Example sentences of "[noun pl] and for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He edged his way through the standing drinkers and for a moment she thought he was going to join her , but he merely nodded and drifted down the room , taking up a position by the wall where he seemed to become engrossed in watching the efforts of a group of youngsters on the one-armed bandit . |
| 2 | Finally , on April 10 it was given out that the government had agreed to the opposition 's main demands for the rapid legalization of political parties and for an amnesty for political activists . |
| 3 | For this purpose , we need to show that the roles serve as a focus for patterns of social relationships and for a framework enabling social development . |
| 4 | This course is unique in providing vocational training suitable for specialist physical education posts in schools and for a range of professional roles in the leisure industry . |
| 5 | Servants gathered on the steps and for a while all was confusion as stewards , bailiffs , cooks , huntsmen and pages hurried down to greet the Santerres . |
| 6 | Her feet tapped loudly on the curving stone steps and for a moment she felt like a bit-player descending to the dungeons — with horror , and a stack of movie cameras , lying ahead . |
| 7 | The proponents of unitary authorities in the Royal Commission on Local Government in England accepted a need for a wider authority for some services in the metropolitan areas and for an authority that could prepare a strategic plan for conurbations . |
| 8 | Alison refilled our cups and for a moment we took refuge in the polite rituals of milk and sugar . |
| 9 | So , I 'd an appointment in town at the hairdressers and for a legwax and that you do n't want to let yourself go I do n't want him to get back and catch me with my knickers down and my nail varnish all chipped … |
| 10 | If this were so , then any inclination we may have to think that the heat we attribute to external objects and the bodily sensation of being hot must be alike derives from our using the same word for a quality of external objects and for a sensation , and not vice versa . |
| 11 | You can always look back and say " What if " , but we must remember that we got ourselves out of a couple of scrapes on last two days and for a time we looked absolutely terrible , but we turned it around and could have won . |
| 12 | Many local authorities withdrew or reduced their contributions and for a while Unwin financed the continuation of the Committee 's work himself to publish a Second and final report in March 1933 , which made a more detailed proposal for a narrow green girdle around London . |
| 13 | From being 10-6 down at the interval their pure brand of running rugby thrilled the crowd as the Souter backs blazed over for four thrilling tries and for a victory that appeared well beyond their reach at the half-way stage . |
| 14 | For the empty command of a gang of thugs and for a government that 's just using you . ’ |
| 15 | Both Australia and New Zealand suggest the need for a cross-fertilisation of resources and for a measure of compromise between those of differing views . |
| 16 | an inter-related set of private sector demands for stocks of money , government bonds ( and net foreign assets ) , and durable goods and for a flow of nondurable consumption goods ; these demands depend on wealth and real returns . |
| 17 | Well , yes , they have in cash terms and for a proportion of the population they have in real terms too . |
| 18 | Classifications of political systems have been undertaken in diverse ways and for a variety of purposes . |
| 19 | His eyes glinted through the black lashes and for a moment he seemed to be offering some sort of olive branch . |
| 20 | Rostov reached for the flat permahide envelope which contained his orders and for a moment he brushed absently at the crisp new admiral 's stripe on his sleeve . |
| 21 | She had walked down the stairs and for a moment been taken for , and almost become , Kettering 's wife . |
| 22 | A good family resort , Cisternino was once the domain of monks and bishops and for a time came under the rule of the Venetian doges . |
| 23 | The Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum is closed for a year for repairs and for a reorganisation of the present installations . |
| 24 | Renewing calls for a ban on all nuclear weapons tests and for an end to the production of weapons-grade plutonium , Yeltsin proposed the creation of an international agency monitoring nuclear weapons " through the whole cycle " , from the extraction of uranium to weapons manufacture . |
| 25 | The Expenditure Committee returned to this field in 1978 , and reiterated their recommendations for the appointment of planning assessors and for a review of the planning system . |
| 26 | The chairman of the committee was Representative Jim Jones of Oklahoma , a conservative Democrat who agreed with the main thrust of Reagan 's economic policy — the need for budget cuts and for a reduction in taxation . |
| 27 | It is now recognized that the trachoma agent is very closely related to the organism that causes non-specific urethritis and is responsible for 50 per cent of sticky eyes in newborn babies and for a proportion of cases of salpingitis in women . |
| 28 | The adversarial system of criminal justice in Britain and the USA , together with less emphasis on community policing , may be partly responsible for the alienation of doctors and police and for a lowering of standards . |
| 29 | Avery sat to Minton for a couple of portraits and for a period saw him about once a fortnight . |
| 30 | 17.38 ( i ) Pupils should have frequent opportunities to write in different contexts and for a variety of purposes and audiences , including themselves . |