Example sentences of "[be] that for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My experience has been that for many people there is not all that difference between bringing ‘ God ’ in and touching wood . |
| 2 | ‘ The consequence has been that for some time , by mutual agreement , we have led more separate lives . ’ |
| 3 | The effect has been that for most of this century Britain has had to hold interest rates higher than has been necessary or desirable . |
| 4 | One explanation for this may be that for many jobs it is high productivity which leads to low job satisfaction . |
| 5 | The suspicion must be that for all their draconian nature , Hitler 's comments on the Jews were regarded as stereotype repetition , and of little interest compared with his assessment of the war situation . |
| 6 | As the accompanying article by a Yugoslav investigative journalist suggests , however , it may well be that for political reasons the Yugoslavs have been fighting the case with at least one hand tied behind their back . |
| 7 | It may be that for any individual to succeed in any organisation then he or she will need some or all of the qualities listed above . |
| 8 | It could also be that for some of you 1988 has also seen some trouble , a bereavement perhaps , that has shaken you to the foundations . |
| 9 | It may indeed be that for some teachers there really is no possibility of working with real integrity , and consequently no possibility of deriving any deep satisfaction from what they do . |
| 10 | It could well be that for some musical purposes the above result may contain too great an element of consonance in the form of triads . |
| 11 | However , it may be that for bipolar disorders there is an inherited deficit , while for milder disorders the deficit may come about in other ways ( Akiskal , 1979 ) . |
| 12 | There is no mention in the Project booklet of the use of the school library resource centre itself and it may be that for this age group in their first extended piece of work in the school it was felt that moving out of the year base into another area involved more planning , supervision or simple hazard than the staff were ready to face . |
| 13 | But God ‘ misreads ’ what is going on ( how is that for audacious storytelling ! ) and is conscious only of the threat to his domain . |
| 14 | I suppose one of the things I use to demonstrate it most clearly is that for many years I s I gave lectures on communications and one of the things I used to say in those lectures was I did not know , and I was stressing that sense what came first if newspapers write stories in a particular way , because that is what the public wanted or do public want a particular type of story and that 's that newspapers round-up and I stopped posing that question when Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun because Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun and introduced a lot of sex-type stories you know stories about brothels and madames whipping people and goodness knows what else and the sales rocketed and there we had almost a captive example of change in the design of change in the type of stories that were written and people , people were buying it and so you have an issue of you know that your content was actually being by what your readership wanted . |
| 15 | The history of this is that for many years M O D were unhappy about expansion of the , of the port er , for commercial use and the reason they were unhappy of course was that erm commercial use was competition that they felt would be likely to drive up wages . |
| 16 | Is that for real ? ’ |
| 17 | Fucking hell is that the one , is that for one answer ? |
| 18 | though , is that for all the skill of the anti-missile scientists , we can not underestimate the inventiveness of the missile makers . |
| 19 | Of many practical uses , the most common is that for indestructible envelopes . |
| 20 | I mean , is that for five of them , is n't it ? |
| 21 | What that basically means again is that for this particular blank here that we 're look at okay , the state value U might be one the weight might be one okay and we get that out of that cos we 're just going through all these here and seeing which one 's going to be one . |
| 22 | Is that for any particular reason ? |
| 23 | How 's that for instant character analysis ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ How 's that for one of ‘ Nature 's Designs ’ ? ’ suggested Jack . |
| 25 | How 's that for straight down Lane , straight over lights up hill , along the top here . |
| 26 | Charlie 's abiding memory of the speech was that for fifteen minutes the horse never moved . |
| 27 | Indeed , the implication of his resignation letter was that for five years there had been conflict at the very heart of the government that had precipitated the earlier resignations of Heseltine , Lawson and , in July 1990 , Nicholas Ridley , the Trade and industry Secretary ( the last after he had expressed intemperate views about Britain 's European partners that many observers believed the Prime Minister herself shared ) . |
| 28 | The truth was that for four years Fittipaldi had come close to dominating motor racing in the way Jackie had before him : after two indifferent early years learning his trade , he had been champion twice ( in 1972 and 1974 ) and come second in 1973 and 1975 . |
| 29 | One interesting finding of this exercise was that for each age group the age of the healthy person approximated to the individual 's broad cohort group . |
| 30 | The first , a matter of convenience and cost , was that for these figures we were able to rely in part on a large survey of lending rates published last year by Consumers ' Association ( Which ? |