Example sentences of "for show " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thanks be to God for being what He is , for showing Himself to me … |
| 2 | Heart of Darkness mattered not for giving Eliot the anthropological reader a better idea of how primitive society worked , but for showing Eliot the poet that the life of the savage and that of the modern urban clerk intersected on the deepest level , the level of ‘ The Horror ’ which was , essentially for him , the realization of evil within man . |
| 3 | Soft collaring makes this mini version of the divided dress ideal for holiday wear — great for showing off tanned legs . |
| 4 | Their women were their pride and treasure , for bed , for hearth and home , for showing off , for their manhood . |
| 5 | ‘ For instance , the man who , up to a short time ago , was chosen to select films from the West for showing in Slovakia , and to attend festivals like Cannes and Venice , was a butcher by trade . |
| 6 | Mr Mellor has never been given proper credit for showing sufficient resolution during the passage of the Broadcasting Bill to persuade his colleagues that ITV deserved to have its future determined by something more subtle than a contest to see who could stuff the most pound notes into a brown envelope earmarked for the Treasury . |
| 7 | A promotional video can be prepared for showing at induction meetings for parents of new children . |
| 8 | From the balcony he thanked his many friends for their support , and the Lord God for showing the jury his divine wisdom . |
| 9 | It is the only room on the ground floor which is not required for showing to Trust visitors . |
| 10 | Many thanks for meeting myself and my colleagues last week and for showing us the area of the factory in which we can film . |
| 11 | More or less empirical screening is very unreliable for showing drugs active against cancers , but more re fined methods have evolved . |
| 12 | If it is a wet day or it has recently been raining , so much the better for showing up leaks and dampness . |
| 13 | A levels are notoriously less than perfect as a vehicle for showing this . |
| 14 | But it is a citizen of London who has left us the most elaborate rhapsody which survives from the central Middle Ages on any of the European cities of the day , and William FitzStephen 's glowing vision of the London in which his hero , archbishop Thomas Becket , was born , is a startling reminder that Londoners took fully as much pride in their city as did the Italians of their day — just as the fact that the citizens adopted Thomas Becket as their patron saint reminds us that he was martyred for showing excessive resistance to the king . |
| 15 | My sincere thanks to my amanuensis Simon Rose , to my personal assistants Cressida and Catherine and to my colleague Bargepole , for showing me the consequences of taking the wrong turning in life . |
| 16 | She 's got a lovely body , why should you criticise her for showing it off ? ’ |
| 17 | The British Show Hack , Cob and Riding Horse Association and the National Light Horse Breeding Society ( HIS ) are the bodies for showing horses , while the British Show Pony Society and the various breed societies cater for ponies . |
| 18 | For example , 30 seconds of production music on a video for showing to a non fee-paying audience ( ie. your average company video ) would cost £15 — somewhat less than £40,000 ! |
| 19 | But then again , the Golden Höfner was the flagship of the company 's electric hollow-bodied range between ‘ 59 and ‘ 62 and naturally became a platform for showing just what could be done . |
| 20 | One was to be gold , since no-one had made a gold guitar before and such an instrument would be a perfect attention-grabber , and the other was to be black , black because it looked smart and also because it was the best colour for showing off the hands of the guitarist — provided the guitarist were Caucasian , of course . |
| 21 | Three episodes of the original series were banned for showing ‘ sadism ’ , ‘ torture ’ and ‘ insanity ’ . |
| 22 | ALLAN BORDER has been fined £850 for showing dissent during the dramatic final overs of Australia 's first Test against the West Indies on Monday . |
| 23 | In practice , this means that you have to show your own original recordings either by playing them directly off the camcorder onto the colour television , or by first copying them onto one of your table-top machine cassettes for showing along with your other tapes . |
| 24 | MOST men can thank their mothers for showing them how to knot a tie . |
| 25 | ‘ Enormous admiration for showing us what a ride we are taken for by the funeral directors . |
| 26 | Gay men who had been shown a stiff cock in a public lavatory by a policeman , and were then promptly arrested for showing an interest , were n't slow to remind us that , thanks to Queen Victoria , lesbianism was not illegal . |
| 27 | FOR SHOWING THIS PICTURE TO A WOMAN |
| 28 | She was not one for showing off , she just liked to do the washing up and be there and look after everybody . |
| 29 | Like anyone who came of age during the '60s , Young owes an often acknowledged debt to Dylan , both as a songwriting influence and for showing how to turn questionable vocal talent into great singing . |
| 30 | I know we can thank them for showing some tennis , unlike ITV which does n't show any at all , but they do n't show half as much as would all like . |