Example sentences of "[adv] for the [noun sg] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Houghton convinced himself he was searching so avidly for the match that he was almost willing himself to find it . |
| 2 | It was enough for the Church that a corpse had been presented for burial . |
| 3 | X died in March , but it was close enough for the connection that Eliot wrote of in The Waste Land : |
| 4 | If there is enough to suggest that it is more probable that the offence took place , that is enough for the action that was taken by all the agencies involved in Orkney . |
| 5 | I can not say thank you enough for the effort that has gone on . ’ |
| 6 | Consent in such circumstances does not have to be formally registered : it is enough for the regime that it can count , in practice , on the support and co-operation of key sectors of the population . |
| 7 | So much for the idea that two-tier pricing will somehow be too complicated . |
| 8 | Erm can we can you as part of the discussion , can you start off by saying well thank you very much for the call that you gave me last week but erm erm there 's there 's just a couple of sizes I 'd like to talk talk to you about . |
| 9 | and er , which we finished , and I would really just like to say that erm , thanks very much for the cooperation that we received from the offices generally across the authority . |
| 10 | So much for the claim that science does not involve causation . |
| 11 | The first idea is of a metaphorical and anthropomorphic kind , and the second and third also call out for analysis , if only for the reason that there are other non-causal pairs of things such that the first explains the second and the second depends on the first . |
| 12 | With the advent of Lloyd George , who as President of the Board proved to be no mean performer at the art of conciliation , the policy of promoting " permanent machinery " , industry by industry , for the settlement of disputes began to move into top gear , if only for the reason that no alternative policy seemed to be available . |
| 13 | The Colonial Secretary , Oliver Lyttleton , announced in October that all the proposals were accepted save only for the suggestion that the Gold Coast should at once be transferred from the Colonial Office to the Commonwealth Relations Office . |
| 14 | Only for the statement that Molla Fenari turned over the kadilik of Bursa to his son , Yusuf Bali , as naib , does Husameddin offer any source , this being a signature of Molla Husrev 's on a copy of a originally drawn up in late Jumada II 821/late May-early June 1418 attesting that " it " had been written by " Mawlana Sinan al-Din Yusuf Bali b. al-Mawla al-Fenari " . |
| 15 | This was a short-lived club , but important if only for the fact that it drew up the first Breed Standard in 1901 . |
| 16 | It is not quite so important to duplicate the reel , but it is still wise , if only for the fact that your spare spools are interchangeable on both reels . |
| 17 | In its flight from the French security services once the war in Europe had broken out , the Party had , if only inadvertently , operationalized its interest in the peasantry ; if only for the fact that , in leaving the towns , they were now living amongst them . |
| 18 | In its own way the co-operative was quite a success story if only for the fact that it had kept going more or less continuously for almost five years . |
| 19 | It is worth emphasising again , however , that these traditions are , apparently , of relatively recent origin and that there is early authority only for the fact that Molla Fenari was Mufti ( except , perhaps , in so far as it may be argued from Taskopruzade that he was the first Mufti , as noted at the beginning of the chapter ) . |
| 20 | Both for not being prepared , not giving the opening of this course the importance that it did deserve , and obviously for the embarrassment that er you must have felt having to sit there while I made a total fool of myself . |
| 21 | ’ We commended Mr Canning very highly for the work that he 's done on that particular churchyard . ’ |
| 22 | So for the marque that 's become synonymous with Agent 007 , who better than former Bond girl , Fiona Fullerton unveil it ? |
| 23 | He claimed later that he had done so for the reason that a few months earlier he had sold a stallion to Dunlop which had died within a few weeks and that his motive had been to recompense Dunlop for his loss . |
| 24 | The definition is adopted , of course , not merely for the reason that it gives us a further explanation of the difference between causal items and their effects . |
| 25 | This defence of Marxism carries over , however , to a critique of Modernism itself : not merely for the fact that Nietzsche attaches ‘ importance ’ to art but for the further claim ascribed to him , and therefore to Modernism itself , that ‘ the nature of aesthetic experience contains in nuce the form of understanding proper to the world itself ( p. 66 ) . |
| 26 | It 's a very striking book because while on the one hand he admires the Bolsheviks very greatly for the hope that they have given to man , for the feeling that they have given to the world that new potentialities are there to be realized if only we had enough courage , yet on the other hand , even at that point , he was acutely conscious that the Bolsheviks ' attitude towards the equality of power was leading them in a fatal direction , and long before Stalinism began to take shape , he described in advance what he expected to come . |
| 27 | ‘ It did our heads in a bit , freaked us out just for the fact that everybody who 's ever met us in the business knows exactly how we are . |
| 28 | Do n't have it just for the thing that 's free inside . |
| 29 | I pay tribute to them tonight for the work that they have undertaken in an attempt to keep us aware of what is happening out there . |
| 30 | One recalls Peter Medawar 's opening line ( ’ Arthur Koestler is a very clever , knowledgeable and inventive man , and The Act of Creation is very clever too ’ ) largely for the blast that followed . |