Example sentences of "[noun sg] and for a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wore an expression of abject defeat and for a short moment my attention moved away from my own troubles and I felt sorry for him . |
| 2 | Luce buried her face against Michele 's neck and for a long time they sat without moving or speaking . |
| 3 | For an application to be an application for the renewal of a licence , it must be in respect of premises where there is a licence already in force and for a further grant in the form of that licence . |
| 4 | That is the best thing for industry and for a strong recovery from the recession . |
| 5 | He lay at her side and for a long while he did n't speak . |
| 6 | He paid for water to be piped from the valley 1,500ft below the village and for a proper tarmacadam road to be constructed , linking it to the twin towns of Couiza and Montazels in the valley below . |
| 7 | Evidence resolving the trichotomy at node 3 is provided for a human-chimpanzee grouping and for a chimpanzee-gorilla grouping . |
| 8 | This will influence the teacher 's or therapist 's decision regarding whether or not the test is likely to be useful for a particular child and for a particular purpose . |
| 9 | A strong hand stayed her fall and for a brief instant she was flung against Fen 's chest , his heartbeat quite audible as her breathing seemed suspended . |
| 10 | However , we recognise that the countryside is also a place for conservation , for bird lovers , for agriculture and for a whole range of people . |
| 11 | Later in the season , plants offer animals food of a different kind and for a different reason . |
| 12 | There is of course no need to be unduly alarmed at these discrepancies ; we should reflect that any normal language presents numerous instances where certain recalcitrant items refuse to fit into a generally acceptable pattern ( e.g. for no very obvious reason the " expected " adverbs difficultly and longly are not accepted in English and have to be replaced by the phrases with difficulty and for a long time . ) |
| 13 | CIWF is a public Trust which campaigns against factory farming and for a fair deal to farm animals during rearing , transport and slaughter . |
| 14 | In April , a month after the ‘ moderate ’ right had come together in the ominously powerful and well-financed form of the CEDA , local elections provided encouragement both for the right and for a Radical Party now hungry for power . |
| 15 | Moneylender Cash loan usually between £30 and £1,000 from a local firm ( or broker who fixes it with a finance company ) , usually without security and for a fixed period ( anything from days to years ) ; may be paid in fixed instalments or lump sum ; interest rate fixed at start . |
| 16 | Demonstrations of up to 100,000 people before the elections were accompanied by calls from the Azerbaijani People 's Front for their boycott and for a general strike . |
| 17 | At the secondary level , the report continued , pupils should study in addition a modern language and the curriculum of all pupils should include what is called ‘ preparation for adult and working life ’ , a varied programme of activities incorporating craft , design and technology , history and geography , moral education , health education , and ‘ preparation for parenthood and for a participatory role in adult society ’ . |
| 18 | For a circular rod of radius a the form factor F is the same as the moment of area and so for a free-free torsional resonant vibration and for a clamped-free resonance . |
| 19 | I attended the funeral and for a long time afterwards we , as a family , used to take flowers to the grave . |
| 20 | There is also a tendency to pause in a pose at the end of a phrase and for a deliberate change to be made before further dance . |
| 21 | But Joseph had always been very devoted to any local news and for a long time the talk of the town had been the Cockermouth man — Fletcher Christian 's — Mutiny . |
| 22 | Therefore , the plaintiffs , a partnership in general medical practice , were seeking to prevent an employee once he had left , from , inter alia , practising as a consultant within a certain area and for a certain time . |
| 23 | This group also argued for measures of economic liberalization and for a clearer separation of the Labour Party from the Histadrut trade union organization . |
| 24 | A newly retired further education teacher who had worked for both the Home Office as a prison instructor and for a local authority as a teacher of technical subjects , applied for two part-time jobs . |
| 25 | This acknowledged the need for a better trained workforce and for a previous lack of expenditure in the welfare sphere . |
| 26 | Thirdly , the Labour party 's support for the social action programme of the social charter and for a minimum wage represents a political double-barrelled shotgun aimed at the working population , particularly those in lower-paid jobs . |
| 27 | There is no legal right to protect or demonstrate — merely a right for the present to say what one likes provided that it is lawful whether by way of ‘ protest ’ or otherwise ; or a right to pass to and fro along the highway in a reasonable manner and for a proper purpose , whether carrying a banner or not . |
| 28 | There was a need for a Bible in the English tongue and for a new liturgy in English which would clearly indicate the Church 's disbelief in Purgatory , pilgrimages , and in transubstantiation . |
| 29 | The AT&T programme , called ‘ New Art : New Visions ’ , describes itself as the first corporate effort in the U.S. to help promote recently created work by living artists , especially the work of women and ‘ artists of colour ’ , the term now used to refer to artists of the many racial minority groups vying for exhibition space and for a dwindling pool of public and corporate funds . |
| 30 | The section provides for the newspaper advertisement of applications for a grant ( including a provisional grant ) of a new licence and for a regular extension of the permitted hours by the clerk of the board to whom application is made ( subs . |