Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] and for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And I was walking past and for some silly reason I felt like putting my fist through a couple of windows . |
| 4 | For walking out and for Sundays he had a cord jacket and cord trousers . |
| 5 | Nothing is more touching and sad than to see how these people — cast out and despised by everyone including their kin , living in and for their regular ‘ balls ’ where they compete to dress up to act out , for a moment , the roles they would like to play in real life , and know they ca n't — reconstruct their own human groups . |
| 6 | Cutty Ranks ' ‘ Who Say Me Done ’ is Cutty providing once and for all that he 's not just a one-year wonder , with that perfect voice ruling a wild ragga tune laden with samples from a certain 1969 reggae classic . |
| 7 | The milk cows produced quite respectable yields ( 3,200–3,600kg ) , calving regularly and for many years , and able to live out all year round . |
| 8 | However , the Audit Commission , a government efficiency agency , has still criticized some local authorities for spending excessively and for wasting resources , e.g. some 700m has been ‘ inefficiently ’ spent in one year on council house maintenance repairs . |
| 9 | These children on the whole had greater problems and cried more than the Hungarian children who had been coming earlier and for longer . |
| 10 | Wheeziness which is like this and is worse ( < ) damp weather , better ( > ) sitting up and for fresh air . |
| 11 | Erm we 're linking with the relevant staff association , erm just some general er points about how we identify and evaluate erm and put together the training plan , And and settling once and for all about the national recognized qualification . |
| 12 | But for other Keynesians , particularly in the United States , the Phillips curve furnished the last equation of the Keynesian model , supplanting once and for all that notorious intruder , the condition . |