Example sentences of "the [noun sg] and for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I attended the funeral and for a long time afterwards we , as a family , used to take flowers to the grave . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Once it had dispersed , Bunting was allowed to hold a meeting in the Diamond and for a short time afterwards there was tension as rival groups of teenagers faced each other , but police and DCAC stewards persuaded them to disperse before any trouble broke out . |
| 5 | Before 18 months , a child wo n't recognise herself in the mirror and for a long time will describe herself in terms of attributes ( like smallness ) and her possessions . |
| 6 | He has built up a reputation for naïvely self-important pronouncements on the state of the world and for a determined shunning of personal publicity , but circumstances force him to stand by his words when the Evallonian Royalists seek his support . |