Example sentences of "for that " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is looking for that quality which you must allow me to call ‘ modernity ’ ; for I know of no better word to express the idea I have in mind . |
| 2 | I later realized that I had posed during a crucial period , and the tiny bronzes that resulted ( for that size prevailed ) continue daily to touch me . |
| 3 | Which of these two conceptions , for that matter , we may even sometimes wonder , is which ? |
| 4 | As for that business of going to the police , I am sorry I mentioned it . |
| 5 | There is no biographical key with which it can be unlocked — and I have not been trying to turn one in this essay of mine , which does not believe it , for that matter , to be locked . |
| 6 | It 's not much use arriving somewhere at ten in the morning clutching the collected works under your arm and wishing you had a wig and been born thirty years earlier in order to play Lear — or for that matter the Duke of Gloucester . |
| 7 | Auditions are nerve-wracking for everyone who does them ( and for that matter , for everyone who watches them ) but being sure of your text is the least you can do . |
| 8 | In recent years , photographs of newcomers to the profession have been put together in a volume expressly produced for that purpose , by Spotlight . |
| 9 | Perhaps doing Shakespeare spoils you for that , but I think having a text that is good is important . |
| 10 | It took several months for that to come home and safe . |
| 11 | Originally I wanted to be a doctor like my father , but it was soon clear I did n't have the intelligence for that — that 's to say I was n't any good at mathematics and physics and that sort of thing . |
| 12 | I had been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , he typed , as Harsnet had written . |
| 13 | That is why , wrote Harsnet , I have been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , that is why I have cleared the decks and prepared the ground , because unless the decks are cleared and the g round prepared there is little hope of succeeding in what one has planned to do , little hope of achieving anything of lasting value , though lasting is a relative term and so is value and whatever it is one has planned to do is certain to be altered in the process , which does not of course mean , he wrote , that one can start anywhere at any time . |
| 14 | However , he wrote , for that very reason , the right hand side should have been even more solid , even more thought through than the left . |
| 15 | ( Or first person narration for that matter . ) |
| 16 | Am I responsible for that ? |
| 17 | Nothing had prepared me for that . |
| 18 | For that you have to be up against the real thing . |
| 19 | No doubt they mean well where the arts are concerned , he wrote , but for that reason they are the biggest menace . |
| 20 | No doubt they think they have the interests of the artist at heart , he wrote , but for that reason they must be avoided like the plague . |
| 21 | We 're agreed , I think , that , ghastly though it is , there 's nothing we can do for that poor girl at the moment , and that Rita can go on for her . |
| 22 | They were all too old for that , and too superior . |
| 23 | Oh , gone be our joy — for that stillness be death ! |
| 24 | ‘ It 's mostly my gardener I have to thank for that ’ , said the doctor modestly , ‘ but , yes , I do take an interest . |
| 25 | I 'm not going to chuck you out and go for vacant possession or anything , life 's too short for that . |
| 26 | Anyway , the people at SIS are big enough to take it and I respect them for that . ’ |
| 27 | Well , however it struck you , it 's a slice of life and I hope you found it interesting enough just for that . |
| 28 | The dreaded gardeners ' garters , of Phalaris arundinacea ‘ Picta ’ manages to creep all over the place but is far too lovely a plant to write off just for that reason . |
| 29 | You never find out about the water in the instrument systems until you are airborne and it will ruin that flight , if not the entire flying for that day . |
| 30 | There was time enough for that … later . |