Example sentences of "that [vb past] for [art] " 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 | On the negative side , funerals were becoming so much more secular in outlook , appearance and context that the surviving guilds and fraternities found themselves hard-pressed to provide all that made for an average funeral of the new type ; the rules were being rewritten by a public which no longer wished to perpetuate the simple ritual hitherto provided and which were looking for a pageantry close to that of the great baronial funerals as performed by the College of Arms , a corporation of heralds and part of the Royal Household . |
| 3 | For the client , the advantage was that he could go direct to those various tradesmen who , collectively , could provide all that made for an average funeral . |
| 4 | The model being erected was that made for the Olympia Aero Show in 1929 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She needed some more wood for her carving if she was to complete all the ‘ little comforters ’ , as she called them , during her three-week holiday away from the travel agents where she worked , small , smooth-shaped pieces of wood , lovingly carved and polished by herself to fit easily into the palm and which , much to her surprise and delight , were eagerly accepted by the large rehabilitation hospital in the next town that cared for the blind and mentally sick . |
| 8 | Duncan asked , now sprawled on the bed , his legs crossed and his head resting against a thin cushion that passed for a pillow . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She strode out of the cupboard that passed for the shuttle 's sick bay and into the cabin . |
| 11 | So the choreographer can not make strong contrasts between the style usually used for the other-worldly spirits and that used for the characters living in the particular setting . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A movement was born that provided for the next four years the reference point for the left , and for artists and what passed for Britain 's Beats . |
| 14 | From here , a futher interpretation of the Miller 's Tale may be proposed which is similar in form to that of Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin recalled just above , although far less severe , morally , than either that proposed for the French fabliau or that of the allegorizers . |
| 15 | With better information , the chemical worker would ask for a wage that compensated for the danger of illness but would still neglect the marginal cost that illness would impose on society through expensive health care , which uses society 's resources but may be free to the individual . |
| 16 | Before the building of roads , it was peripheral and resembled that practised for the previous 350 years . |
| 17 | A year later a second note was among another smuggled group of notes that arrived for the relatives . |
| 18 | ‘ D' you think I might have a cup of coffee or is that reserved for the police force ? ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | When one boy attempted to impart some sense of movement to the still life by pouring himself an imaginary cup of tea the teacher lightly but firmly kicked him back to his seat , smiling and talking in a manner that confirmed for the pupil the ‘ naturalness ’ of this action . |
| 22 | This is the house market flat on its back because of the boom that caused the bust that lost the jobs that paid for the loans that bought the house that Jack bought . |
| 23 | We could be back to the boom that led to the crash that lost the job that paid for the house that Jack bought . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | There has been a lot of debate about the reasons for producing complicated patterns on the suture line ; what advantage would this have given the ammonoids over their nautiloid ancestors , that allowed for the explosive bursts of ammonoid evolution ? |
| 26 | We used a logistic regression method for analysing our two stage study that allowed for the control sample being stratified and corrected the estimates for differing sampling rates in different strata ( the different hospitals ) . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In London she settled in Highgate and ventured out from there on the variation of the Grand Tour that beckoned for the young in Europe in the mid 1960s : Paris , Rome , Turkey , Lebanon , Jordan , Tunisia , and across north Africa . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |