Example sentences of "[be] that for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The easy way to remember it is that for a ‘ lesser ’ number of degrees , you turn ‘ left ’ , e.g. turning from 350° to 320° is turning to a lesser number and therefore you turn left . |
| 2 | The thing about sex , thought Jay , apart from everything else , is that for a few , for many , for countless seconds and sometimes glorious minutes , you stop thinking . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , and the reason we 've got no morals is that for a long time ( 150 years ) we 've been at a loose end . ' |
| 4 | Our usual joke is that for a Hungarian novelist to get published and widely read , he has first to be sent to prison . |
| 5 | The truth is that for a weekly paper in something as effervescent and ethereal as pop , all that we 've done over the last 40 years is not as important as what we do next week . |
| 6 | What is increasingly clear is that for a large number of headhunters in the major eight firms — and many of the more profitable smaller ones — this functional or industry specialisation is a key to success . |
| 7 | The practical effect of this wording is that for a claim to be covered the casualty must be reasonably attributable to an identifiable accident the source of which is external to the craft — thus the craft filling with water on its moorings over a period of weeks and then foundering would not be covered . |
| 8 | The reason for this is that for a vocabulary of size L , there exist Li-1 different histories . |
| 9 | The characteristic of all those areas is that for a long time they have been Labour controlled , although Conservatives have been in control in Brent for the past year and the Liberal Democrats have recently been in control in Tower Hamlets . |
| 10 | The usual formula is that for a period of time ending on the expiry of the initial period the parties will attempt to renegotiate the prices to apply for a further fixed period . |
| 11 | Now interest rates have come down , the latest situation is that for a high rate tax payer an instant access bank account pays less than the rate of inflation . |
| 12 | Looking ahead the likelihood is that for every percentage point of economic growth , energy demand will grow by half a percentage point . |
| 13 | This may be true but presupposes that the law in question is the one which will govern the contract , whereas the reality is that for every contract governed by that law there will be another contract governed by a foreign law with which the party concerned may be unfamiliar , which is in a foreign language he does not understand , and which , when put to the test , may prove demonstrably inferior not only to his own law but to the proposed uniform law . |
| 14 | They all suffer from a major weakness , which is that for every instance in which a word form possesses different synonyms , opposites , morphological derivatives , or whatever , in different contexts , there are several possible explanations , only one of which involves ambiguity of the word form ; hence , further evidence of a different sort is required to determine which explanation is correct in any given instance . |
| 15 | The governments ' main complaint is that for the Commission 's plan to work , a special clearing house would have to be set up to reapportion VAT revenue levied in the country of export which would be owing to that of import - where the product would be consumed . |
| 16 | The South 's case is that for the sake of the ever-improving standards of life which the North 's electorates demand , it squanders resources , poisons the atmosphere and then , to stem the environmental degradation it has caused , demands that the impoverished South forgo equality with the North in the name of salvation ! |
| 17 | What is interesting is that for the first time individual patrols would have radio communication via jeep-mounted No. 11 radio sets , but in the event of breakdowns they would also each take two pigeons . |
| 18 | The truth is that for the first month of the NME s TDFC offensive he was totally paranoid . |
| 19 | The new fact in the world 's history is that for the first time a great power with a formidable Navy , a population from which vast armies might be raised , and an economic and financial strength which might alone be decisive in any future conflict , is prepared to stake its own peace , not merely to guarantee its own interests , nor to further the partisan aims of its allies , but to make an end in the world of the possibility of prosperous aggression … . beyond the American continent her only interests are the open door to trade , freedom of the seas , and the maintenance of peace . |
| 20 | The simple truth is that for the duration of the tours rugby became the political football in the power-broking struggle currently being played out between the various factions in South African politics . |
| 21 | ‘ The reason I do n't have a band is that for the longest time I 've been disgusted with the mode that the American independent scene operates in and I do n't want to be associated with that . |
| 22 | The result is that for the first time this season those of us whose attachment to the Welsh All Blacks can not be broken can start to look ahead with optimism . |
| 23 | One symptom of the pope 's embarrassment is that for the first and last time he made a concession to Anselm on the subject of the primacy of Canterbury , which we must deal with later . |
| 24 | But the real significance of the demonstration is that for the first time high-powered personal computers are capable of keeping up with normal speech without … the … speaker … doing … this . |
| 25 | An important aspect of the new Somali operation is that for the first time American soldiers have been prepared to serve under a non-American chief . |
| 26 | One respondent in this school of thought commented on the strength of the bond between even inadequate parents and children , saying : ‘ The astounding thing , in my experience as a social worker , is that for the most part kids are crazy about their parents , even when they 're being badly treated . ’ |
| 27 | The main difference between the utilitarianism of Hutcheson and Hume , and that of Bentham , is that for the former it figured mainly as an account of our actual moral feelings , whereas for the latter it was not only this but even more the basis of a critique of current morality . |
| 28 | But the real significance of the demonstration is that for the first time high-powered personal computers are capable of keeping up with normal speech without … the … speaker … doing … this . |
| 29 | The argument , then , is that for the young child , the familiar adult ( e.g. , parent ) is seen not only as a resource from which the child obtains all sorts of information , but also as an extension of the child 's cognitive and communicative system — a communicative support system ( CoSS ) . |
| 30 | " My only consolation is that for the first time in her life Horatia is in pain . |