Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] for [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tears stung her eyes a moment at the thought of her sister losing her identity ; Jezrael asked herself if the grief was for Ches or selfishly for her own loss . |
| 2 | this season we 'll be cheering louder than ever for our three teams … in the new first division we 've got Oxford United … they 've new owners and new heart after escaping relegation … we 've first division football at the County ground as well … where style and skill have always been swindon town 's hallmarks … this time around they 're hoping for strength too … in division three Hereford United have been rebuilding … they 're going continental with a player-coach instead of a manager … so for the best season ticket sit down for Central South … . |
| 3 | The Act also provides the setting up of duty-free zones and perhaps for our present purpose it is sufficient to say that companies established in a duty-free zone are treated in every way as if they were established outside of the borders of the Hungarian Republic . |
| 4 | Miranda even managed a smile , revelling in the fact that someone apart from herself appreciated Doogie , if only for his street-fighting qualities . |
| 5 | ‘ As a family we would like to express our most sincere thanks to Detective Chief Superintendent Cooper and all his staff for their diligence in their inquiries and especially for their sympathetic support and concern throughout this extremely difficult time . |
| 6 | As Paul states in 1 Timothy 5:8 , ‘ If anyone does not provide for his relatives , and especially for his immediate family , he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever . ’ |
| 7 | All households in the Row were inter-married , but whereas the nuclear family prevailed amongst the fishermen , the extended family was the norm for the bargemen and also for their nineteenth-century successors , the canal boatmen . |
| 8 | One of these writers , the poet Hölderlin , claims our particular attention here for the new attitude towards Germany that his commitment to the Greek ideal entails — and also for his intuitive awareness of a greater complexity underlying " the spirit of Greece " than Winckelmann or his immediate successors had been able to recognize . |
| 9 | In an ideal situation , surgery is planned and patients are admitted to the ward prior to the operation so that they may be prepared physically and psychologically for their forthcoming operation . |
| 10 | Murder was committed in order to silence people , and out of jealousy and revenge and anger , and simply for its own sake . |
| 11 | The Jermyn Street shop was known in London and abroad for its flamboyant stock . |
| 12 | The way was far from smooth , and some colleges were to find the path of validation for their BEd proposals — and then for their diversified courses — through the universities . |
| 13 | Not surprisingly , as with her tennis , she relied more on accuracy , control and skill than power , as she reached a handicap of +2 and won honours first for Surrey and then for her beloved Scotland . |
| 14 | And then for my main course I tend to choose |
| 15 | She 'd paid bitterly and dearly for her unshakeable loyalty . |
| 16 | For most of its life , and certainly for its early years , it was either too outspoken to be a children 's show , but not high-brow enough to be considered as adult entertainment . |
| 17 | Partly for Clare 's sake , but mostly for my own satisfaction , I decided to do my level best to break that man . |
| 18 | But hardly for his present namesake . |
| 19 | All the gentlemen admired her , not only for her beauty but also for her musical skills . |
| 20 | As she was seven months pregnant at the time , Geraldine feared not only for herself but also for her unborn child . |
| 21 | He would pay particular tribute to Ernest Green , the General Secretary of the WEA , for his guidance and tenacity on behalf of the District , to Lionel Elvin and David Thomson not only for their unremitting service as District Treasurers but also for their personal support and wise counselling . |
| 22 | It is what John Triseliotis has referred to as ‘ a family for life , with its network of support systems not only for them but also for their future children ’ . |
| 23 | • Our team of instructors have been chosen not only for their teaching skills , but also for their sympathetic understanding of the needs of our students . |
| 24 | The National Curriculum proposal has been subjected to extensive criticism not only for the vagueness of the curriculum theory it espouses but also for its inadequate consideration of the value of the arts to the development of all pupils . |
| 25 | Tenerife , the largest of the exotic , duty-free Canary Islands , is renowned not only for its excellent climate but also for its amazing variation of scenery . |
| 26 | It is probably not accidental that the most famous and widely discussed paranoiac of modern psychiatric literature , Schreber , had a father who seems to have approximated rather closely to the divine monarchs of earlier times and certainly practised a regime of child-rearing which was notable not only for its authoritarianism but also for its central concern for the welfare of the child , who was to be protected from harmful influences , bad habits and incorrect posture by rigidly enforced and total parental control , which even included applying iron and leather braces and restraints to the child 's body . |
| 27 | The blast that struck St Pierre was remarkable not only for its searing heat but also for its sheer force — masonry walls one metre thick were blown down , heavy cannon torn from their mounts , and a three-ton statue carried sixteen metres . |
| 28 | It was chosen for the Earth Summit because of its good looks and protective properties but also for its environmental associations . |
| 29 | KINSEY was one of the successes of the year , not least for its semi-criminal claim-game milieu but also for its imaginative shooting of day and night time in the city . |
| 30 | The article convincingly argues for the adoption of Relevance Theory not only for its explanatory but also for its evaluative applications . |