Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [that] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The courts have recently demonstrated a reaction against an absurdly over-generous approach to the construction of agreements in the employee 's favour : see Home Counties Dairies Ltd v Skilton [ 1970 ] 1 WLR 526 in which the defendant was employed by the plaintiffs as a milkman and he expressly agreed that for a period of one year after his employment terminated he would not 'serve or sell milk or dairy produce " to any person who had been a customer of his employers and who had been served by him during the six months prior to his leaving . |
| 2 | But matters were so arranged that for most the outlook was not completely bleak ; almost everyone could arrive eventually at a state of relative freedom from intimidation and enjoy a measure of authority over others . |
| 3 | I should perhaps explain that for many years it had been a regulation in UK registered public transport aircraft that when flying below 15 000 feet hand operated microphones were prohibited . |
| 4 | Sara , sitting opposite him , on the other side of the solicitor 's desk , some weeks after her aunt 's death , was so affronted that for the moment she could not speak . |
| 5 | So that when the British Medical Association decided in the late 1950s to inaugurate a programme of discussions among its membership on an appointed ‘ Subject of the Year ’ , it was entirely fitting that for its first discussion-point it should home in on The Adolescent : |
| 6 | A similar state of affairs had existed only at the very dawn of coinage when , in a number of areas including Asia Minor or Athens , a variety of personal designs had appeared , perhaps implying that for a short time after its inception coinage was sometimes produced on the authority of prominent individuals rather than of the state . |
| 7 | It just so happens that for the past sixty years it has been . |
| 8 | It so happens that for some distance the Gill itself forms the boundary between that estate and the Manor of Coniston , although it is possible that the boundary between the two manors was rather ill-defined at that time . |
| 9 | ‘ But I only stuck that for a couple of weeks , ’ he says , ‘ for I was playing guitar at a party one night in Cleveland , Ohio , and he said there were easier ways of making money out there than working the building sites . |
| 10 | The first of these equations merely states that for any country the quantity of money grows in accordance with an identifiable but stochastic process . |
| 11 | Alcohol affects women and men differently because of the way their bodies are made , so remember that for women the sensible drinking limits are lower . |
| 12 | Alcohol affects women and men differently because of the way their bodies are made , so remember that for women the sensible drinking limits are lower . |
| 13 | He was so tanned that for a moment Helen failed to recognise him . |
| 14 | The thought of Montaine was so arresting that for a moment he could not speak . |
| 15 | My Lords , I entirely agree that for the reasons set out in the speech of my noble and learned friend , Lord Browne-Wilkinson , which I have had the advantage of reading in draft , this appeal should be allowed . |
| 16 | Empirical research has long confirmed that for most people the mass media are the major sources of information about world events ( Table 1.1 ) and about political affairs ( Table 1.2 ) . |
| 17 | It is widely accepted that for a bloom to develop the critical depth must be shallower than the mixed depth . |
| 18 | I 've not heard that for quite a while and its unfamiliarity makes it sound strange . |
| 19 | A ‘ hard case ’ — and I am not disputing that for the Bland parents it is indeed a very hard case — has been found which can , and I believe will , be skilfully exploited to justify the ‘ dignified ’ removal of a subtly-expanding range of people who will be deemed to be living lives which are below some ‘ expert 's ’ criterion of an acceptable standard . |
| 20 | It is generally accepted that for both the ageing and new/modern aircraft , the complexity of maintenance problems ( i.e. ageing — corrosion , modern — advanced avionics ) increased dramatically in the last ten years . |
| 21 | ‘ Do not believe that for one second , ’ he grated . |
| 22 | Outgoings will vary but in my own case I already know that for gas , water and the poll tax I shall need an extra £132 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Okay bu yes now I 'm not arguing that for some depressed people it 's there 's always side effects of some kind , okay , Peter , I wanted to ask you a very personal question . |
| 25 | As I 'd already discovered that for myself , I started thinking . |
| 26 | ( b ) The payer has the opportunity of contesting his liability in proceedings , but instead gives way and pays : see e.g. , Henderson v. Folkestone Waterworks Co. ( 1885 ) 1 T.L.R. 329 , and Sargood Brothers v. The Commonwealth , 11 C.L.R. 258 , especially at p. 301 , per Isaacs J. So where money has been paid under pressure of actual or threatened legal proceedings for its recovery , the payer can not say that for that reason the money has been paid under compulsion and is therefore recoverable by him . |
| 27 | This was forgotten by the draftsman in British Railways Board v Elgar House Ltd ( 1969 ) 209 EG 1313 , where it was nevertheless held that for the purposes of the rent calculation parts of the demised property occupied by the headtenant should be deemed to be let at a rack rent . |
| 28 | The results also show that for couples with one infected partner and having sex three times daily , the woman is on average likely to become infected within four months , and the man within a year . |
| 29 | We have also seen that for the purposes of civil liability there have been proposals for a generalised statutory scheme for exceptional risks . |
| 30 | They also indicate that for every 1,000 increase in youth unemployment , 23 additional males are incarcerated , even when the effects of crime rates and court workload are controlled for . |