Example sentences of "that for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 How 's that for instant character analysis ? ’
2 But so physically restricted was the Calais area , and so often was it under French pressure , that for long years at a time all the needs of the garrison , whether in provisions or materials , had to be shipped in from England .
3 Previously to T N T Dave was in the steel industry , and he worked in that for thirty years er , doing , and one or two other things , one of which was G K N , that 's it .
4 In 1984 , the six-month unemployment rate for electrical/electronic engineers was 4.2 per cent , but that for chemical engineers 11.1 per cent ; 9.9 per cent for physicists but 21.9 per cent for zoologists ; 11.4 per cent for economists but 18.4 per cent for sociologists , 9.3 per cent for French graduates but 15.1 per cent for Russian graduates .
5 Last spring , the US Supreme Court dealt the unions a blow by ruling , in a suit brought by treasury employees and rail workers , that for critical occupations ( such as a customs agent ) testing does not curtail constitutional rights .
6 lower than that for neighbouring Hambledon , part of which is also in my constituency , even though the two districts have similar characteristics ?
7 According to the US consul in Saigon , three and a half of these four statements were completely false but , in fact , not only may Under-Secretary of State Dean Acheson have offered the ‘ good offices ’ of the US ( as they were to be offered in Indonesia ) but there was also at the same time in effect a plea from Moffat , then in Singapore , that for various reasons the US should intervene .
8 Hungary 's economic dependence on grain exports , mainly wheat , meant that she was badly affected by the economic crises of the early 1930s , when the average price of agricultural produce fell sharply while that for industrial goods rose .
9 Earlier , the large undertakings had been able to appoint specialised commercial officers to deal with the special selling requirements in markets such as that for industrial power .
10 Yeah and he had that for sixty quid for ages
11 Oh yes , there is I mean obviously we do n't do that for seventy pounds because we could n't obviously .
12 Now , given a phrase consisting of adjective + noun , we may say that , for ascriptive adjectives , the referential locus of the adjective and of the noun are one and the same , in other words that but that for associative adjectives .
13 Yet we also need to see that for middle class European women , struggling to use a momentary opening in the cultural framework of pre-Revolutionary Europe to claim some access to the intellectual professions , these unsavoury conditions were the very means of their access to both art and social acknowledgement .
14 Its report , entitled Special Education Needs , contained important recommendations for bringing the education of handicapped pupils into line with that for ordinary children .
15 Note that the moving objects rating is significantly correlated with risk rating , r(46)=0.47 , p<0.01 while that for fixed objects is not , r(46)=0.15 .
16 And then you see the the council I did that for nineteen years .
17 In the second category of licentiateship ( that for junior management ) a person is eligible for membership of this grade if he has passed the HCIMA professional Certificate/Diploma programme , or Parts A and B or one of the current examinations listed in the section under members but can not yet meet the experience criteria required for full membership .
18 The choice of finishes for exterior woodwork is not as great as that for interior woodwork .
19 Well , they carry that for nine months , do n't they ?
20 Generally speaking , we can say that for nationalized industries the accounting standard-setting function of the law relates to the form of published accounts ; while responsibility for the content is abrogated to the accounting profession ( because ‘ true and fair ’ is defined by professional pronouncements ) .
21 I had s that for sixteen weeks .
22 Neilsen has indicated that anorexia nervosa has a pattern of seasonal onset ( maximum in May ) consistent with that for certain mood disorders and suicide .
23 For a long time historians were happy to talk in terms of a basic struggle between Whigs and Tories during the reigns of William and Anne , whilst recognising that this occasionally broke down , and that for certain periods political battles were fought out along Court–Country lines .
24 It does mean that for certain growth areas in technological subjects the class number is very long , For example , the subject " Short Take Off and Landing Aircraft in the United States " has the class number 629.1333404269973 .
25 It has lots of similar properties to a larger computer , in so much that it has a similar , what is referred to as a central processing unit , and in some instances similar peripheral devices , but if one can imagine that for certain applications where these have been collectively gathered together in erm the ultimate setting on a single integrated circuit , then one has a microcomputer , comprised of a microprocessor , some memory and some appropriate interfacing devices to the outside world .
26 Similar to that for major improvements .
27 You also told me that for eleven years you were national coach and team manager to the United Arab Emirates .
28 This proportion contrasts with that for developed nations such as the USA , where 35 per cent of young people attend college ( Tournebise and Macdonald 1987 : 47 ) .
29 Using a series of specially devised tests of production and comprehension it was possible to identify a pattern of sign language learning among social workers for the deaf in the UK which is different from that for second language learning .
30 My doubts have grown during the years I have been thinking about and then writing this book , but for the moment I will concede that for many scholars and teachers a clarion-call to defend ‘ literature as literature ’ would prove rousing and timely .
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