Example sentences of "[vb past] that for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I never doubted that for a moment , ’ he replied in an extremely charming , yet at the same time insolent , tone . |
| 2 | The 1977 Royal Commission on the Press found that for a quality newspaper , production costs accounted for 31% of total costs ; the next largest group of costs were attributed to newsprint and ink . |
| 3 | Filmer 's neck muscles slowly relaxed , and I realized that for a moment he must have suspected that the scene had been specifically aimed at him . |
| 4 | The courts have recently demonstrated a reaction against an absurdly over-generous approach to the construction of agreements in the employee 's favour : see Home Counties Dairies Ltd v Skilton [ 1970 ] 1 WLR 526 in which the defendant was employed by the plaintiffs as a milkman and he expressly agreed that for a period of one year after his employment terminated he would not 'serve or sell milk or dairy produce " to any person who had been a customer of his employers and who had been served by him during the six months prior to his leaving . |
| 5 | They agreed that for the moment they would say nothing about it to Ebenezer . |
| 6 | But he realised that for a man like Lancaster — trusting and timid — the betrayal would have been much , much worse . |
| 7 | Presumably Philip judged that for the moment he had no means of putting pressure on either Henry or Richard which would be both legitimate and effective . |
| 8 | As far as the contribution of the residual factors is concerned , Denison estimated that for the period 1929–57 , economies of scale at the national and local level accounted for 0.35 per cent and advances in knowledge for 0.58 per cent . |
| 9 | The bishop declared that for a clerk in holy orders to sit as a justice in eyre for forest pleas was contrary to the canons of the Church , and rendered him ineligible for an office involving the cure of souls . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The whole subject was brought to a sudden climax when Hilbert in 1888 showed that for a form of any degree in any number of variables a finite " basis " always exists — and this without giving any indication of how to find such a set in any particular instance ! |
| 12 | This was achieved by Debye in 1944 , who showed that for a solute whose molecules are small compared with the wavelength of the light used , the reduced angular scattering intensity of the solute is and that this is related to the change in Gibbs free energy with concentration of the solute . |
| 13 | Later figures showed that for the whole of 1922 over twice as much grain was transported by rail and waterways as in 1921 . |
| 14 | Other influential evidence was provided by Phillips ( 1958 ) who showed that for the UK for almost 100 years before the late 1950s there appeared to exist a stable relationship — which became known as the Phillips curve — between a real variable , unemployment , and the rate of change of a nominal variable , nominal wages . |
| 15 | I forgot that for a while during the '80s but I 'm back now , ’ Starr said . |
| 16 | Wexford waited patiently , for he guessed that for a moment the man was totally unable to speak . |
| 17 | Jay Barlow of the US discovered that for the vaquita , new births into the population each year almost exactly balanced the losses through natural mortality . |
| 18 | ‘ But I only stuck that for a couple of weeks , ’ he says , ‘ for I was playing guitar at a party one night in Cleveland , Ohio , and he said there were easier ways of making money out there than working the building sites . |
| 19 | We decided that for the Capital Guarantee Bond we would advertise in the national press . |
| 20 | As he had not decided what purpose their relationship should have , he decided that for the moment they should meet as little as possible . |
| 21 | Conference delegates endorsed their leader 's determined stand after Roy Hattersley , Labour 's deputy leader , warned that for the party to concede demands for PR would be ‘ an act of historic folly ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | We watched that for a bit , then took the first tube of the day round to a friend 's place for a while . |
| 24 | In particular it caused the bankruptcy of the BCR , which meant that for the rest of its life it was in the hands of the Receiver . |
| 25 | In Acts 8 , I saw that for the converts in Samaria , although wonderfully converted and delivered from evil ( v 7 ) and baptised ( v 12 ) , there was still something missing . |
| 26 | One of the most significant constitutional developments of the nineteenth century , however , had been the emergence of the primacy of the House of Commons and , whereas it was tolerable that the Commons should reject a Lords Bill , it was becoming felt that for the Lords to reject a Commons Bill was inconsistent with the newly established democratic basis of the British political system . |
| 27 | The committee thought that for a grass court tournament she should be marginally favoured over Sanchez Vicario . ’ |
| 28 | But the chapter , having no protector after God unless it be the Roman pontiff , asserted that for a certainty unless he had that church demolished the metropolitical dignity would , for the most part , be transferred to it . |
| 29 | From the November replies , for example , it appeared that for the peak year for absenteeism , S5 , 27% of the pupils were authorised absentees at least once during the week , while 15% were unauthorised absentees . |
| 30 | Perhaps he said that for the benefit of Signor fragolli , so I just said , ‘ OK . ’ |