Example sentences of "for [det] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were grateful not to have been born a boy , for that meant the probability of dying in war . |
| 2 | Hopes were high when it was found that even if the organizer tissue were killed it could still induce , for this offered the possibility of extracting the responsible chemical signal . |
| 3 | Yet the exchange had been all gain , for this became the happiest , the most rewarding period of his life , when to lose himself utterly in God and His Work was truly to find himself . |
| 4 | The Colonel checked with Bill Copland whether they should call it a day : ‘ Certainly not ’ was-the Major 's assured reply , for all felt the confidence of success . |
| 5 | Justice for All analysed the unmet need for professional legal services and proposed the establishment of local legal centres in places of deprivation , to be staffed by salaried lawyers and to exist with and be supplemental to the private profession . |
| 6 | It was not , at that time at least , a consequence of any particular social or economic change between the late 1940s and the early 1960s , except inasmuch as increased affluence for many heightened the ‘ relative poverty ’ of those left behind . |