Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [pron] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 By their very quality and integrity they continued for several years after I had been graduated from the post of Talks Producer to higher echelons of musical and dramatic productions .
2 Theories which aim to explain social phenomena do so through methods of investigation and interpretation which strive for internal consistency , comprehensiveness , and conceptual clarity .
3 As an adult she was able to see how wrong it was and she knew that they were indulging in something they should not have been doing — although in her childish innocence she had not been aware that it was anything more than an extension of the love and affection she felt for other members of her family .
4 He enjoys it all with equal enthusiasm , and when I visited him in a small hut on Denham airfield where he was instructing ab initio pilots in Cessna 172s I detected the same dedication , pride and affection he has for all his aviation exploits .
5 Although evolution decrees that species of plant and animal which survive for long periods are shaped to the advantages determined by natural selection , progress over time to larger size might be a law of nature independent of environmental factors .
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