Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The power of traditional chiefs was curbed and for the first time women and young people were drawn into the political process . |
| 2 | A successor ( all Heads of Department were eligible for election ) had proved hard to find and for a brief period the chairmanship of the Course had been taken over by the Deputy Director , Brian Tonge . |
| 3 | There has to be a time , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , laying down the pen , began to type again , there has to be a time when excuses are no longer necessary , will never again be necessary , there has to be such a time in everybody 's life , when too soon and too late no longer mean anything , a time , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , when one starts because one starts and for no other reason . |
| 4 | I read more widely and , as news of my expertise spread , people began to seek me out for a ruling on a specific industrial relations issue or for an historical precedent . |
| 5 | I delivered it to my agent to be framed and for the final hanging in the boardroom . |
| 6 | Samantha woke and for a split second imagined she was still at home , still free to stretch and rise and walk and wash , still at liberty to heed her instincts and indulge her whims . |
| 7 | Thanks to , among others , John Robinson and the radical theologians , however , the way has been paved for humanist concerns to become more widely accepted and for the established Church to lose its importance in the areas of both public and private morality . |
| 8 | Owen had other fish to fry and for the next two days he was busy on other things . |
| 9 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 10 | Someone who , through years of toil among parish registers , discerns and for the first time explains the minutiae of demographic change in a northern mill town , is clearly doing that sort of thing . |
| 11 | But one winter she got flu , her work was sapped and for the first time the critics were unkind . |
| 12 | ‘ She came back again when the baby was born and for a few months she tried , I 'll give her that . |
| 13 | As the country found itself on the brink of a constitutional crisis , Mr Havel said the best way to avert such a crisis would be for President Husak to quit and for a strong prime minister to assume his authority temporarily , as the constitution permits . |
| 14 | The purpose of this was to allow the stone to disimpact or for the acute complication to resolve . |
| 15 | pending the receipt of prompt instructions from the bank/organisation keep its interest in the policy in force up to the full sum insured and for the same risks as were covered when the bank's/organisation 's interest was notified ( subject to the insurance not having been replaced elsewhere with the consent of consent of the bank/organisation ) . |
| 16 | Given the size of the European constituencies , it will be difficult , if not impossible , for some candidates to become widely known and for an informed choice to be made . |
| 17 | Government in Britain is not presidential ; it is a collective enterprise in which power is shared and for a beleaguered Prime Minister a power shared is a blame shared . |
| 18 | Arnulf began his formal education at the cathedral school of Seés and for a short time held the position of treasurer of Bayeux . |
| 19 | It worked and for the next half hour she was able to quiz the woman whom she saw as having stolen her happiness on every aspect of her life . |
| 20 | The marquis 's voice had softened and for the first time Topaz gave him a wide smile . |
| 21 | I think that clients , as it happens , have benefited but for the wrong reasons as it were . |
| 22 | This may improve as arrangements for care management are gradually introduced but for the foreseeable future plans will have to reflect a realistic view of available resources . |
| 23 | It took him two weeks to die and for the second of those we spoke together every night by telephone , often for more than an hour . |
| 24 | P'raps they 've gone blackberryin' , he thought and for a fleeting moment he wished that he was with them . |
| 25 | We ask and for the younger nations help to grow to maturity Help us that wherever we may go we may amen |
| 26 | After 1839 the number of staff gradually increased but for the first 20 years the work was confined to southern Britain , limited by the availability of Ordnance Survey maps . |
| 27 | Now the situation is changing and for the first time two excellent books have appeared on pain in children . |
| 28 | So Lauda won and for the first time he led the championship : 48 to 45.5 for Prost . |
| 29 | It is easy to realise that in gusty conditions , if the glider is being flown slowly , the stall may occur high enough for a wing to drop and for an incipient spin to develop with even more serious results . |
| 30 | Their talk and behaviour took a slightly different form from ours just as their uniforms did and for the same reason but their major premises seemed to be the same . |