Example sentences of "[verb] and for the [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 I delivered it to my agent to be framed and for the final hanging in the boardroom .
3 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 .
4 Owen had other fish to fry and for the next two days he was busy on other things .
5 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 .
6 But one winter she got flu , her work was sapped and for the first time the critics were unkind .
7 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 ) .
8 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 .
9 The marquis 's voice had softened and for the first time Topaz gave him a wide smile .
10 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 .
11 We ask and for the younger nations help to grow to maturity Help us that wherever we may go we may amen
12 Now the situation is changing and for the first time two excellent books have appeared on pain in children .
13 So Lauda won and for the first time he led the championship : 48 to 45.5 for Prost .
14 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 .
15 At the end of that time they again expressed doubts as to their liability to pay and for the next three years paid under protest .
16 The work was not taxing and for the first time in his life he had flexible free hours .
17 It also requires money to pay for transferring important components or sections of the aircraft structure to a place where they can be properly examined and possibly tested and for the different kinds of structural tests which have to be carried out on undamaged components .
18 For the second time since the 19th century the value of the try has been changed and for the second time this century the drop goal value has been altered .
19 The weeks changed and for the last two days of my stay , I was the only attender .
20 Dunlop refused and for the first time revealed that he considered himself to be the sole owner of the horse .
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