his enemy Napoleon III , for it was he who was in the process of transforming the city . |
| 19 | If the Emperor encouraged Haussmann by taking a personal interest in his plans , it was the Empress who worked with Alphand , a man who might well be called the gardener of Paris , for it was he who was responsible for the landscaping and planting of all the new parks . |
| 20 | For it was he who allowed Jews to re-enter Britain . |
| 21 | And if the doctrine of collegiality is to be seen as one of the major contributions of Vatican II to the life of the Church , even that can be found in the pontificate of Pius XII , for it was he who set up CELAM , the Conference of Bishops of Latin America . |
| 22 | If anyone knew when this unique event might actually happen , it was Werner , for it was he who had dramatically cured the late king of tuberculosis in the 1950s , thereby becoming a much loved honorary member of the tribe , and the recipient of all the latest news and gossip from Torajans visiting the lowlands . |
| 23 | For it was he who arranged the finance which went a long way towards putting the station on the air . |
| 24 | For it was he who helped to find superstar Hanley for Bradford Northern — a signing acknowledged as one of the most significant in Rugby League history . |
| 25 | ’ Bob , ’ corrected Mr Geldof , for it was he . |
| 26 | For it was she who brought up the young James after the perhaps fortunate death of his violent , drunken father in a railway accident . |
| 27 | Although she was unaware of it , Scarlet had acted bravely , if pointlessly , in her dealings with these two , for it was she , not Constance , who endured Brian 's discontent , drawing his disapproval upon herself and suffering vicariously for Constance , who cared nothing for Brian 's opinion , mood or reactions . |
| 28 | For it was she who told herself that nothing was to be gained at this moment by recrimination , that Sir George 's land and influence at Stockton were still big assets ( though nowhere near worth the price at which they had been bought ) , and that a moping Sir George — a sackcloth-ashes flagellant — could be all it needed to bring the whole structure of confidence tumbling down . |