Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] for an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But as Ted Sandy-man ought to have realised , ‘ you 've got to have grist before you can grind ’ ; machine-masters end up machine-minders , and all for nothing , or rather for an insidious logic of expansion .
2 There was an unresolved discussion in the case as to whether the lessee continued liable for the entire rent or merely for an apportioned part of it , which is all that the plaintiff claimed .
3 Though he did n't say so , he was looking for something more satisfactory for himself and Sien , and perhaps for an extended family if her mother and brother joined them later .
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5 FitzAlan could not have made his opinion of her clearer , and yet for an insane moment there , shaken by his reasoned judgements of Stephen and Matilda , she had been tempted to confess the truth and beg for his help .
6 In 1839 he succeeded Stephen Rigaud [ q.v. ] as reader in experimental philosophy ( physics ) at Oxford , becoming responsible not only for a well-established course but also for an extensive collection of apparatus with an endowment for its development .
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