Example sentences of "[pn reflx] and for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our limited ambition can , therefore , only be to sustain a reasonable quality of life for ourselves and for those animals that serve us . |
| 2 | We tend to take plants for granted , seeing them as just another aspect of the environment and failing to appreciate the vital service which they perform both for ourselves and for all other living creatures on this planet . |
| 3 | That since we have realised the position of women in the printing trade is seriously threatened , we women have been trying to organise ourselves with a view to securing justice for ourselves and for the women who may in future desire to practise the business of compositors or monotypists . |
| 4 | If this is an alternative , let it be aired before it is too late to act , for the quality for life of ourselves and for our children rests upon our careful deliberation and action now : We can no longer afford the luxury of complacency and continuous contingency reactions |
| 5 | We , we do find it as a , as a group very difficult to organise ourselves and for us to have some time to sit down together and feed off one another and talk about it so this is quite , that 's quite hopeful , and I think that does show erm , something the same as er , I 'm sure Jack would say the same thing , like here we are , you know , we 've got all the incoming calls , we 've got all the other stuff to do , and what we 're actually doing when we 're trying to make appointments and so on is we , we fit it in , because we 're half way through |
| 6 | Indeed with involuntary memory as the creative principle , one might almost dare to say that the opposition between poetry and the analytical is removed , because perhaps one of Proust 's greatest achievements as a novelist is the way in which he reveals poetry and imaginative perception as the most appropriate and authentic means by which our human experience can be both understood and recreated for ourselves and for others . |
| 7 | Matisse and all the others saw the twentieth century with their eyes but they saw the reality of the nineteenth century , Picasso was the only one in painting who saw the twentieth century with his eyes and saw its reality and consequently his struggle was terrifying , terrifying for himself and for the others , because he had nothing to help him , the past did not help him , nor the present , he had to do it all alone and , in spite of much strength he is often very weak , he consoled himself and allowed himself to be seduced by other things which led him more or less astray . |
| 8 | But Rodrigo ordered a bed to be made ready for himself and for the leper , and they twain slept together . |
| 9 | The book registers a new-found fascination with Ezra Pound , too , on whom Davie was soon to write two books , as opposed to T. S. Eliot — espousing a failed Modernist against the acknowledged leader of London literary opinion — and its tactic of saying-the-other-thing was soon to become the mark of a critic eager to clear a space for himself and for others of like mind . |
| 10 | Sir Robert Knolles , likewise , fought both for himself and for his king . |
| 11 | He had not avoided a strike , which was half his inclination , but he had preserved a reasonably favourable position , both for himself and for resistance . |
| 12 | Though the Swan was more sophisticated than the Queen 's Head , it was only a matter of minutes before servants , ostlers and maids were scampering all over the large and comfortable hotel to see to the minutest needs of the ‘ Honourable Member of Parliament ’ , ‘ brother to an Earl ’ , who had landed on them at an unexpectedly late hour and naturally — ‘ a Colonel as well ’ — demanded the best of everything both for himself and for his ( temporary — ‘ from Keswick ’ ) servant and his ( ‘ pale-looking ’ ) daughter . |
| 13 | He laid the pistol down and crossed to the drinks cabinet , pouring glasses of whisky for himself and for Carol . |
| 14 | He had been lost to all sense of preservation , both for himself and for Grainne . |
| 15 | Equally important , if not equally quantifiable , were the psychological and political effects of the accident , which finally destroyed — both in the Soviet Union itself and for outsiders — the myth of Soviet technological infallibility , and any remaining belief in the honesty of Soviet officialdom . |
| 16 | In the second place , possession is not merely evidence of ownership , but ( subject to the rights of the owner ) is itself and for its own sake entitled to legal protection . |
| 17 | But enthusiasm for war itself and for an apocalyptic struggle for ‘ living space ’ was difficult to raise outside circles of nazified youth , the SS , and Party fanatics . |
| 18 | It is only responsible for the reservoir itself and for the sluice gates , says Maxwell . |
| 19 | We know then that the legend is false and that it became attached to a much older custom , but what was the Horngarth itself and for what purpose was it erected ? |
| 20 | The proposals involved a major change to the presentation of financial performance both in the p&l account itself and for items passing through reserves . |
| 21 | The more energetic visitors , may be inclined to take a dip in the cooling waters of the lake itself and for this , or for leisurely days in the sun , the hotel provides a private lakeside sun terrace with sun-loungers . |
| 22 | The present American tendency is to ask what a country can now do for itself and for the United States , not what it might do in other circumstances , nor yet what it deserves . |
| 23 | The church is lovely , both in itself and for its bucolic setting . |
| 24 | Charles 's reign therefore is interesting both in itself and for what came after . |
| 25 | But when she spoke she was careful to keep her voice flat and monotonous to disguise the exhilaration she felt in taking revenge , for herself and for Bella . |
| 26 | Or did he ring to cancel ? she asked herself and for some reason , felt uneasy . |
| 27 | P.P.S. I would like to thank Steffi for being herself and for being a great supporter of Tour Events from what I can see . |
| 28 | It would be cruel if the daughter could be evicted and left to find another home for herself and for her belongings simply because of the accident of the untimely death of the parent within one year . |
| 29 | ‘ You brute ! ’ she said to Lucenzo , hurting for herself and for Katarina . |
| 30 | She saw by his face that he had not , and grimaced as she thought of the gruesome tasks she was obliged to perform , degrading both for herself and for her far from easy patient . |