Example sentences of "[conj] for [adj] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An image of God as a person like ourselves — for instance an old man on a cloud , or for that matter a young man from Nazareth — can , therefore , be deeply misleading . |
| 2 | But if only I had been right , if only it were just Kinnock , or for that matter a couple of remediable policies or the voting system , that were the problem . |
| 3 | In the present case , there is no express or implied requirement in the Criminal Justice Act 1967 that a decision fixing the tariff period , or for that matter a decision to release a prisoner on licence , must be taken by the Secretary of State personally . |
| 4 | They could be applied to anything regardless of whether it was an Oxford College , or for that matter an oak tree or my dog . |
| 5 | To get back to Markowitz 's original proxy for the risk of a portfolio ( or for that matter an individual security ) , the standard deviation of the returns , one only has to find the square root of the total portfolio variance . |
| 6 | It 's not much use arriving somewhere at ten in the morning clutching the collected works under your arm and wishing you had a wig and been born thirty years earlier in order to play Lear — or for that matter the Duke of Gloucester . |
| 7 | What was he thinking now , or for that matter the parents of any youngsters in the vicinity ? |
| 8 | To believe the brochures , or for that matter the cover of the South American Handbook with its exotic bright orange cock of the rock ( Rupicola rupicola ) , is to be disappointed . |
| 9 | Schubert and Schumann could whimsically be described as poets , but calling Horowitz a poet is as silly as calling Lawrence Olivier a poet , or for that matter the builders who followed Wren 's drawings and erected St. Paul 's Cathedral . |
| 10 | The feet being wide apart means that he can not move his feet properly to the short , or for that matter the full-length , delivery . |
| 11 | If the shampoo-swilling celebrants of the City , or for that matter the likes of true-blue Sheppard , think for a moment that this man is likely to preside over unfettered mergers and acquisitions activity in the recalcitrant manner of his 12 predecessors since 1979 , they are hopelessly wide of the mark . |
| 12 | Gandhi and Nehru , Mandela and Mugabe , or for that matter the late Zulfikhar Bhutto , who complained about the absence of a sense of Pakistani nationhood , are or were not nationalists in the sense of Landsbergis or Tudjman . |
| 13 | As are considerations that go a step beyond them , such as a policeman 's attitude to his wife and family ( he is stopped from going off duty at the time his wife expects : what will be her reaction ? ) or an unmarried policeman 's love life , or for that matter the love life of a policeman who is cheating on his wife . |
| 14 | Erm you have n't had the the figures of the local authorities erm on that or for that matter the public at large which I think is important . |
| 15 | As is unhappily all too apparent to the student of human nature , purely conscious intentions , even when whole-heartedly adhered to , are ready subject matter for forgetting , for mistakes , or for plain abandonment the moment something more interesting or more desirable comes along . |
| 16 | There is also the adjective so-called , which in a comparably explicit way calls into question the relation between an entity and the description or properties which might be supposed to belong to it : ( 42 ) it is the so-called liberals who have closed down the press The author of this sentence is not casting doubt on the existence of the people he is writing about , nor on the existence of such properties as may be characterized by the word liberals ( nor for that matter the existence of people who might be so described ) but only on the validity of the relationship between the description " liberals " and the people who are acting as censors in the situation portrayed by this particular sentence . |
| 17 | He then assumes that for each country the rate of growth of aggregate demand or nominal spending has followed a very simple process ; that is , where is the rate of growth of the ith country 's nominal spending , is the mean value of over the whole period , and is the deviation of from its mean . |
| 18 | By reading off the plotted points can you see that for each point the x value is equal to the y value . |
| 19 | If the degree of rotation was very small , so that for each dot the nearest neighbour is its own image , this would not be surprising : all that need be done is to draw imaginary lines between all pairs of nearest neighbours , and those lines will circle the centre of rotation . |
| 20 | We assumed that for each participant the occurrence of short spells followed a Poisson distribution . |
| 21 | In Textermination the variety of reading experiences is ensured by the fact that for each reader the ‘ gaps of indeterminacy ’ will be different . |
| 22 | ( b ) The payer has the opportunity of contesting his liability in proceedings , but instead gives way and pays : see e.g. , Henderson v. Folkestone Waterworks Co. ( 1885 ) 1 T.L.R. 329 , and Sargood Brothers v. The Commonwealth , 11 C.L.R. 258 , especially at p. 301 , per Isaacs J. So where money has been paid under pressure of actual or threatened legal proceedings for its recovery , the payer can not say that for that reason the money has been paid under compulsion and is therefore recoverable by him . |
| 23 | I think that for that reason the county court judge came to a correct conclusion . |
| 24 | They tend to think of profits as being directly related to the volume of sales and find it confusing that for one year the reported sales are higher than the previous year but the reported net profit is lower . |
| 25 | The Jerusalem Post of Dec. 29 pointed out that for first time the USA had backed a resolution in the Council ( as opposed to the General Assembly ) which referred to " all the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967 , including Jerusalem " . |
| 26 | If a circular cylinder of orthotropic symmetry is used with axis along 3 , the apparent shear modulus to insert in Equation ( 5.3 ) is so that for this geometry a unique value for is unobtainable . |
| 27 | It will be clear that for this approach an artefact which already embodies a categorization process is clearly distinguished from a natural object which does not . |
| 28 | But that is precisely what is needed , and it is disappointing that for this reason the government has drawn back from attempting reform . |
| 29 | Note that for synchronous rotation the orbital and axial periods not only have to be equal but also both prograde or both retrograde . |
| 30 | It so happens that for some distance the Gill itself forms the boundary between that estate and the Manor of Coniston , although it is possible that the boundary between the two manors was rather ill-defined at that time . |