Example sentences of "is [conj] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , and the reason we 've got no morals is that for a long time ( 150 years ) we 've been at a loose end . ' |
| 2 | The characteristic of all those areas is that for a long time they have been Labour controlled , although Conservatives have been in control in Brent for the past year and the Liberal Democrats have recently been in control in Tower Hamlets . |
| 3 | What is increasingly clear is that for a large number of headhunters in the major eight firms — and many of the more profitable smaller ones — this functional or industry specialisation is a key to success . |
| 4 | Our usual joke is that for a Hungarian novelist to get published and widely read , he has first to be sent to prison . |
| 5 | Now interest rates have come down , the latest situation is that for a high rate tax payer an instant access bank account pays less than the rate of inflation . |
| 6 | The truth is that for a weekly paper in something as effervescent and ethereal as pop , all that we 've done over the last 40 years is not as important as what we do next week . |
| 7 | The thing about sex , thought Jay , apart from everything else , is that for a few , for many , for countless seconds and sometimes glorious minutes , you stop thinking . |
| 8 | What is interesting is that for the first time individual patrols would have radio communication via jeep-mounted No. 11 radio sets , but in the event of breakdowns they would also each take two pigeons . |
| 9 | The truth is that for the first month of the NME s TDFC offensive he was totally paranoid . |
| 10 | The new fact in the world 's history is that for the first time a great power with a formidable Navy , a population from which vast armies might be raised , and an economic and financial strength which might alone be decisive in any future conflict , is prepared to stake its own peace , not merely to guarantee its own interests , nor to further the partisan aims of its allies , but to make an end in the world of the possibility of prosperous aggression … . beyond the American continent her only interests are the open door to trade , freedom of the seas , and the maintenance of peace . |
| 11 | The result is that for the first time this season those of us whose attachment to the Welsh All Blacks can not be broken can start to look ahead with optimism . |
| 12 | One symptom of the pope 's embarrassment is that for the first and last time he made a concession to Anselm on the subject of the primacy of Canterbury , which we must deal with later . |
| 13 | But the real significance of the demonstration is that for the first time high-powered personal computers are capable of keeping up with normal speech without … the … speaker … doing … this . |
| 14 | An important aspect of the new Somali operation is that for the first time American soldiers have been prepared to serve under a non-American chief . |
| 15 | But the real significance of the demonstration is that for the first time high-powered personal computers are capable of keeping up with normal speech without … the … speaker … doing … this . |
| 16 | " My only consolation is that for the first time in her life Horatia is in pain . |
| 17 | Applying sections 1 and 2 to the facts of this appeal , the position is that for the first six months ( the period of the original letting ) the tenant was a protected tenant . |
| 18 | What we can now see is that for the first timefor a very long epriod we have inflation at a ver low level and the clear prospect of growth without inflationary difficulties . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | The main difference between the utilitarianism of Hutcheson and Hume , and that of Bentham , is that for the former it figured mainly as an account of our actual moral feelings , whereas for the latter it was not only this but even more the basis of a critique of current morality . |
| 21 | ‘ The reason I do n't have a band is that for the longest time I 've been disgusted with the mode that the American independent scene operates in and I do n't want to be associated with that . |
| 22 | All that is except for the vast Hotel Continental and the grid lines of an abortive speculative development high on the cliff top overlooking the old railway cutting . |
| 23 | The prisoners are allowed out of their cells from around 5.30 in the morning until 6.30 in the evening , during which time a majority of them would be involved in some type of work ; this is because for every two days they work they can earn one day 's remission of sentence . |
| 24 | I think this is because for the last five months I was pregnant I was so withdrawn and would n't talk to anybody — would n't go out of the house , I used to sit upstairs or here hoping she would n't kick too hard and my dad would n't see anything . |
| 25 | As Fig. 2 b shows , the asymptotic fraction of C is as for the chaotic pattern typified by Figs 1 b and 2 a . |