Example sentences of "for [pers pn] is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Serafine tips Miranda back against the pillows in the position of sleep , and gently pulls the thumb out of her mouth , shaking her head and smiling , ‘ No ’ , then turns to Xanthe , smooths her hair , for she is already drifting , eyes half-closed . |
| 2 | However , at the beginning of the novel it seems that even this admirable lady , for she is definitely a lady , can not think totally by herself — she is guided by the abominable Mr. Slope . |
| 3 | The Bride strips herself , glowing with pleasure at seeing herself seen , but it is a poor solitary exercise , for she is only impregnated by her imagination . |
| 4 | For she is certainly mine now , and surely in a way she has never been any other man 's … |
| 5 | Her body glistens with a special polish for she is continually groomed by her servants . |
| 6 | For it is sadly true that misuse of a desktop publishing system can actually reduce the impact of your material rather than enhance it . |
| 7 | It does not show that no experience of any sort is necessary , as indeed it could not , for it is logically impossible to substantiate universally negative statements . |
| 8 | Nor could I believe that it was the intention to bring in at a single stroke a charge to tax that would be calculated to interrupt the education and expectations of so many parents and children , for it is surely common knowledge that the provision of free or subsidised education for the children of those teaching in independent schools was part of their usual terms of employment and that the salaries paid would be wholly insufficient to meet a charge to tax based on the full fees of the school . |
| 9 | The imaginative response to historical houses , as the expression of an order that is past , thus has none of Disraeli 's optimism , for it is persistently pervaded by the sense of an order passed quite beyond recall . |
| 10 | Even more astonishing are the powers accorded to the government as a whole , for it is here that the primacy of the executive over the legislature is most clear . |
| 11 | In Woonerf-type streets cycling should be strongly encouraged , for it is here that the speed differences between cars and cycles that are so dangerous to the latter are minimised . |
| 12 | This is a pleasant town and a major road junction , for it is here that the road forks up to the pass of Encumeada across the centre of the island — and the way we will return . |
| 13 | It is these allowances which should be studied by the ICC , for it is here that the suspicion of undue leniency remains strongest . |
| 14 | For it is here that all our strength lies , the last certainty that light may survive in darkness . |
| 15 | This is not enough , for it is also necessary to ‘ think these differences in rhythm and punctuation in their foundation , in their type of articulation , displacement and torsion which harmonizes these different times with one another ’ — though it must be added that this begs the question of how such harmonization is achieved . |
| 16 | The economic world in which the family has its being is not just the market , for it is also affected by state allocation of the benefits and burdens of citizenship according to its own criteria . |
| 17 | Most commonly , mura-muras are asked to send rain , for it is well known that if one is offended he will hold up a huge bark dish to the heavens and catch all the rain on its way to earth , out of spite . |
| 18 | Give me patience , give me a little more patience , Alida thought , for it is soon coming to an end . |
| 19 | For it is clearly not enough to say that if two things are observed simultaneously in different spatial positions , then they are two , not one , even though they might be completely alike . |
| 20 | This in itself presents a powerful argument against change , for it is clearly desirable that national and EC policies should be broadly similar if only because it is less confusing to the business community . |
| 21 | This is not to be wondered at , for it is both huge and beautiful and possessed of the most breathtaking spire in all Christendom . |
| 22 | For it is both sinful and shameful that you have laid this accusation against me , for I am an old woman , and lame . |
| 23 | The chapter entitled " Language and gender " is bound to seem tokenistic , despite any protestations , for it is rather unsatisfactory to produce a chapter on gender and ideology and then discuss at length two canonical male texts . |
| 24 | This is the mystery of sin which has no rational explanation , for it is ultimately and radically inexplicable . |
| 25 | Linking hands , they whispered their love for one another , and although they were kept physically apart by those old granite stones , they were in another sense brought close together by them , for it is curiously easier to give your heart away through a hole in the wall than to swear your fidelity between the sheets of a feather bed . |
| 26 | There is a very strong case for limiting periods of service in the voluntary sector , for it is frequently the irremovable elements which convey that wearying taint of backward-looking petrification . |
| 27 | Gouldner was just three-quarters right in describing it as a culture of critical discourse ; for it is essentially a culture of self-critical discourse . |
| 28 | The term remote sensing is fairly self-explanatory , but it needs to be said that the word ‘ remote ’ is used advisedly , for it is usually observation from aircraft or even satellites that is in question . |
| 29 | ‘ Face ’ and ‘ mask ’ may still be the wrong metaphor , for it is too rigid , denying the fluid state of continual remoulding , and it also denies those rare but important occasions when mask and face are indistinguishable . |
| 30 | For it is too late to rebuild the momentum . |