Example sentences of "for it [adv] [vb -s] that " in BNC.
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1 | For it sometimes seems that men and women inhabit different emotional worlds . |
2 | Choosing the liner is one thing , calculating the size is quite another , for it always appears that you require a vast sheet for even quite a modest pool . |
3 | For it so happens that the developed societies over-value certain kinds of mental operations , like logic . |
4 | For it often happens that the things we take for granted are the very things that need most explaining , but to which we give least attention because we are barely conscious of them ourselves . |
5 | " For it often happens that in such discussions , in order to promote the common good , talk has nevertheless centred on a single individual . " |
6 | Not only is it little consolation , he wrote , it is actually a further cause for despair , for it only shows that everything is far too late , that the glass was a dream of lateness and the work on the glass was a fantasy of lateness and the belief in the glass was the madness of one who has lost all sense of the meaning of lateness . |