Example sentences of "[conj] for [adj] its [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact remains that for all its crassness and naivety , the American experiment is a colossal testimony to the importance of faith in human life . ’ |
| 2 | His normally responsive facial expression was firmly controlled ; an Oxford contemporary remembered that for all its serenity an observer seemed ‘ to be gazing upon some great portrait of a face rather than upon a face ’ . |
| 3 | Yet Jaq feared that for all its power the Imperium was slowly succumbing to the attentions of aliens , of renegades , of daemons . |
| 4 | It must be remembered that for all its world status and the great influence it has upon the rest of the airworthiness authorities of the western world , the FAA is after all made up of fallible human beings . |
| 5 | Another controversial aspect of the road plan was the recommendation that for half its length it should be routed through land belonging to Manuel Zelaya , a powerful Honduran sawmill owner . |
| 6 | I hate to see ‘ Guernica ’ in a museum whose sights are set on the future , having left once and for all its mausoleum in the Valley of the Fallen , to prove to the world what it is : an extraordinary composition suffocated by an excess of sentimentality , distorted by the deranged howls of the media . |
| 7 | The money was as shadowily outlined as the permission , but , like the EFR agreement itself , it revealed the government 's unwillingness to relinquish once and for all its place in the search for inexhaustible energy . |
| 8 | Nothing that would stand looking at too closely , of course , but it was like all the best illusions that she 'd ever seen , onstage or off because for all its contrivance , in the moment of perception it somehow transcended reality . |
| 9 | It is a real mountain town , though for all its remoteness one of the oldest and best patronized of the Pyrenean spas , once , as I have said , managed by the monks of Saint-Savin . |