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

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1 If there is only one adult resident , a discount of 25 per cent can be claimed ( s79 ) ; it is important therefore that if husband and wife cease to live together each of them should notify the local authority that separation has taken place so as to end joint liability and for the remaining resident spouse to claim the discount ( if applicable ) .
2 Muslims and Jews want to get rid of it for religious reasons ; Americans want ( wanted ? ) to get rid of it for hygienic reasons and for the hypothetical reduced risk of penile cancer in the circumcised population ; Latins love to play with it , like to keep it , and are taught to mobilise it often ; the British would like to ignore it , not to touch it , and eventually get rid of it when it causes too much trouble .
3 Models have been produced for the world magnetic charts , the navigational charts published by the British and American naval authorities , and for the International Geomagnetic Reference Field ( IGRF ) , widely used in science and commerce .
4 This , and the alliance with Italy and the countries of Eastern Europe ( Romania , Hungary ) enabled them to present themselves as pan-European , fighting the war for the sake of Europe and for the new European order against the peripheral or non-European powers .
5 The main gap was in provision for elderly people with senile dementia and for the new long-stay population .
6 The council bill must clearly show not only the precept for each level of local government but itemise what they are paying for street cleaning , for dustbin collection , for the police and for the various local government services .
7 The Democratic Convention of Romania ( DCR ) , a centre-right 18-party coalition , performed well in urban areas , while in rural areas there was strong support for the incumbent President , ex-communist Ion Iliescu , and for the Democratic National Salvation Front ( DNSF ) which nominated him .
8 Where badgers have shouldered their way under sheep-fencing , look for dried earth or polishing on the wire , and for the odd loose guard hair .
9 profit or loss of the undertaking acquired for the period from the beginning of the financial year up to the date of the acquisition and for the previous financial year .
10 He began in the central Lowlands by surveying the lines for a railway from Edinburgh to Glasgow ( 1837 ) , and for the Scottish Central Railway ( 1844 ) .
11 The main development here was the spectacular rise in electoral support for the Liberals , and for the Scottish National Party .
12 And if that happened , whether it became a matter for him personally and for the proposed new squad would depend on how great the scandal , how real the suspicion and of what precisely .
13 For this offence and for the proposed suicide-pact offence , the Criminal Law Revision Committee ( CLRC ) recommended a maximum of seven years ' imprisonment .
14 I watched the crew of a grubby Polish reefer vessel : they were taking pictures of each other against the background of the Gatun Locks ; three hours later , they were gazing with rapt attention at the passing majesty of Culebra ; their cameras were out again for the Pedro Miguel , for the distant flags of the American bases , for the Miraflores Locks , and for the immense red-white-and-blue bandera of the Panama Republic that waved lazily from the summit of Mount Ancon , over the old wooden houses of Panama City .
15 For the background of the landscape and for the plain knitted part of the garment , I like light sand or straw colour .
16 Even for many artisans mensuration was probably a more necessary skill than writing , and for the unskilled working class the low occupational functional value of literacy is the most feasible explanation of the stagnation in levels after the seventeenth-century surge .
17 There were 186 non-responders , giving a response rate for ACFA members of 82% , and for the whole British population with cystic fibrosis of 56% ( table I ) .
18 And for the self-styled Vietnamese patriot , reading these theses in Paris in the French Communist paper l'Humanité , it amounted , in his own account , to a religious conversion .
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