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

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1 Dear Harsnet , he wrote , I am well aware of the fact that for some years now you have cut yourself off from your past and not deigned to reply to the letters of your friends , or even to return their calls , taking refuge in your answering machine and pretending not to be in when they rang at the bell .
2 This is so serious that for world championship flying , many gliders are now fitted with a means of cleaning off the leading edges of the wings in flight .
3 If full airbrakes are needed for more than a few seconds , and it looks as though they should be kept on , sideslipping should be used to get rid of the excess height so that for the last part of the approach less than full airbrake approach is required .
4 The easy way to remember it is that for a ‘ lesser ’ number of degrees , you turn ‘ left ’ , e.g. turning from 350° to 320° is turning to a lesser number and therefore you turn left .
5 Alcohol affects women and men differently because of the way their bodies are made , so remember that for women the sensible drinking limits are lower .
6 The thing about sex , thought Jay , apart from everything else , is that for a few , for many , for countless seconds and sometimes glorious minutes , you stop thinking .
7 The behaviourist theory of knowledge says that for someone , S , to know or believe that some proposition p is true is for S to be disposed to behave in some way which is supposed to be appropriate to the world 's being as p says .
8 The work of Hubel and Wiesel , in particular , put the conception of neurones as ‘ feature detectors ’ , rather than simply energy detectors , on the map , supporting the idea that for each cell in the cortex there was a specific pattern of excitation that would reliably excite it .
9 My particular cleaner came with two sizes of suction tube , and experiment has shown that for maximum suck the large diameter pipe must go from the cleaner to the container .
10 ‘ Yes , and the reason we 've got no morals is that for a long time ( 150 years ) we 've been at a loose end . '
11 Is it perhaps true that for many of the English , poetry has never been anything else but a superior parlour game ?
12 What is important to realize is that for Yeats certainly , and I think at times for Pound also , the only alternative open was a sorry second best .
13 Yvor Winters , eschewing lurid and unstable metaphors of bloodpoisoning and leukaemia , applied the discipline of intellectual history to isolate the virus that for him too disabled American literature of the north-east .
14 Half a century later , such commentary as there is on Pound 's poem is still for the most part concerned with this question that for Bunting ‘ does not arise ’ .
15 It is in any case certain that for years before Homage to Sextus Propertius Pound had been studying , not for their content chiefly but as models of musical form , the poems in quantitative metre of ancient Greece .
16 In that year comparisons of Eliot with Pound were stimulated , and exacerbated , by the publication of what were called the ‘ drafts and transcripts ’ of The Waste Land ; that is to say , the heterogeneous packet of typescripts and manuscripts which Eliot had dumped on Pound in Paris , out of which Pound had helped Eliot to extricate the poem that for forty years had been known under that title .
17 If this is so , then it seems that for ‘ the art one serves ’ one might as well read : the culture one serves , the historical period one serves , even the society one serves ( perhaps an international society ) .
18 To move from ‘ art ’ to ‘ craft ’ is rather plainly a further contraction , or diminution : and it will be radically misunderstood unless we remember that for Pound the level of craftsmanship ( not just in letters , but in supposedly humbler trades also ) is a register , a thermometer-reading , of the good or ill health of a period or of a society .
19 For more than an hour , rockets exploded across the sky — an extravaganza that for many Peking residents recalled not so much the glory of the revolution as the tracer bullets and machine-gun fire of early June .
20 Mr Nathan lamented the fact that for 40 years Israel had been saying it had no one to talk to and now that the other side was prepared to talk , Israel refused .
21 He added that for environmental reasons PowerGen had ‘ a considerable incentive to seek the low sulphur coals which are readily available on the international market ’ .
22 It is unfashionable to point out that for most of his two decades in office Marcos enjoyed considerable grass-roots favour .
23 Conference delegates endorsed their leader 's determined stand after Roy Hattersley , Labour 's deputy leader , warned that for the party to concede demands for PR would be ‘ an act of historic folly ’ .
24 He was supported by Alun Michael , MP for Cardiff South , who argued that for Labour to take the issue seriously would be a gift to the party 's opponents .
25 The Python mixture of surrealism and Oxbridge set texts — a ‘ summarising Proust ’ competition in a municipal baths ; phoning Sartre 's wife ‘ Is John Paul free ? ’ 'He 's been asking himself that for years ' — is as familiar as the silly walks , deceased parrot and other images that have gained cult status .
26 John Lloyd , producer of Not The Nine O'Clock News , Spitting Image and Blackadder , says that for his generation of university students 20 years ago Python was the seminal programme .
27 The power of the Establishment came not from the fact that a few dozen people imposed their will on the rest of us , but from the fact that for a long time we felt it right that the opinions of such people should have respectful attention paid to them .
28 The governments ' main complaint is that for the Commission 's plan to work , a special clearing house would have to be set up to reapportion VAT revenue levied in the country of export which would be owing to that of import - where the product would be consumed .
29 One danger is that for some people everything might happen too quickly at a Loving Relationships Training weekend .
30 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 .
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