Example sentences of "for the [adj] [noun] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How do you pay for the electrical energy that you use ? |
| 2 | He also told the Minister of State for the Armed Forces that he hoped that the matter would be expedited as quickly as possible . |
| 3 | The temptation to say the coin caused the bar to come out can be explained by seeing it for the ordinary cause that it was , and of what event it was the cause , and of what nearby event it was not the cause . |
| 4 | In 1984 " Union Jack " Hayward received £50,000 to console him for the untrue allegation that he was involved in a murder plot . |
| 5 | It was just bad luck for the second man that it had been a good place . |
| 6 | Ward J. took evidence on the telephone from Dr. F. , who had spoken to Miss T. in the maternity unit after she had stated for the second time that she did not wish to have a blood transfusion and before she had signed the refusal form . |
| 7 | I applied for the occasional post that I thought might be interesting , but never heard anything back . |
| 8 | They are there for the sole reason that they bring farmers huge subsidies . |
| 9 | He buys a hugely expensive house for the sole reason that it has a view over the bay of a winking green light from Daisy 's house . |
| 10 | This has had such far reaching implications for the Western world that it deserves mention here . |
| 11 | I propose to devote a whole chapter to so-called ‘ association copies ’ , partly for the selfish reason that I am myself devoted to them and partly because , looking at them as objectively as I can , they seem to me to offer one of the most satisfying branches of book-collecting , especially to anyone with the slightest sense of history . |
| 12 | The first one on our list tonight , ah , one seven nine , is for the young ladies that we 've just seen , with a production of their book , A Dog Called Mock , and I think that we er , talked about this , and asked them to come in , because we wanted to know the substance , and whether this thing was actually taking place , and what was , I , I , I do n't know what the rest of you feel , I think they made a fine presentation , and it 's obviously something which is going ahead , and I hope that some of you feel , we should reward initiative . |
| 13 | Not at all — the price was too good — MacDonald 's factor was far too busy agreeing a price for the young folk that he sold to the Carolina merchants . |
| 14 | Specific findings for the six companies that we were able to examine in detail are included in Appendix A to this report . |
| 15 | They won it for the outstanding service that they had given two clients , Comfort Cooling and PSA . |
| 16 | ‘ So , given that I have a political opportunity , I tend to become an enthusiast harnessing the forces that are at work , trying to get the best out of them , trying to use them for the political purposes that I believe in . |
| 17 | Parents will need to see gains in their children 's learning in return for the extra efforts that they are expected to make . |
| 18 | It went without saying that he did n't want to be seen , but it was worth the extra discomfort of hanging around for the extra information that he might pick up . |
| 19 | ‘ Darling , you always were more than grateful for the smallest things that anyone did for you , but in future you 'll be able to turn to me . ’ |
| 20 | There was clearly a danger for the Labour Party that its candidate for the premiership would not ‘ emerge ’ as a potential leader ; this was reinforced by the fact that the Labour manifesto , Let us Face the Future , did not even mention his name . |
| 21 | Does he agree that the price being paid by 2.5 million unemployed this Christmas is too high , and that if a price has to be paid for the economic mess that our country is in , it should be paid in full by himself and his ragbag of right hon. Friends ? |
| 22 | That realisation is a product of the power of rational thought which came to the emerging ‘ human' ’ being in the course of the evolutionary process , for it is in remote retrospect that man can now see that the division of the first cell was a ‘ good ’ event , and had to be defined as such for the unanswerable reason that it could not have been anything else , otherwise there was nothing that could be defined as the origin of ‘ good ’ that was not dependent on dogma and superstition . |
| 23 | I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his welcome for President Yeltsin 's visit , and for the broad welcome that he gave to the outcome of last week 's United Nations meeting . |
| 24 | He thought that the discount for contingencies should be comparatively small and that the £10,000 the widow received from the estate should give rise to a deduction of £200 from the annual dependency for the accelerated benefit that she received by obtaining it on his death . |
| 25 | It has to be possible to dream and speak the unthinkable , for the only thing that we do know is that we shall not know what tomorrow 's world will be like . |
| 26 | I , I 'm not for a minute suggesting that er th that for the small projects that we do that . |
| 27 | Certain social bonds are essential for the highest activities that we are capable of , so that the antithesis ‘ bond or free ’ was always a tendentious one . |
| 28 | Jessica Rawson , Keeper of Oriental Antiquities at the British Museum , had to struggle for the gilded walls that she wanted for her newly redisplayed 2000 square-metre gallery ( opening 11 November ) ; traditionally the British Museum has had an austere , even puritanical approach to interior decoration . |
| 29 | ‘ Miss Lilian has an appetite fit for the good trooper that she is . |
| 30 | These are caves you should see , for the good reason that they were lived in . |