Example sentences of "for and " in BNC.
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| 1 | An apt combination of noun and adjective , a bon mot , an evocative phrase , is as much as an artist can hope for and a reader can expect . |
| 2 | By the week of the referendum , an Irish Times opinion poll had a clear and substantial majority against the amendment , 45 per cent for and 55 per cent against ( Irish Times , 25 June 1986 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ We have achieved our two objectives — to encourage young chefs to look out for and use British ingredients in their recipes , and also to find a delicious selection of dishes to use in the British menu promotion later this year . ’ |
| 4 | In such inversions of social regard we can again see how movement will tend to confound the police preference for and reliance on a rigidly maintained classificatory world . |
| 5 | All accounted for and two and a half hours to spare . |
| 6 | ‘ Tell the laird , ’ he shouted out , ‘ that we will have him out here , to hear us for himself — that is what we came for and we will stand here till we see him . |
| 7 | The length of time spent stretching depends on the sport you are training for and the degree of flexibility you wish to attain . |
| 8 | The report discusses the implications of the short time local authorities had to plan for use of the grant , in particular the difficulties within the time scale of consulting users , carers and others in planning for and providing new services . |
| 9 | Know your medicines is divided into three sections : section 1 gives general information on using medicines , and advice on questions to ask a doctor , nurse or pharmacist ; section 2 covers the actions of medicines on the body system ; section 3 is an index of medicines to enable users to check what each is for and what effects they can have . |
| 10 | They also dance for and with each other . |
| 11 | In The Sleeping Beauty Carabosse shows Aurora what a spindle is for and Aurora later shows how she can use it before she pricks her finger . |
| 12 | At £175 including VAT this is not a cheap sander , but you get what you pay for and for the keen d-iyer or woodworker , or even a tradesman , this is an excellent tool that should last a lifetime . |
| 13 | If , as Hugh Kenner believes , Pound never ceased to love Dorothy even while he loved Olga , this is surely part of what he loved in her , an aspect of what she meant to him ; and so Pound 's feelings for and about England were , right to the end , not much less tormented than any English reader 's can be . |
| 14 | The outcome turned on the block votes of union delegations at opposite ends of the conflict ; for and against establishing a separate body . |
| 15 | People expect risks they did not ask for and can not control to be much lower -by 10 or 100 times — than those which they run willingly . |
| 16 | Later joining the intelligence corps , his attachment to Special Operations Executive in German-occupied north-west Greece and afterwards with the British Information Service in Athens gave him an abiding affection for and an understanding of the Hellenic scene . |
| 17 | To many of her friends she seemed more a mystic than a likely scientist , despite her encyclopaedic knowledge of natural history ; a woman with religious respect for and understanding of the environment , an ecologist long before the term was widely known . |
| 18 | ‘ They have to account for and justify what clothing they choose to wear , if they are on the Pill , their behaviour , and lifestyle . |
| 19 | The report was widely heralded as a blueprint for re-establishing the accountancy profession 's right to set the framework for and to improve financial reporting in the corporate sector . |
| 20 | This is work which the majority of section police see themselves as unsuited for and dislike when they have to do it . |
| 21 | Given the importance of this area of Russia in the Civil War and the Polish campaign , the Party 's care for and vigilance over the army does not come as a surprise ; nor does the considerable military presence in 1922 in civilian organizations like the hospital and the automobile workshop . |
| 22 | But for many years after 1979 this approach seemed to embody many of the qualities which a depressed , declining nation yearned for and acclaimed . |
| 23 | At breakfast together Fisher exploded and attacked the Church Union and all that it stood for and said that they had done great harm and ought to apologize . |
| 24 | Home-produced building materials , such as bricks and other refractories , adjust themselves to the prospective demand indicated by the numbers of houses contracted for and begun . |
| 25 | That City is attacked in The Rock , but ‘ this London of ours ’ is also celebrated as a city to be worked for and redeemed by a Christianity sometimes remarkably primitive , a pared-down Christianity among the wild men , as a London church is seen as a ‘ House ’ built of |
| 26 | The film was everything they had hoped for and they loved every minute of it . |
| 27 | She went on the skiing holiday he had paid for and accepted his excuse about his daughter 's measles without a moment 's hesitation . |
| 28 | These imports have to be paid for and what is interesting — and why manufacturing is vital to us — is that over the past hundred years , if not longer , seventy per cent of these imports have been paid for by the export of British manufactured goods . |
| 29 | There was nothing to rush for and nowhere to rush to . |
| 30 | But after the race riots it was seen as something which the state would have both to cater for and take control of . |