Example sentences of "for it [vb -s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no reason why it should , for it forms part of the same document , and appears to have been executed at the same time , as the legacy of liberatio . |
| 2 | Academics contribute to it , certainly , but writing as critics , not academics , for it involves judgement as much as elucidation . |
| 3 | Whether or not governments should take greater powers to break up already existing monopolies is an issue which is as much political as economic , for it involves issues of the freedom of the individual and the state . |
| 4 | Her nursing activity would be right on our first less rigoristic formulation of the Benthamite view , for it does good by way of lessening pain and promoting pleasure and either does no harm at all , or none that is significant . |
| 5 | For it enables people to unite in support of some ‘ low or medium level ’ generalizations despite profound disagreements concerning their ultimate foundations , which some seek in religion , others in Marxism or in Liberalism , etc . |
| 6 | Like the wares of other middlemen , there is something synthetic and not quite genuine about her product , for it enables people to survive within a basically debilitating system . |
| 7 | The sample list of books is equally important , for it disarms criticisms of the kind : ‘ The books involved are obsolete and the shelf space is needed for more modern colourful illustrated books ’ , or ‘ Things like this have always been going on ’ , or ‘ We only get rid of popular novels when the rush is over ’ . |
| 8 | Separation gives us so much else , for it turns part of our minds into a sanctuary . |
| 9 | We shall shortly see that pragmatism is less radical than this description makes it seem , for it recognizes reasons of strategy why statutes should generally be enforced in accordance with their plain and intended meaning and why past judicial decisions should normally be respected in present cases . |
| 10 | Studying at home is not the lazy option , which many people think it is , for it needs commitment . |
| 11 | As the market rises , so does banks ' capital , for it includes part of the unrealised gains on banks ' shareholdings ; up , too , goes banks ' ability to lend . |
| 12 | It should be more clearly aimed at such a market , for it has pretensions otherwise . |
| 13 | It is revolutionary too in its scope , for it has implications for a whole range of academic subjects in the arts and the social sciences . |
| 14 | It is a difficult concept , for it raises questions about the forces that account for its formation , as well as its modification and change . |
| 15 | A star item of a different kind was T.H. Gillespie 's Story of the Edinburgh Zoo , for it contains illustrations by Nancy Brackett , one of the first women elders at St.A 's & St.G 's . |
| 16 | Notable is greenheart , used for locks and harbour fittings and ports , as in the Panama Canal , for it withstands sea water well . |
| 17 | For it costs money to immunise needy children , investigate AIDS and treat TB , train more minimum wage workers to break out of poverty and help the displaced , including those let go from a shrinking military . |
| 18 | It is important to see in this last point a clear distinction between the term ‘ source of an instinct ’ , which would be studied by physical scientists , and the Freudian concept of instinct , which is one belonging more to mental life , for it gives rise to inner stimuli in the experience of a person . |
| 19 | Admittedly a change can be beneficial , for it gives relief , but it need only be a brief suspension of the general accompanimental rhythmic pattern . |