Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The power of traditional chiefs was curbed and for the first time women and young people were drawn into the political process . |
| 2 | A successor ( all Heads of Department were eligible for election ) had proved hard to find and for a brief period the chairmanship of the Course had been taken over by the Deputy Director , Brian Tonge . |
| 3 | There has to be a time , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , laying down the pen , began to type again , there has to be a time when excuses are no longer necessary , will never again be necessary , there has to be such a time in everybody 's life , when too soon and too late no longer mean anything , a time , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , when one starts because one starts and for no other reason . |
| 4 | I read more widely and , as news of my expertise spread , people began to seek me out for a ruling on a specific industrial relations issue or for an historical precedent . |
| 5 | I delivered it to my agent to be framed and for the final hanging in the boardroom . |
| 6 | Samantha woke and for a split second imagined she was still at home , still free to stretch and rise and walk and wash , still at liberty to heed her instincts and indulge her whims . |
| 7 | Thanks to , among others , John Robinson and the radical theologians , however , the way has been paved for humanist concerns to become more widely accepted and for the established Church to lose its importance in the areas of both public and private morality . |
| 8 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 9 | Someone who , through years of toil among parish registers , discerns and for the first time explains the minutiae of demographic change in a northern mill town , is clearly doing that sort of thing . |
| 10 | But one winter she got flu , her work was sapped and for the first time the critics were unkind . |
| 11 | The purpose of this was to allow the stone to disimpact or for the acute complication to resolve . |
| 12 | Given the size of the European constituencies , it will be difficult , if not impossible , for some candidates to become widely known and for an informed choice to be made . |
| 13 | Arnulf began his formal education at the cathedral school of Seés and for a short time held the position of treasurer of Bayeux . |
| 14 | The marquis 's voice had softened and for the first time Topaz gave him a wide smile . |
| 15 | P'raps they 've gone blackberryin' , he thought and for a fleeting moment he wished that he was with them . |
| 16 | Now the situation is changing and for the first time two excellent books have appeared on pain in children . |
| 17 | So Lauda won and for the first time he led the championship : 48 to 45.5 for Prost . |
| 18 | It is easy to realise that in gusty conditions , if the glider is being flown slowly , the stall may occur high enough for a wing to drop and for an incipient spin to develop with even more serious results . |
| 19 | Their talk and behaviour took a slightly different form from ours just as their uniforms did and for the same reason but their major premises seemed to be the same . |
| 20 | Though there is no appeal procedure laid down if the chairman of the meeting rejects a proxy duly lodged and therefore does not allow that creditor 's vote , it is open to the creditor affected to apply to the court for the chairman 's decision to be reversed and for a new meeting to be held . |
| 21 | A low Mughal gateway led on into a wet and glistening flagstone courtyard ; it was deserted but for a solitary pupil running late towards his class . |
| 22 | The work was not taxing and for the first time in his life he had flexible free hours . |
| 23 | For the second time since the 19th century the value of the try has been changed and for the second time this century the drop goal value has been altered . |
| 24 | Dunlop refused and for the first time revealed that he considered himself to be the sole owner of the horse . |