Example sentences of "that [vb past] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that often it was jealousy — mixed with booze — that made for a lethal cocktail , with Bogie as the stirrer . |
| 2 | It was invented by the Joseph-Robinson corporation , a particularly unscrupulous food company that operated for a time amongst the outer colonies of the planet Earth . ’ |
| 3 | In one recent enquiry into the electricity supply industry , Lord Wilberforce asked the Treasury to submit a memorandum on the significance of the dispute to the interests of the national economy and the Treasury responded with a document that argued for a progressive and substantial reduction in the levels of settlements . |
| 4 | Duncan asked , now sprawled on the bed , his legs crossed and his head resting against a thin cushion that passed for a pillow . |
| 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 | He would recognise the need for utility , the same need that provided for a discreetly-concealed compost and refuse heap in the ancient gardens of his homeland . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , this peculiar combination had a long life and was destined to reappear in the Middle Ages as the Albigensian heresy that flourished for a while in southern France but was eventually crushed in the first quarter of the thirteenth century by the northern French at the command of the most powerful of the medieval Popes , Innocent III . |
| 8 | The events associated with the prisoners ' rights movement that flourished for a time in the late 1960s and early 1970s in parts of the United States , Scandinavia and Britain had by the early 1980s largely disappeared without trace . |
| 9 | The freehold was purchased at a reasonable price in a complicated deal that allowed for a sensitive refurbishment of the grade 1-listed building and a limit of 30 hotel bedrooms . |
| 10 | Well can I say that er if I might say so first of all , I think that the , the antipathy that existed for a period actually came more from the workshop , rather than the management . |
| 11 | Several years ago , when General Motors reached agreement on a contract with the United Auto Workers that called for a new relationship based on cooperation and shared sacrifice , and then , on the same day , announced a new formula for generous executive bonuses , long-time union members simply nodded to themselves . |
| 12 | is Above all , he was seen by the young Nietzsche as the proponent of a total philosophy , a vision of life that called for a personal , not merely an intellectual , commitment — a vision that stimulated , and even promised to satisfy , the yearning to be a personal whole attuned to the ultimate values , or non-values , of life . |
| 13 | He thought that called for a reaction . |
| 14 | They also adopted a political declaration that called for a socialist and ‘ planned-market ’ economy instead of President Boris Yeltsin 's free-market reforms . |
| 15 | It also appeared that this current and the dimensions of the machines would give a thermal insulation approaching that needed for a self-sustained thermonuclear reactor — the bottom line of the Table . |
| 16 | Indeed , food requirements can rise anywhere from five to ten times that needed for a similar ectotherm . |
| 17 | It was Desmond who put me on the game — that lasted for a few months , then I got fed up with it . |
| 18 | They crossed the outer ward , followed by covert glances and whispered wonderings that halted for a moment the bustle and business of the day . |
| 19 | Something twisted inside her at the naked emotion that flashed for a moment across his face . |