Example sentences of "for the [adj] [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly it is all about hard work , grafting for each other and scratching for the odd result that might suddenly spark your confidence . |
| 2 | How do you pay for the electrical energy that you use ? |
| 3 | Over-borrowing should have been shunned , for the elementary reason that a decline in over-geared profitability can destroy the net worth of shareholders . |
| 4 | It is for the HVS–E1 climber that the crag has most to offer though , and a short tour along the edge taking in the following climbs will not disappoint . |
| 5 | The temptation to say the coin caused the bar to come out can be explained by seeing it for the ordinary cause that it was , and of what event it was the cause , and of what nearby event it was not the cause . |
| 6 | It was fairly clear that there was going to be some smuggling as well but , even allowing for the often-repeated story that other ships lay over the horizon and sent boats in to add to the stock on board the single ship , the net profits from the ship could hardly have been much more than twice those of the slave-trading . |
| 7 | The H16 engine was designed for the 3-litre formula that came into effect in 1966 and was developed from mating a pair of the 1.5-litre V8s that had been so successful in the preceding years . |
| 8 | In 1984 " Union Jack " Hayward received £50,000 to console him for the untrue allegation that he was involved in a murder plot . |
| 9 | The focal point for the exclusive society that was Everton in the first half of the nineteenth century was St George 's church , which was built in 1814 to the designs of Thomas Rickman ; it was the first church in the world to use cast iron extensively . |
| 10 | I have a picture in my mind still of endless queues of captives waiting under guard to mount the steps of the Aztec temples where the priests of Huitzilopochtli stood waiting with obsidian stone knives , hands and faces black with caked blood , their robes stiff with it , as they worked industriously to open up each human chest , extract the still-palpitating heart , offering it to their filthy god , then tossing the torn-open body back down the steps to the waiting warriors below , who hacked it into joints for the ritual cannibalism that ensured both the pleasures of the flesh and added prowess from the absorption of the captive joint into their own live bodies . |
| 11 | Nobody would have known that he was planning to puff on home-grown cannabis in Wales if it had n't been for the ironic coincidence that another Mr Perkins had mistakenly opened a package addressed to the actor . |
| 12 | As such , she qualifies for The Professional Plan that is on offer from BNP . |
| 13 | What emerges from an examination of the FFYP is that it set a pattern for the Soviet economy that persists up to the present day . |
| 14 | The doubt in his tone was understandable , for the sodden object that was reposing in the middle of a puddle bore small resemblance to any form of headgear . |
| 15 | It was just bad luck for the second man that it had been a good place . |
| 16 | We learned for the second time that old London Underground trains never die : they are sold for another quarter-century 's work on the Isle of Wight . |
| 17 | Ward J. took evidence on the telephone from Dr. F. , who had spoken to Miss T. in the maternity unit after she had stated for the second time that she did not wish to have a blood transfusion and before she had signed the refusal form . |
| 18 | And it , it has huge implications for the Communist Party that look a rural revolution is taking place and it 's being led by the peasantry . |
| 19 | I applied for the occasional post that I thought might be interesting , but never heard anything back . |
| 20 | Finally he suggested that the committee would have to look both at the alternative provision for the 16–19 age-group that was provided by BTEC , CGLI , CVPE , and RSA ( all that which is to come under the general control of the new National Council for Vocational Qualifications ) and at the extent to which pupils who have followed GCSE courses may have become accustomed to a different kind of assessment procedure from that incorporated in A levels . |
| 21 | This strange logic leaves little room for the subjective assessment that the ASB says will be necessary to determine whether derecognition is appropriate . |
| 22 | They are there for the sole reason that they bring farmers huge subsidies . |
| 23 | He buys a hugely expensive house for the sole reason that it has a view over the bay of a winking green light from Daisy 's house . |
| 24 | On the A forty-three in Oxfordshire , just north of Enstone , some temporary traffic lights there are holding drivers up for the resurfacing work that 's going on there — a little bit of extra care should be taken . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'll kill that bloody cat , ’ he muttered , and groped for the spare box that was normally on the ledge by the door . |
| 26 | He called his acceptance of human sexuality and respect for the female energy Red Thread Zen , acknowledging that life itself would not exist if not for the umbilical cord that connects us to the feminine . |
| 27 | The plan contained no provisions for the long-term clean-up that would have been necessary if the tanker had been carrying heavier crude . |
| 28 | Given the comparative naiveté of popular and vernacular idioms , Schoenberg 's liberation of dissonance ( ‘ enlarging the boundaries of the permissible ’ , as Debussy put it ) posed difficulties for the average listener that remain a subject of controversy . |
| 29 | She forced hatred to her soul , for him and for the unwanted desire that leapt unbidden to her pulses at the taste of his mouth on hers . |
| 30 | He has little sympathy for the Arab nationalism that destroyed the Jews of Baghdad and the Christian Assyrians , and he quotes at length from Stephen Bloom 's ‘ almost lyrical ’ account of a Romanian childhood where Germans , Slovaks , Russians , Greeks , Turks , Armenians and Jews provided harmonious diversity . |