Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] for the [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Individuals begin training in a martial art for many different reasons , for fitness , for self-defence or purely for the discipline that it offers . |
| 2 | The first idea is of a metaphorical and anthropomorphic kind , and the second and third also call out for analysis , if only for the reason that there are other non-causal pairs of things such that the first explains the second and the second depends on the first . |
| 3 | With the advent of Lloyd George , who as President of the Board proved to be no mean performer at the art of conciliation , the policy of promoting " permanent machinery " , industry by industry , for the settlement of disputes began to move into top gear , if only for the reason that no alternative policy seemed to be available . |
| 4 | This was a short-lived club , but important if only for the fact that it drew up the first Breed Standard in 1901 . |
| 5 | It is not quite so important to duplicate the reel , but it is still wise , if only for the fact that your spare spools are interchangeable on both reels . |
| 6 | In its flight from the French security services once the war in Europe had broken out , the Party had , if only inadvertently , operationalized its interest in the peasantry ; if only for the fact that , in leaving the towns , they were now living amongst them . |
| 7 | In its own way the co-operative was quite a success story if only for the fact that it had kept going more or less continuously for almost five years . |
| 8 | Both for not being prepared , not giving the opening of this course the importance that it did deserve , and obviously for the embarrassment that er you must have felt having to sit there while I made a total fool of myself . |
| 9 | No prison could run for long if not for the fact that most prisoners most of the time are prepared simply to cooperate with the staff and ‘ do their bird ’ . |
| 10 | He often apologised for his English and also for the fact that this handy guide turned into two volumes . |
| 11 | In distinction to this , morality , for the Victorians and increasingly for the generations that have come after , has been to a significant degree organised around concepts of sexuality , so that even when moral attitudes were authoritarian and restrictive , as the dominant notions were for much of the nineteenth century , sexuality had a vigorous presence . |
| 12 | The plans allowed not only for considerable retrenchment of the mental hospital facilities , but also for the possibility that resettling long-stay patients would prove difficult and that more modern on-site village-style accommodation might be required . |
| 13 | Thus the Paracelsians , who boasted that their account of creation as a process of chemical separation was the only legitimate interpretation of Genesis , incurred Bacon 's displeasure not only for their hijacking of the Bible , but also for the implication that knowledge of nature was in need of biblical support . |
| 14 | This group is remarkable not only for the quality of its work , but also for the fact that no individual has ever been known by name ; only the corporate identity has come down across the years . |
| 15 | All was carefully organized , not only for the debate and the vote , but also for the disorder that would follow when Asquith moved to rescind the vote : Ministers were shouted down , a copy of Standing Orders was thrown at Churchill , and the Speaker had to suspend the House until the following week because of the danger of actual fighting in the House . |