Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [that] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was probably difficult for Sheila to take the step of coming into the CAB with the very sensitive subject of homosexuality that for all she knows may be taboo at the bureaux . |
| 2 | In this case it will be obligatory for the driver to provide the specimen which the constable decides to require , either blood or urine subject only to this , that if the constable requires blood but a medical practitioner is of opinion that for medical reasons a specimen of blood can not or should not be taken , the obligation on the driver will then be to provide a specimen of urine instead . |
| 3 | So , hoisting her bag over her shoulder with an element of pride that for a brief moment made her lose sight of how important it was to try and pin him down for an interview , she made for the door . |
| 4 | Such clichés fill her first speech of welcome to Wilekin with a set of offers that for the reader and writer are ironically naive in the context of which we are aware : ( " If you like , come and sit , and what your will is , let me know , my dear life . |
| 5 | However , we now have a chance to remove the fear from the minds of women that for too long the attitude to rape has been based on the unspoken belief that , in the end , no woman will refuse the sexual advances of a dominant man and that ‘ No ’ , whatever the circumstances in which it is said , is simply a ‘ tease ’ and that women never mean it . |
| 6 | Thus doctors agreed with scientists that for the sake of the welfare of the race , women 's intellectual development and range of activities should be severely curtailed . |
| 7 | I do take into account that for a lot of people , pop artists are role models so you have to be careful about what you are doing . |
| 8 | He proved and illustrated from Bede that for the first hundred and forty years after its foundation as an archbishopric , Canterbury had held primatial authority over the whole country ; then he went on to prove , though more sketchily , that this state of affairs had lasted without intermission until the Norman Conquest . |
| 9 | He writes in the last paragraph , ‘ It should be borne in mind that for the creation of a climatic regime managed by man , further progress of science and engineering is necessary which would permit a considerable increase in the present production of energy . |
| 10 | In assessing the impact of stories of premature interment , one must bear in mind that for most of the nineteenth century , medical science , such as it was , was helpless in the face of coma and cardiac arrest ; if the patient had apparently ceased breathing and had no discernable heartbeat , it was assumed that death had come . |
| 11 | Also , bear in mind that for the single horse owner a bag of coarse mix will be used up while the feed still retains its value . |
| 12 | However , it should be borne in mind that for most Marxists an interpretation of historical ( or dialectical ) materialism , which we have briefly discussed above , provides some degree of overarching methodological coherence to Marxism . |
| 13 | On the other hand , it should be borne in mind that for all his adolescent encyclopaedic zeal and his years of cultural enthusiasms , his familiarity with European culture was largely restricted to two areas : classical antiquity and the modern period , especially the previous hundred years . |
| 14 | One has always to bear in mind that for very many people in early-modern England — in the towns as much as in the countryside — the home was also the place of work . |
| 15 | There have been doubts about the bank 's central aim of fostering the entrepreneurial spirit in countries that for the past 40 years , or longer , have been dominated by communism . |
| 16 | Could you write down on that that I 've , in brackets that for Ron I 've got tin of Liquorice Allsorts . |
| 17 | The first defendant had known the deceased for some seven years and said in evidence that for the 3 or 3½ years before the deceased 's death he had been looking after the deceased . |
| 18 | I was so high on adrenalin that for all I knew I was talking utter rubbish . |
| 19 | A GROWING demand for slate roofs has breathed new life into traditional slate quarrying in north Wales and given a fillip to villages that for centuries have relied on the industry for jobs . |
| 20 | It is widely accepted among researchers that for code switching to take place , speakers must recognise at least two distinct codes , i.e. two distinct language systems . |