Example sentences of "[noun] and for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted to settle , once and for all , the question of whether Riddle had made his last journey inside the Wheel and for that reason he was resolved to have it closely examined by an expert . |
| 2 | The objective would be to provide funds for startups and for small and medium-sized businesses in general . |
| 3 | The other , hand-written , was similar : ‘ Lib Dem supporter voting Labour to kick Tory out in Croydon NW and for electoral reform . ’ |
| 4 | None can work well in isolation and for that reason it is reassuring that the CBI , in pressing its case for the TECs to be the local regulators of vocational training , stresses the importance of the young person 's ( and the adult worker 's ) " personal file " , building on the existing good practice of records of achievement in schools . |
| 5 | In 1816 , the year Davy 's lamp was introduced , J. H. H. Holmes , a mining inspector , published a book containing ‘ accounts of the explosions from fire damp which have occurred for the last 20 years ; their causes and the means proposed for their remedy and for general improvements of the mining systems by new methods of ventilation . ’ |
| 6 | ( iii ) In the context of their own writing and reading pupils should be introduced to the complex regularity that underlies the spelling of words with inflectional endings , eg bead-ing , bead-ed , bed-d-ing , bed-d-ed. ( iv ) Teaching should encourage discussion of the range of vocabulary , eg from informal to formal , everyday to specialist , its use in different settings and for different purposes and the effect of particular choices of words , eg the kinds of topics slang is used for ; the situations in which slang is used ; the need for specialist terms and the effects of their use outside the specialist group . |
| 7 | I think she has a genuine feeling for the fans and for all that 's been written about her . |
| 8 | This disc is a must for all game fans and for those with adlib compatible soundcards your in for an even bigger treat . |
| 9 | The child was allowed into the bedroom and for two hours she watched her father die . |
| 10 | In fact , we would encourage their use at traffic lights to catch red light jumpers , outside schools for excessive speed and for other such criminal acts of stupidity . |
| 11 | We thank you for those who have ministered your word to the church of St Leonard 's during the weeks when we have been meeting in the School for the Deaf ; so we thank you for John , Alan and Emily , for the readers and for those chaplains and ministers who worship with us . |
| 12 | Automatic recovery is accomplished using customer-tailorable standard recovery scripts available for major databases and for major communication interfaces — TCP/IP , Open Systems Interconnection , X25 , SNA and Datakit . |
| 13 | The acquisition of a Library Macintosh specifically for the development of Hypercard databases and for other Library housekeeping software is recommended for 1993/94 , having been deferred in each of the two previous years . |
| 14 | It was developed and used primarily during the First World War as a means of preventing dogs , used in the trenches as messengers and for other activities , from betraying their positions by a casual bark . |
| 15 | It is being promoted to designers , architects and interior decorators for wall cladding , working surfaces in kitchens , hotels , shops , banks and offices and for shaped articles such as washbasins . |
| 16 | There is thus a duality between waves and particles in quantum mechanics : for some purposes it is helpful to think of particles as waves and for other purposes it is better to think of waves as particles . |
| 17 | For isotropic materials the wave velocities are given by for longitudinal waves and for transverse waves . |
| 18 | Less than a month later , at the beginning of March 1757 , Miller wrote a letter , now held by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania , reporting that promised specimens of Crataegus had not arrived and could not be included in the current edition of the Dictionary ; he repeated his request for Gale asplenii-folio and for all sorts of lilies and Andromeda . |
| 19 | A king depended on the administrative structure of the civitas for tax revenue and for some of the manpower required for his armies . |
| 20 | So far as the sub-national programme is concerned , we have already worked up provision patterns for competition sports halls and for multi-purpose , high quality pitches ; so there is no need to include these items in your returns . |
| 21 | I thank my hon. Friend for that reply and for those sensational figures . |
| 22 | My best memory when I was at Primary School was that I was a member of a Gymnastics club and for many weeks we rehearsed our routine to do in front of the school and parents . |
| 23 | Mademoiselle rose to her in her seat and for all her smallness she seemed enormous to Gwendoline just then , her beady eyes |
| 24 | It paved the way for expanded West German trade with the Eastern bloc and for greater personal links between the two . |
| 25 | The man was relaxed and rested and Holly felt the tiredness brush through his mind and for nine and a half hours he had worked in the Factory at the lathe that fashioned chairs ' legs . |
| 26 | For inexperienced drivers and for infrequent drinkers the sharp increase occurs at a much lower level . |
| 27 | ELECTRONICS group Racal has won orders worth more than £15m to supply high definition colour monitors for NATO aircraft and for Royal Navy frigates . |
| 28 | The most important buildings would have had red hand-made tiles on the roof and for this reason , the region became known as Rottwil ( red villa ) . |
| 29 | The Commission issues a written Statement of Objections to the parties , to which they can provide a written response , and holds oral hearings for the parties and for interested third parties . |
| 30 | For children who encounter educational difficulties we have the services of our Learning Support Department and for all children we have Enrichment Staff who can extend their learning . |