Example sentences of "[adj] and for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is then a wonderful opportunity for those who have survived , because the field is clear and for some time newcomers are chary of entering it . |
| 2 | It was , therefore , all the more depressing for the Taylors to find colour more of a front-page issue than the fact that John raised nearly £1 million for Cheltenham 's unemployed and for local crime prevention . |
| 3 | Er I think we must remind ourselves that er this year 's as I say is by no means er generous and for that reason we 're not aiming higher , not because we would n't like to , but because we recognize the , the restrictions placed from elsewhere . |
| 4 | Becoming a competent swimmer is obviously sensible and for those who sail a knowledge of seamanship is essential . |
| 5 | Fortunately the wedge of cheese was thick and tasty and for this she was grateful . |
| 6 | There was murder within marriage because a husband or a wife wanted life to be different and for one reason or another could find no other way to bring that about . |
| 7 | ‘ Many companies , however successful , tend to be somewhat inbred and for this reason people often welcome an injection of new thinking into their affairs . ’ |
| 8 | At the time , neither Ruskin Road nor the following Beynon Road had been made up or developed and for some time , the trams ran on what in effect was reserved track . |
| 9 | This proved too ambitious ; the Twenty-Second Session favoured separate texts for civil and for criminal matters , and a subsequent Expert Group , meeting in New Delhi in 1982 , decided that a model bilateral agreement in each of these areas was more appropriate than a draft convention . |
| 10 | His face hardened and for one dreadful moment she thought he was going to turn away . |
| 11 | The bed appeared un-made and for all intents and purposes I did n't see her , had I seen her erm the situation would have been very different . |
| 12 | However this is not usual and for this reason , LIFESPAN give a warning . |
| 13 | Although there are differences in the method of removal favoured by different surgeons ( Goodall , 1957 ) , it is usual to spare as much of the thalamus , basal ganglia and hippocampal cortex as possible and for this reason Austin and Grant ( 1955 ) , among others , have pointed out that the operation might be better described as hemi-decortication , reserving the term hemispherectomy for those cases in which subcortical structures are also destroyed . |
| 14 | Mass production on an artificial medium is now possible and for some formulations the endotoxin is extracted . |
| 15 | It is clear that over the past year everyone in has worked extremely hard and for long hours . |
| 16 | This control by the government of the life and work of the House is pervasive and for most purposes has ended any corporate sense of ‘ the House ’ as a body which could oppose the government of the day . |
| 17 | We may no longer need to raise money to build hospitals , but money is certainly needed to support and build hospices for the terminally ill and for those areas of health care that the hard-pressed resources of the National Health Service do not reach . |
| 18 | Then he fell ill and for several months was unfit for any work : the cost of medicines , the increase in debts , his feebleness when , too early , he returned to work , combined to make him look , a man in the stable-yard had said , ‘ like a living skeletal ’ . |
| 19 | Residential accommodation for elderly and for younger physically handicapped people : local authority supported residents : year ending 31 March 1990 : England . |
| 20 | Its rationale shifted but its purpose in one respect at least remained , and orthodox women to this day follow through the ritual of purification at the mikva every month and abstain from physical contact with their husbands during their times of bleeding and for seven days thereafter ( = two weeks every month ) . |
| 21 | For the poor and for rich people ; |
| 22 | Bush called for greater funding for housing for the poor and for inner city redevelopment . |
| 23 | By a deathbed grant he ensured the foundation at Denhall in the Wirral of a hospital to care for the poor and for those shipwrecked on the passage to Ireland . |
| 24 | Cut all main branches back to a few inches long and for each prepare 2–3 scions of the new variety as for whip and tongue grafting , but trim their bases to a long wedge shape . |
| 25 | But the rotational periods are correspondingly long and for all states are quite simply related to the rotational constants of the molecules . |
| 26 | Food was short and for two days I was kept running round trying to buy up supplies , with the result that I had to retire to bed with blistered feet . |
| 27 | The Act provides for the local education authority to ensure that a child identified as having special educational needs is given education within an ordinary school as long as that is compatible with efficient use of resources and efficient education , both for the child concerned and for other children at the school . |
| 28 | In particular I think it should be recognised that the role of the unions , NALGO and G M D in helping that process of change has been quite fundamental and for that reason , because we appreciate and value the essential way in which the unions have contributed to the process of changing the organisation I consider that the they much trailed proposals from the opposition groups to cut , or in the other case , to reduce the NALGO office are quite misguided . |
| 29 | This was usually worn when selling The Fascist and for other ceremonial duties . |
| 30 | However , it is necessary to emphasise that exploration of materials such as sand , clay , soil and wood for sheer delight , without the intervention of an adult , is extremely important and for some children lasts a long time . |