Example sentences of "was for this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is very clever of Brutus , saying that he loved Caesar more than anybody , and it was for this love that he killed him , to prevent him from the trouble brewing ahead for him . |
| 2 | She wanted to show how grateful she was for this second chance . |
| 3 | What he wanted to do was to publicize erm the whole issue , and it was for this purpose that he joined in these campaigns . |
| 4 | Yes it was for this window . |
| 5 | The FISA president said the sanction against Mansell was for this breach of security rules and had nothing to do with his failure to stop after a black flag was waved at him three times . |
| 6 | It was for this convict , who could be caught and hanged at any moment , that I had deserted Joe . |
| 7 | It was for this reason that he felt compelled to offer the Liberals the alternative vote , an electoral system which would have the effect of entrenching the third party as part of the political system . |
| 8 | It was for this reason that Swangrove came about . |
| 9 | It was for this reason that I had Zowie because I could see how he was with children . |
| 10 | It was for this reason that he concluded that different cells receive different genes . |
| 11 | I am unaware of any biography in print , and it was for this reason that I wrote this brief account of the life of a truly great man of God . |
| 12 | It was for this reason that many of them carefully locked their front doors when they left their homes . |
| 13 | It was for this reason that the BBC 's dispersal of a large part of its library holdings was so poignant . |
| 14 | Our policy has been to try to build up a great team and not to weaken our playing strength , and it was for this reason that we accepted the offer made . |
| 15 | It was for this reason that she called herself ‘ stupid ’ . |
| 16 | My brother Frankie and sister Liza were a little older than I was , so perhaps it was for this reason that I seemed to end up doing most of the chores . |
| 17 | Perhaps it was for this reason that I hated them as much as I resented menstruation itself . |
| 18 | It was for this reason that Rendcomb aerodrome , nestled in the Cotswolds , came into being in 1916 . |
| 19 | It was for this reason that the halls were never radical or seditious and that the songs , like everything else that was on offer , were , as Colin MacInnes suggested , ‘ too inhibited emotionally , too limited intellectually , too commercial in their intentions ’ . |
| 20 | It was for this reason that Baldwin and McConville ( 1979 ) chose to study real juries rather than follow the example of previous researchers in setting up ‘ mock trials ’ . |
| 21 | It was for this reason that the Council 's final documents remained so ambivalent . |
| 22 | Councillors had an understandable reluctance to commit themselves to a political course which would deprive them of access to patronage , and it was for this reason that it was necessary for politicians to provide demonstrations of power . |
| 23 | For Sartre ‘ human history ’ was identified with the history of the West , and it was for this reason that Lévi-Strauss contested Sartre 's claim to have established the human foundation of ‘ a structural , historical anthropology ’ for Marxism . |
| 24 | The official line was that ‘ true character of French concessions to Indo-Chinese nationalism and ultimate intentions are clear to Department ’ and it was for this reason that no further substantive concessions involving parliamentary action in France were called for at that time . |
| 25 | If anything should happen to him , there could well be a collapse in Indo-China and it was for this reason that Collins recommended that the US should continue to extend military and economic aid ‘ in order to check the spread of communism in South-East Asia ’ — but only as long as de Lattre was in Indo-China . |
| 26 | It was for this reason that in Du Contrat Social he mocked the English by contending that the English people " is free only during the election of Members of Parliament ; as soon as the Members are elected , the people is enslaved ; it is nothing . " |
| 27 | Sentence ( 10 ) tells us of a " weakness " of the " heart " , but not until ( 11 ) , where this matter is taken up again in the expression " the poor child was not robust " , do we learn that it provided a reason for the present interview : it was for this reason ( we surmise ) that the Moreens wished to engage a resident tutor . |
| 28 | It was for this reason that Léon Cohn-Casson became such a fervent advocate of a secular morality . |
| 29 | It was for this reason that the fieldworkers in the other areas , who were not local residents , adopted the role of ‘ a friend of a friend ’ which gave them a clear status of an informal kind . |
| 30 | It was for this reason that the procedure was undertaken at this regional neurology centre , to investigate the young woman , who had headache and bilateral papillo-oedema and in whom cranial imaging showed no abnormality and the opening pressure on lumbar puncture was normal on two occasions . |