Example sentences of "that for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ However , in due course a few , a very few indeed , intelligent teachers came to take a cool look at what was happening and they realised that for the vast majority of children the majority of our educational processes add about as much to the mental stature of our children as a diet of sawdust would add to their physical stature … . , |
| 2 | It seems that for the vast majority of dog owners , the very presence of canine company simply makes us feel good . |
| 3 | There is the irony : that , just when British Empirical Socialism had come to terms with the idea of a mixed economy , when it had accepted that for the indefinite future a public sector and a private sector would co-exist , when the tangle of objections which the Webbs had seen to the development of a privately-owned industrial co-operative sector had been so far cleared away as to open the path to a natural growth of industrial democracy by a means which , because it reconciled the rights and interests of labour with those of ownership , would have been sustainable , the Labour Government ignored or overlooked the opportunity . |
| 4 | The first defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the deputy judge had been wrong in law in holding that for the substituted section 9 ( b ) of the Wills Act 1837 to be satisfied the testator had to make his signature after making the dispositive provisions ; and ( 2 ) there was no sufficient evidence upon which the deputy judge could have found that the testator had not been of testamentary capacity at the time he had made and signed the alleged codicil on 18 April 1986 . |
| 5 | In fairness it should be added that for the female guests the question of rooms was as much an affair of space as of rank , since many arrived with anything up to 25 pieces of luggage , clear proof that at Compiègne , unlike Fontainebleau , style played a primary role . |
| 6 | The House of Commons , understandably — again , with some justification but not with total justification — will assume that for the other member states the double hesitation by the United Kingdom was the crucial aspect of the agreements at Maastricht , but it was not . |
| 7 | The argument , then , is that for the young child , the familiar adult ( e.g. , parent ) is seen not only as a resource from which the child obtains all sorts of information , but also as an extension of the child 's cognitive and communicative system — a communicative support system ( CoSS ) . |
| 8 | A ‘ hard case ’ — and I am not disputing that for the Bland parents it is indeed a very hard case — has been found which can , and I believe will , be skilfully exploited to justify the ‘ dignified ’ removal of a subtly-expanding range of people who will be deemed to be living lives which are below some ‘ expert 's ’ criterion of an acceptable standard . |
| 9 | It is for this reason that for the central part of the projects we selected representative variables that occur frequently and can therefore be quantified in terms of the full range of speaker-variables . |
| 10 | It has therefore frequently been maintained that for the ancient Hebrews time was a unidirectional linear process extending from the divine act of creation to the ultimate accomplishment of God 's purpose and the final triumph , here on earth , of the chosen people , Israel . |
| 11 | It is noticeable that for the distant past of language orthodox models of change , such as the Indo-European family-tree model , are mainly models of divergence ( in these models languages are envisaged , like galaxies , as moving away from one another at considerable speed ) , whereas for recent centuries models of language history are predominantly convergent . |
| 12 | Mosley 's opposition to this national change of mood meant that for the small minority who still wished to maintain the peace of Europe at any price , he was momentarily seen as an alternative leader who would keep Britain out of a war . |
| 13 | It was noteworthy that for the overall group of schools involved in the survey , few reported any involvement by school boards in problems of attendance or in improving attendance . |
| 14 | argue that for the social sciences a key research priority should also be an improved understanding of the deep-rooted social and instinctive relationships and processes to which the conscious aspects of the mind are subjected . |
| 15 | An examination of magistrates courts revealed that for the under-21 population , black youth on average received 12 months imprisonment , whilst white youth only 9 months for similar offences . |
| 16 | Nearly 10,000 delegates voted for ( i ) the introduction of direct and secret ballots for all internal party elections except that for the national executive committee ; ( ii ) the reduction of national executive seats from 37 to nine ; ( iii ) increased consultation at grassroots level on party policy and an end to PRI headquarters interference in the party affairs of the state ; and ( iv ) the nomination of the presidential candidate by a PRI national convention of democratically elected delegates and not by the outgoing President as before . |
| 17 | As Britain has 22 million homes with television , this means that for the foreseeable future the majority will be stuck with the terrestrial four channels . |
| 18 | The empowered organisation , emphasises Kinsley Lord , is held together by forces different from those that bind the command organisation : ‘ If the conventional metaphor for the command organisation is a dinosaur , with the brain at the top issuing instructions to the ponderous body , then that for the empowered organisation might be a shoal of fish , moving rapidly and constantly adjusting its shape through signals that are instantly understood . ’ |
| 19 | It should be noted that for the maximum production per female , pair mating is best . |
| 20 | He begins by summarising that for the obvious reasons of inaccessibility and defences , the peoples who reside among mountains are the last to be conquered : he progresses to consider similarly-caused impediments to civilisation : he deduces the part remoteness plays in the preservation of ancient languages . |
| 21 | I want that for the whole club , but firstly for the fans , who 've been superb . |
| 22 | This means that for the forseeable future , prisoners remanded in custody by magistrates , will have to be held in police cells until a jail place becomes available . |
| 23 | The guardian ad litem prepared a report in which she recommended that the children live with their father and , in the body of the report , stated that for the local authority to carry out an assessment of the father at the same time as the children were being prepared for a long-term placement did not ‘ enable an open and honest working relationship . ’ |
| 24 | Computer mode fling exercises have persuaded Raup ( 1981 ) that for the important group of trilobites it was more a matter of ‘ bad genes ’ than ‘ bad luck ’ . |
| 25 | The Fourier spectrum G ( ο); follows from replacing s by so that for the particular signal under consideration . |
| 26 | Also , bear in mind that for the single horse owner a bag of coarse mix will be used up while the feed still retains its value . |