Example sentences of "[verb] and 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 delivered it to my agent to be framed and for the final hanging in the boardroom . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Owen had other fish to fry and for the next two days he was busy on other things . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But one winter she got flu , her work was sapped and for the first time the critics were unkind . |
| 10 | ‘ She came back again when the baby was born and for a few months she tried , I 'll give her that . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Arnulf began his formal education at the cathedral school of Seés and for a short time held the position of treasurer of Bayeux . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The marquis 's voice had softened and for the first time Topaz gave him a wide smile . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | P'raps they 've gone blackberryin' , he thought and for a fleeting moment he wished that he was with them . |
| 20 | We ask and for the younger nations help to grow to maturity Help us that wherever we may go we may amen |
| 21 | Now the situation is changing and for the first time two excellent books have appeared on pain in children . |
| 22 | So Lauda won and for the first time he led the championship : 48 to 45.5 for Prost . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Though there is no appeal procedure laid down if the chairman of the meeting rejects a proxy duly lodged and therefore does not allow that creditor 's vote , it is open to the creditor affected to apply to the court for the chairman 's decision to be reversed and for a new meeting to be held . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The work was not taxing and for the first time in his life he had flexible free hours . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The weeks changed and for the last two days of my stay , I was the only attender . |