Example sentences of "[be] [adv] for this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The signs at first sight seem to be completely different from those of other scripts found in Minoan Crete , and they are often for this reason said to be an import : the disc itself is sometimes explained away as a foreign curiosity . |
| 2 | It was true , but Wycliffe remembered Emily Pascoe 's words : ‘ … delicate ; you could see she would n't be long for this world . ’ |
| 3 | A reliable little bird tells this column that Frank may not be long for this world either . |
| 4 | She gave me her apologies earlier for being unable to be here for this stage of the debate . |
| 5 | Oh you 're not going to be here for this joke so I , I said oh got ta let him down . |
| 6 | Indeed , the author of Le débat des hérauts d'armes could state that the French nobility did not regard fighting at sea as being a noble activity : it is perhaps for this reason that naval warfare did not feature in the chronicles in the way that war on land did . |
| 7 | It is perhaps for this reason that a Code of Practice was issued by the Secretary of State for the Environment in 1981 which requires that authorities produce a minimum number of specified unit cost statistics . |
| 8 | It is perhaps for this reason that the Court of Appeal in Faccenda left open the question as to whether an employee could sell the information which was comprised in the skills acquired in the course of employment which he could not be prevented from using himself . |
| 9 | It is probably for this reason that male zebra finches copulate frequently with their partners , even though a single mating is quite sufficient to fertilise all the eggs . |
| 10 | It is probably for this reason that Exeter services have not attracted the baleful glare of publicity . |
| 11 | The Clouds are of immense importance to astronomers , and it is partly for this reason that many of the great new telescopes are being set up south of the equator , where the Clouds are accessible . |
| 12 | The money IS there for this sort of defecit though … like any asset you get depreciation so you should nt expect to have a nil balance on ins and outs . |
| 13 | It is precisely for this anonymity that they were selected . |
| 14 | This is specifically for this kind of file , which is accessed by a machine without reference to either DOS or the BIOS . |
| 15 | This idea was so firmly rooted that it was perhaps for this reason that these results from radio astronomy seem not to have been widely accepted at first . |
| 16 | But the provisional guid the guideline which was set by Policy and Resources in the first instance , was just for this Committee to identify seventy thousand pounds ' worth of reductions . |
| 17 | It was probably for this reason that we missed some of the more esoteric waders like broad-billed sandpiper and jack snipe which are known to nest in this area . |
| 18 | It was probably for this reason that the parish registers were not fully established until the reign of Elizabeth I , the fear of taxation and also that the clergy of this period had a dislike of statistics and generally met the injunction by a policy of passive resistance . |
| 19 | In yet another school we observed science lessons using a topic approach in the library and were reliably informed that the proposed project purchase in this subject was precisely for this kind of use . |
| 20 | It was precisely for this purpose that the United States Government obstructed the carrying out of the Moscow Agreement on Korea , which envisaged the speediest creation of an independent Korean democratic State . |
| 21 | It was initially for this reason that fieldwork in Andersonstown was delegated to one of the informants , while Harris himself carried out the Braniel study . |
| 22 | On most occasions when mass demonstrations took place there were clashes with the police and it was primarily for this reason that the Labour Party and the TUC tried to discourage such a form of protest . |