Example sentences of "for [art] [noun sg] is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The word ‘ only ’ is important , for the protection is thereby confined to cases in which the defendant commits no other , incidental tort to procure the breach of contract . |
| 2 | Take away this knowledge and the appeal would vanish , for the music is rarely able to stand on its own merits . |
| 3 | The researchers admit that they have not yet achieved the ‘ ideal scheme ’ , for the switching is not truly random , but is related to the ( different ) periodic frequencies of the generators driving the standing waves in each cell . |
| 4 | This seems a very fair deal , for the transformation is pretty dramatic . |
| 5 | There is no need to call up the tort where the legal wrong procured is itself a tort against the plaintiff , for the procurer is then himself liable as a joint tortfeasor ; nor , it seems , is there a tort of inducing a breach of trust , because a person who procures such an act becomes himself , by the doctrines of equity , liable as a trustee . |
| 6 | I do n't believe that any of the three could exist , or would want to exist independently , for the synthesis is absolutely perfect , the balance so delicate , that the next step up could only be Rapture and Heaven . |
| 7 | It is ignored for cast after cast , using a new crust each time of course , but I am not surprised for I am having great difficulty keeping the line from bowing , for the current is slightly faster between the crust and the bank . |
| 8 | It does n't work like that , for the past is past for most of us . |
| 9 | I am not able , as others may be , to find an aesthetic pleasure in admiring the pattern as it unfolded ; for the spectacle is not to an Englishman a reassuring one . |
| 10 | In a sense it has become a victim of its own success , for the company is still criticised for the derelict land that remains . |
| 11 | Handling the information held in the system is more important than handling the system , for the system is merely a means to an end . |
| 12 | A lay brother came over and took us into the abbey church to hear morning mass and , believe me , for the glory is now gone , the abbey church of Glastonbury was the nearest thing to heaven on earth . |
| 13 | But I discard that idea , for the water is too shallow over the sand and once a fish is hooked the fishing would be finished for a long time while the rest of the shoal got over the scare . |
| 14 | It is clearly dangerous to be too sweeping about the type of support which fascism received , for the evidence is far too diffuse and fragmentary , but it would be fair to accept Wal Hannington 's point that the allegiance to the trade unions and the Labour Party prevented the working class and the unemployed being attracted to fascism though he felt that , ‘ Every locality where the unemployed remain unorganized is a potential breeding-ground for this country , just as it was in Germany . ’ |
| 15 | Mercury in Liverpool Bay fish presents no real cause for concern to consumers , for the content is well below the limit set by the European Community [ EC ] . |
| 16 | Mission is not simply self-proliferation , for the Church is not the Kingdom . |
| 17 | The talisman will have become a docket , and a docket with a sinister purpose ; for the change is not just to conform with the requirements of the EC but signals a fundamental change of function . |
| 18 | ‘ Full many a glorious morning ’ has been ruined and disgraced by ‘ the basest clouds ’ : They ‘ may ’ stain : the ambiguity of the verb ( ‘ it can happen ’ ; ‘ it is allowed ’ ) points up the ambivalence of feeling , for the poem is clearly another example of a strategy we have already found in the Mistress poems , an apparent exculpation which is in fact an indictment . |
| 19 | Peace and quiet are easy to find even in the height of the season , for the hotel is splendidly isolated , away from traffic and the merest hint of a crowd . |
| 20 | But there is some danger where co-operatives are created out of economic adversity , for the situation is then one of commercial crisis and , important though the rescue may be on general grounds , it is far from an ideal basis on which to promote the reputation of co-operatives generally , or of Co-operation as an alternative form of organisation . |
| 21 | The net effect on costs is therefore unclear , for the picture is now becoming highly complex . |
| 22 | For the climate is here to stay . |
| 23 | Written business contracts can be searched for minute loopholes in the small print , for the Arab is most certainly a past master at the game of delay . |
| 24 | The name is called twice now , for the matter is doubly urgent . |
| 25 | Who constitutes ‘ us ’ poses less of a problem , for the definition is usually in terms of existing states . |
| 26 | The ending of the novel is too pat and contrived , but in the course of it Tabucchi has created an India which is constantly surprising and challenging to the European traveller/narrator/reader without ever allowing its mysticism or its exoticism to run away with it , for the sub-continent is also an ironically observed tourists ' India of hotels , buses , taxis , sights and restaurants . |
| 27 | For the nation is only manifested in the national character , in the nationality of the individual ; and the nationality of the individual is only one aspect of his determination by the history of society , by the development of the conditions and techniques of labour . |
| 28 | The words ‘ reasonably satisfied ’ and ‘ substantially fewer ’ are selected deliberately ; for the alternative is so grave that the choice ought not to be made on only a narrow margin of evidence or probability . |
| 29 | Logically Mira 's version precedes the ‘ events ’ it details , for a narrative is always implied in a list of facts . |
| 30 | The rhetorical perspective proposed does not view attitudes as being static , for an attitude is not seen as a fixed response pattern located within an individual . |