Example sentences of "for it be [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Construct theory is based upon the way in which these bi-polar bases of judgment are organized and interconnected , for it is through this network of interrelated concepts that experience is codified and given meaning .
2 Perhaps we could go back still further , to the event of her own birth , and even into an intra-uterine existence , for it is at this time that the ovaries and all the eggs are formed in the female .
3 This sixth characteristic is that of accessi-bility , for it is around this concept that the nature and fairness of differentiation could be decided .
4 For Richard this was the year when he came to man 5 estate , for it was about this time that Louis VII knighted him .
5 Leonard was keen to assert his own lead in that movement , for it was during this time that he was compiling his second book ( five years after the first ) The Spice-Box Of Earth , which was published in 1961 to great critical acclaim .
6 If Baldwin is to be trusted , this visit had serious consequences , for it was on this occasion that the abbess placed a monastic veil on Matilda 's head , and when Rufus saw the veil , he went away .
7 For it was by this method , the decomposition of water or steam by red-hot iron , that Lavoisier had produced his cheap gas .
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