Example sentences of "that [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a warmth and a charm about him that made for easy relations with most people , even the press , and they helped him build up the confidence that was needed all round . |
| 2 | On the negative side , funerals were becoming so much more secular in outlook , appearance and context that the surviving guilds and fraternities found themselves hard-pressed to provide all that made for an average funeral of the new type ; the rules were being rewritten by a public which no longer wished to perpetuate the simple ritual hitherto provided and which were looking for a pageantry close to that of the great baronial funerals as performed by the College of Arms , a corporation of heralds and part of the Royal Household . |
| 3 | For the client , the advantage was that he could go direct to those various tradesmen who , collectively , could provide all that made for an average funeral . |
| 4 | I think that often it was jealousy — mixed with booze — that made for a lethal cocktail , with Bogie as the stirrer . |
| 5 | The model being erected was that made for the Olympia Aero Show in 1929 . |
| 6 | As Jim Kantelis , an OUS representative on the team , says : ‘ Members of the group were extremely strong willed and independent types and that made for some very healthy debate . ’ |
| 7 | The fact that many made inquiries so early in secondment suggests an anxiety about the future that made for insecurity rather than stabilisation . |
| 8 | It was invented by the Joseph-Robinson corporation , a particularly unscrupulous food company that operated for a time amongst the outer colonies of the planet Earth . ’ |
| 9 | He surprised the nation with the announcement , made in a radio and television broadcast on Saturday night , that his government has refused registration to any of the 13 political associations that applied for it . |
| 10 | There is one fundamental difference , however , between the material which is produced within a business and that produced for external consumption . |
| 11 | In one recent enquiry into the electricity supply industry , Lord Wilberforce asked the Treasury to submit a memorandum on the significance of the dispute to the interests of the national economy and the Treasury responded with a document that argued for a progressive and substantial reduction in the levels of settlements . |
| 12 | ITT opened a radio assembly plant in Livingstone which produced sets that sold for about K12 in the early 1970s ( then about £8 or $20 ) . |
| 13 | Those aware that in May 1989 Sotheby 's New York sold for $67 million a small group of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings inherited and collected by Ortiz-Patiño and once displayed in his house in Switzerland ( notable among the eight paintings offered at the time was Gauguin 's ‘ Mata Mua ’ , a Tahitian composition that sold for over $24 million to its former co-owner , Baron Thyssen , having been jointly purchased by Ortiz-Patiño and Thyssen only five years before at Sotheby 's New York for $3.85 million ) , may ask themselves how will Jaime Ortiz-Patiño furnish and decorate his London flat ? |
| 14 | An early ( 1909 ) pencil study of a woman 's head , a coffer and apple brought $80,000 ( £44,400 ) ( est. $60–80,000 ) and a brilliant brush drawing of a female nude from 1920 $85,000 ( £47,200 ) ( est. $60–80,000 ) , both better buys , I thought , than a rather vapid pencil ‘ Pierrot ’ ( 1918 ) that sold for $220,000 ( £122,200 ) ( est. $100–150,000 ) . |
| 15 | Banks that lent for property at the top of the market would be wrong to bail out near the bottom |
| 16 | It 's the formula that succeeded for me , I know it will do the same for you . ’ |
| 17 | She needed some more wood for her carving if she was to complete all the ‘ little comforters ’ , as she called them , during her three-week holiday away from the travel agents where she worked , small , smooth-shaped pieces of wood , lovingly carved and polished by herself to fit easily into the palm and which , much to her surprise and delight , were eagerly accepted by the large rehabilitation hospital in the next town that cared for the blind and mentally sick . |
| 18 | He sat in the corner of the Silver Shuriken , as far away from the bleeding video jukebox and bleeping zapper games as possible , sipping the foul antifreeze that passed for beer in the U.S. of Bloody A. He would have cut off his left doughnut and sold it to Johnny Galtieri for a pint of Six X Wadsworth , two bacon-and-cheddar sarnies and a packet of crisps with a blue twist of salt in them . |
| 19 | Duncan asked , now sprawled on the bed , his legs crossed and his head resting against a thin cushion that passed for a pillow . |
| 20 | There was criticism of much that passed for training . |
| 21 | She strode out of the cupboard that passed for the shuttle 's sick bay and into the cabin . |
| 22 | He had pulled the band of material that passed for a skirt up around her waist and was tugging at the top of her tights . |
| 23 | Chips with everything from the leathery slices of roast meat , through the squidgy fish cooked in cardboard batter to the limp arrangements of greenery that passed for salads . |
| 24 | The allocation runs counter to the recommendations of a report last year that asked for greater spending on universities ( see Nature 356 , 9 : 1992 ) . |
| 25 | It held passion and fire , it was a kiss of domination that asked for surrender yet promised surrender in return . |
| 26 | No : amor matris , a force that stopped for nothing . |
| 27 | So the choreographer can not make strong contrasts between the style usually used for the other-worldly spirits and that used for the characters living in the particular setting . |
| 28 | Mr John Lamidey , an officer of the Data Protection Registrar , concluded after visiting the league 's London office that the data on computer was not that used for vetting , which ‘ appears to be held on paper ’ . |
| 29 | And what was that used for ? |
| 30 | EGF itself is used , by others as well as ourselves , at doses 100 to 1000 times that used for inducing DNA synthesis in cell cultures , because the phosphorylation is not readily detectable at a lower dose . |