Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] for the [noun sg] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Houghton convinced himself he was searching so avidly for the match that he was almost willing himself to find it . |
| 2 | So much for the idea that two-tier pricing will somehow be too complicated . |
| 3 | So much for the claim that science does not involve causation . |
| 4 | This defence of Marxism carries over , however , to a critique of Modernism itself : not merely for the fact that Nietzsche attaches ‘ importance ’ to art but for the further claim ascribed to him , and therefore to Modernism itself , that ‘ the nature of aesthetic experience contains in nuce the form of understanding proper to the world itself ( p. 66 ) . |
| 5 | The definition is adopted , of course , not merely for the reason that it gives us a further explanation of the difference between causal items and their effects . |
| 6 | But like , it was alright then because like means that you can changed up in this one corner of the changing room all the time and so I 'd got my shirt on while I was putting my T-shirt on like for the reason that my bra strap was bust , not actually because I 'd got a gigantic love bite around my neck ! |
| 7 | ‘ It did our heads in a bit , freaked us out just for the fact that everybody who 's ever met us in the business knows exactly how we are . |
| 8 | In a most interesting essay in the recent volume of Essays on the Depopulation of Melanesia the great psychologist W. H. R. Rivers adduces evidence which has led him to believe that the natives of that unfortunate archipelago are dying out principally for the reason that the ‘ Civilization ’ forced upon them has deprived them of all interest in life . |
| 9 | It 's a very striking book because while on the one hand he admires the Bolsheviks very greatly for the hope that they have given to man , for the feeling that they have given to the world that new potentialities are there to be realized if only we had enough courage , yet on the other hand , even at that point , he was acutely conscious that the Bolsheviks ' attitude towards the equality of power was leading them in a fatal direction , and long before Stalinism began to take shape , he described in advance what he expected to come . |
| 10 | and er , which we finished , and I would really just like to say that erm , thanks very much for the cooperation that we received from the offices generally across the authority . |
| 11 | Erm can we can you as part of the discussion , can you start off by saying well thank you very much for the call that you gave me last week but erm erm there 's there 's just a couple of sizes I 'd like to talk talk to you about . |
| 12 | ’ We commended Mr Canning very highly for the work that he 's done on that particular churchyard . ’ |