Example sentences of "that pass for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sat in the corner of the Silver Shuriken , as far away from the bleeding video jukebox and bleeping zapper games as possible , sipping the foul antifreeze that passed for beer in the U.S. of Bloody A. He would have cut off his left doughnut and sold it to Johnny Galtieri for a pint of Six X Wadsworth , two bacon-and-cheddar sarnies and a packet of crisps with a blue twist of salt in them . |
| 2 | Duncan asked , now sprawled on the bed , his legs crossed and his head resting against a thin cushion that passed for a pillow . |
| 3 | There was criticism of much that passed for training . |
| 4 | She strode out of the cupboard that passed for the shuttle 's sick bay and into the cabin . |
| 5 | He had pulled the band of material that passed for a skirt up around her waist and was tugging at the top of her tights . |
| 6 | Chips with everything from the leathery slices of roast meat , through the squidgy fish cooked in cardboard batter to the limp arrangements of greenery that passed for salads . |
| 7 | To confront the anger of God in the way the ancient Israelites dared to do , to face it as directed against ourselves and the society of which we are so much a part , is to escape the romantic pretence , the unrelieved jollity , or the easy , unthinking speech of so much that passes for Christian belief and worship . |
| 8 | While it is true that the warmth of hospitality , generosity and friendliness to be found in the West of Scotland has no equal , it is also true that the depths of rudeness and disgustingly mannered carelessness that passes for ethnic character are rarely surpassed . |
| 9 | But that 's perfectly OK for the American administration 's ad hoc knee-jerk set of reactions that passes for their foreign policy . |
| 10 | It proposed a shot-gun marriage between two parties who , so far from having anticipated the bliss of that honourable estate , had ventured nothing much more than the frozen smile of recognition that passes for politeness between opponents who see in one another much to dislike and little to love . |
| 11 | ‘ [ ‘ Terminus ’ ] in the understanding of the law does not only signify the limits and limitation of time , but also the estate and interest that passes for that time . |
| 12 | Witness in the New Testament is neither the silent churchgoing that passes for witness among many Christians , nor the sickening self-advertisement that often results when a believer ‘ gives his testimony ’ ; but simple factual reference to the historical Jesus , his death and resurrection , his gift of the Spirit , and his present availability and power . |
| 13 | Well , I think a lot of what happens in the academic world is , and my guess is the fundamental reason they get away with it , is that young people wo n't buy much , spending their own money on it , and I think if they were , you could n't serve up a lot of the crap that passes for higher education today . |
| 14 | On the wall that passes for a kitchen , Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas stare down in fastidious disapproval at Anya 's batterie de cuisine , unfit for whipping up their favourite hashish fudge . |
| 15 | That 's because it 's a breath of fresh air compared to some of the muck that passes for music in the popular music charts . |
| 16 | Yet even in the screwed-up mayhem that passes for Yankie suburbia , Michael and Karen Carr ( Kurt Russell and Madeleine Stowe ) have been raised to trust such people . |
| 17 | Statements that pass for communication , as the Grants came to realize , are often punitive messages . |
| 18 | The suspension was typically soggy yet still failed to cope with the craters that pass for potholes in New York City . |
| 19 | Instead , their main , if not their only , function is to serve as ‘ relays ’ — human boosters for the faint , unfocused signals that pass for communication in the traditional pre-information organization . |