Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] and for " in BNC.
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1 | 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 ’ . |
2 | ‘ These people , striving for power , should understand once and for all : any attempts to draw the armed forces into the political struggle are criminal and fraught with danger . ’ |
3 | Will someone please decide once and for all what we can eat and drink ! |
4 | Let us recognize once and for all that the modest silence … has landed England in child harlotry . |
5 | It 's erm an area where two elements of the law do n't quite meet tidily and For instance if you worth four hundred thousand pounds big figure , and you had a hundred thousand of it in your own name and three hundred thousand jointly with your wife , wife die er you die , your estate for probate purposes is a hundred thousand pounds . |
6 | Even so , the tradition of several centuries does not die easily and for many people mind remains opposed to matter , remains the opposite of the body . |
7 | If such a working model of haemoglobin could be made , it would prove once and for all that it is the iron and not the porphyrin that 's ultimately responsible for the properties of haemoglobin . |
8 | A survey would establish once and for all whether the coal they are taking out is paying its way and whether the pit has a future . ’ |
9 | Two points are worth remembering from all this : perfect swims do n't last forever and for every one that declines another will have been changed by the same forces into an excellent one . |
10 | This referendum would determine once and for all whether or not the French people supported his self-determination policy . |
11 | It 's part of a new study which it 's hoped will determine once and for all whether there is a greater incidence of cancer in the families of radiation workers . |
12 | I could give many other examples which would kill once and for all the idea so often propounded by the opponents of local income tax that such a tax would not benefit people on the lowest incomes . |