Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] and for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that 's an internal target for us to work on and for you to have fixed in your mind because everything above four thousand pound you will get forty five percent commission instead of thirty . |
| 2 | He said it was all right for the pot to come off and for him to walk on the injured foot . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Because she had to know once and for all what was going on , that was why . |
| 5 | The amendment by an expatriate Scot , George Cunningham ( Labour , Islington ) , by ensuring that a 40 per cent vote of the electorate ( not simply of those voting ) would have to be achieved for a devolution bill to go through and for a repeal order not to be tabled , made devolution , at least for Wales , virtually an impossibility . |
| 6 | Marxism attempts to replace that code without providing any serious motive to induce people to behave decently and for the common good . |
| 7 | After his two trips into Benghazi , he had submitted proposals for a further expedition to destroy once and for all the harbour facilities . |
| 8 | I did once suggest a conference of Scottish historians , Gaelic scholars , the Scottish Mountaineering Club and other authorities , with the Ordnance Survey in attendance , to agree once and for all on the correct spelling of Gaelic place names . |
| 9 | ZOLA Budd-Pieterse tomorrow sets out to exorcise once and for all the wretched memory of her darkest hours back in Britain five years ago . |
| 10 | It was against the law for him to do so and for the store to serve him . |
| 11 | Erm but we do need an approval to go out and for quotations and sorry tenders on this , on this work , which is actually urgent . |
| 12 | I urge him to study the remarks of Professor Glennerster , who knows rather more about this matter than he does and has laid the two-tier rumours to rest once and for all . |
| 13 | The hiatus over the Maastricht Treaty caused by the Danish veto provides the leaders of Europe with perhaps their last chance to reject once and for all the notion of political integration . |
| 14 | The Department of the Environment has agreed to fund a major study into deaths and diseases among marine mammals in the North Sea , in an effort to determine once and for all whether they are linked to pollution . |
| 15 | Cindy began to cry again and for a while the two of them sat in silence , gently swinging to and fro . |
| 16 | In conceiving of systems as made up of more or less functionally autonomous elements … the elements are not merely ‘ parts ’ but are seen to exist in and for ‘ themselves ’ . |
| 17 | I had n't asked him how he thought he was going to get in and for one terrible minute I thought he was going to shoot the lock and kick the door in . |
| 18 | And it is surely in keeping with the Kremlin 's efforts to win trust abroad , to remove once and for all an issue which intrudes into every high-level encounter with Sweden . |
| 19 | I 've made up my mind — I 'm going to tell him myself that this nonsense has got to end once and for all . |
| 20 | But in the present case it was time to take a stand , to declare once and for all that on this occasion at least the truth was as obvious and evident as it appeared to be . |
| 21 | In the final show Diane ( Shelley Long ) returns after a six year absence from the series to declare once and for all her love for Sam ( Ted Danson ) . |
| 22 | In the final show Diane ( Shelley Long ) returns after a six year absence from the series to declare once and for all her love for Sam ( Ted Danson ) . |
| 23 | Often the only way for that to happen was for those already in the cities to move out and for those contemplating a move in not to come . |
| 24 | Instead , Anna 's limbs suddenly began to jerk alarmingly and for several seconds she thrashed her head from side to side until tiny bubbles of foam appeared on her lips . |
| 25 | However , on May 31 there were reports of widespread support among civil servants and soldiers for the military rulers to step down and for a rapid handover of power to a civilian government . |
| 26 | The money was as shadowily outlined as the permission , but , like the EFR agreement itself , it revealed the government 's unwillingness to relinquish once and for all its place in the search for inexhaustible energy . |
| 27 | The professor had treated this book with proper severity , and Himmler wanted me to dispose once and for all of this type of scientific mischief-making . |
| 28 | The latest follower of this school of thought is Robert D. Riggs , who , in a Harvard dissertation of 1987 , tried to dispose once and for all of what he calls the ‘ dualism ’ ( a term he adopted from Mies ) , i.e. the belief in an intended difference between the two signs . |
| 29 | Scientific searches , with appropriate instrumentation , are now able to prove once and for all that these UFOs do exist , and can provide information about their nature . |
| 30 | Last seen fronting the spasmodically brilliant but ill-fated Riff Raff , tonight he casts the ghosts aside to prove once and for all the capital has an answer to Iggy Pop and Lux Interior all rolled into one . |