Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] and for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former met rarely and for purely formal purposes . |
| 2 | The ‘ genderless norm ’ — purporting to speak for the whole of humanity — has once and for all been revealed as eminently qualifiable , if not downright specious . |
| 3 | In single-step selection the entities selected or sorted , pebbles or whatever they are , are sorted once and for all . |
| 4 | The figures for black youngsters excluded indefinitely and for a fixed period were also above average . |
| 5 | ‘ It will never be healed until the day the mystery is finally solved once and for all . ’ |
| 6 | On the assumption that people are motivated by monetary reward , it was argued that this would provide incentives for them to work harder and for entrepreneurs to create wealth and jobs . |
| 7 | Fear of death had vanished once and for all . |
| 8 | CPRW hopes that the Secretary of State will grasp the opportunity now before him to alter the pattern of development which has characterised this site for several decades , by challenging once and for all the aspiration of the current and any future owner , to establish a large and permanent residence for their tourist operations on the cliffs above Amroth . |
| 9 | Austin Currie condemned the police action in blocking their route , and said that NICRA would be organising more parades , which would not stop at Thomas Street : ‘ O'Neill and those Orange bigots behind him [ will ] realise once and for all that we are on our way forward . |
| 10 | What she would give to punch him on the nose , and flatten once and for all his insulting , devilish assumptions . |
| 11 | His eyes narrowed dangerously and for a split-second Polly held her breath . |
| 12 | Above all the aeroplane — in its infancy in 1914-18- threatened to transform the nature of warfare , eliminating once and for all the distinction between soldiers and civilians . |
| 13 | Because she had to know once and for all what was going on , that was why . |
| 14 | Charlton Curry , the second placed Liberal , said that Conservatism had ‘ departed once and for all ’ from Co Durham and ( with a nod to Mr Fallon and one or two of his predecessors ) was just about right . |
| 15 | And I was walking past and for some silly reason I felt like putting my fist through a couple of windows . |
| 16 | Francis Bacon who put money into an unsuccessful company to colonize Newfoundland wrote in his essay On Plantations ( the word used then and for most of the seventeenth century for what would later be called colonies ) ‘ You must make account to lose almost twenty years profit , and expect your recompense in the end . ’ |
| 17 | If I do n't come up when he goes away and for the while he 's on just say he 's |
| 18 | The figures for test occasion one is presented vertically and for test occasion two horizontally in the tables . |
| 19 | Marxism attempts to replace that code without providing any serious motive to induce people to behave decently and for the common good . |
| 20 | And what more radical initiative in education could be mounted than one which decisively disturbed the traditional partnership between central and local government in the management of education and which exploded once and for all the myth of ‘ the secret garden of the curriculum ’ ? |
| 21 | As you would expect , the change in pronunciation was made once and for all , but either the brothers or the editors of the Register seem to have had difficulty making up their minds how to spell it . |
| 22 | Abreu 's strategies appear to rule out such renegotiation possibilities — an agreement is made once and for all and can never be reopened . |
| 23 | From a functionalist perspective the Committee 's value was , first , as a pressure-release valve and , secondly , that it ‘ disposed once and for all of this conspiratorial theory of executive power ’ . |
| 24 | But the small screen , he insists , has not compromised his intention — to ‘ show once and for all that Shakespeare wrote a domestic tragedy as coherent and layered as anything Chekhov wrote under the same banner ’ . |
| 25 | I do not have the slightest doubt that in Nottingham the money is available to do whatever is necessary to keep open those old people 's homes , and so remove once and for all the worry of hundreds of residents in those homes . |
| 26 | Second , within the Consumer Movement , the long-standing question whether its producer capacity should be developed as independent industrial co-operatives and hence under the control of the people working in them , or whether it should be treated as incidental to the consumer co-operatives and accountable to them , had , as we have seen , been decided once and for all in favour of the latter alternative . |
| 27 | I say this because I believe that those constitutional issues have to be decided once and for all at this year 's Party Conference . |
| 28 | Her anger and resentment grew as she drove home and for the rest of that evening she found it difficult to get David Markham out of her mind . |
| 29 | After his two trips into Benghazi , he had submitted proposals for a further expedition to destroy once and for all the harbour facilities . |
| 30 | In The Dear Deceit ( 1960 ) the dichotomy between truth and fiction hinted at in The Sycamore Tree is brought to the fore , and the possibility of reaching a pre-discursive reality is relinquished once and for all . |