Example sentences of "[that] for every [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been estimated that for every hour of brisk walking , you can add one extra hour to the length of your life . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We ought first to remind ourselves that for every type of animal throughout time there has always been a most convenient size that has fitted it neatly into its own niche . |
| 4 | Soon afterwards exactly such a particle — the antielectron , or positron — was detected , and we now know that for every type of particle there is an appropriate antiparticle . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The marginal propensity to import is also 0.2 , so that for every £10 million rise in income , spending on imports rises by £2 million and the consumption of home-produced goods and services rises by £6 million . |
| 7 | The Indian government has ordered that for every tree felled , two more must be planted in its place — and this is actually happening . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's quite likely that for every case of reported illness there are ten to a hundred more , ’ said Jim Curran , the AIDS task force chairman at the CCD , who was seconded to the job for three months in 1981 and is now permanent The incubation period is unusually long — possibly as much as three years . |
| 9 | The proximity of the two articles demonstrates the sad fact that for every case of human suffering Amnesty International seeks to alleviate , there are many other innocent people whose human rights are routinely abused . |
| 10 | They guarantee that for every £100 nominal worth of gilts bought by an investor , £100 will be paid on maturity , plus the increase in the Retail Prices Index over the years to that maturity . |
| 11 | But I believe that for every £100 million spent on sewers , the present real cost to this nation of tax payers would be rather less than £50 million . |
| 12 | An even harder-hitting report from the National Association of Citizen 's Advice Bureaux claimed that for every council house in the country there are ten people on the waiting lists . |
| 13 | Hence he envisages that for every sphere of public- or private-sector activity there should be established some arena of potentially destabilising and broadly-based conflict over the use of that power . |
| 14 | It is not surprising that for every evaluation of a conservation programme or policy , there are perhaps ten of conservation techniques . |
| 15 | Looking ahead the likelihood is that for every percentage point of economic growth , energy demand will grow by half a percentage point . |
| 16 | How to achieve a balance between the funding of ‘ software ’ and ‘ hardware ’ was a related difficulty : in 1981 the Socialist Culture Minister , Jack Lang , urged that for every franc spent on conduits ( ‘ tuyaux ’ ) a franc should be spent on programming — the inference was that ‘ conduits ’ had received priority treatment under Giscard , and French TV channels and cinemas suffered from a lack of French-made programmes and films . |
| 17 | It is assumed that for every action the operator has a purpose , the choice of the particular action at the particular time or point in the sequence is triggered by some other event , usually the successful completion of an action is indicated by a particular information presentation which also is noted on the chart . |
| 18 | The council leader , Louise Ellman , said it was feared that for every job lost directly , at least another two were in jeopardy in feeder factories or large businesses . |
| 19 | Indeed it probably encouraged them , though it must never be forgotten that for every nursemaid or gardener who lived out their lives in the service of one family there were a hundred country girls who passed briefly through the household to pregnancy , marriage or another job , being treated merely as yet another instance of that ‘ servant problem ’ which filled the conversations of their mistresses . |
| 20 | It is estimated that for every cigarette you smoke you shorten your life span by five minutes . |
| 21 | The Workbooks mirror the Student 's Books so that for every Student 's Book unit , there is a parallel page of Workbook exercises . |
| 22 | Second let us suppose that you are told that for every counter that you place in the jar within thirty seconds you will receive a pound coin . |
| 23 | Third , you are told that for every counter that you fail to get into the jar within thirty seconds you will have a finger chopped off . |
| 24 | The agent would agree with the promoter that for every pound taken on the door , the artist will receive a certain percentage . |
| 25 | However , if the deal were , for instance , a 90 : 10 split and not a gross deal , the promoter would realize that for every pound he or she spends on costs , 90 pence of that pound belongs to the artist . |
| 26 | It is estimated that for every pound a farmer spends on fertilizer on his fields , he can expect the rain to wash away a good fifty pence-worth . |
| 27 | He said ‘ The one thing that keeps me going is knowing that for every step I take and every pound donated we are one step nearer to finding a cure . ’ |
| 28 | Modern refining techniques mean that for every barrel of crude oil refined , there will be a split between diesel and petrol fuels that can only be varied a small amount . |