Example sentences of "and [adj] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " This Meeting , with every feeling of humanity for the distressed Sufferers , who have the misfortune to be shipwrecked on the coast of this Island , have to regret that numbers of the Country prople , shaking off all fear of God , or regard to the laws , are in the constant practice against every rule of Christian charity , or hospitality , of resorting in numbers to the shores , where strangers have the Misfortune of being shipwrecked , and that for the sole purpose of plunder ; which practice this Meeting hold in the greatest abhorrence , and now declare their disapprobation of ; and in order , as much as possible , to remedy this evil , this Meeting not only collectively , but individually , pledge themselves to use their utmost exertions , not only for the preservation of the property of the individuals , who may have the Misfortune to be wrecked on these coasts , but also for bringing to condign punishment all and every such persons as may be found plundering from wrecks : " |
| 2 | You had to have meals-on-wheels because that was what there was , and particularly the meals-on-wheels study we did in Islington [ Barker & Noble , 1983 ] which clearly indicated that half the recipients desperately needed meals-on-wheels , but they needed a lot of other things as well , and that for the other half they were inappropriate anyway . |
| 3 | In December 1697 a civil list of £700,000 a year was established , which , for the first time , distinguished between money provided for defence purposes and that for the other expenses of government . |
| 4 | It is said that one of the merits of ‘ Documenta ’ this time round is that , with four much-travelled curators , it is truly international in its scope , and that for the first time it takes account of artists not operating in the great ‘ art capitals ’ … |
| 5 | Some astronomers think that the more rapidly a body accretes the hotter it gets , and that for the outer Moon to have melted it is necessary for the Moon to have accreted in roughly 0.01 Ma . |
| 6 | Many organizations such as the Royal National Institute for the Blind ( RNIB ) and that for the deaf ( RNID ) provide services on a national basis , aiming to promote better understanding of and provision for the needs of the people they represent . |
| 7 | This was at first the case in Britain , though the entrance examination for the foreign office was made considerably tougher in 1871 and that for the diplomatic service became more competitive from the 1880s onwards . |
| 8 | Perhaps Spinoza could have strengthened it in various ways , by saying that people can not on odd occasions deliberately act out of the character they try to give their lives , without destroying that character , and that for the rational person the character of a life which includes good relations with other people at large is essential for personal fulfilment . |
| 9 | I will not rehearse again my reasons for believing that the European Parliament is incapable of filling this democratic void and that for the foreseeable future the elected legislature should remain in national hands . |
| 10 | More distressingly , we discovered that the Aru islands and the Greater Bird of Paradise were no longer on their trading routes and that for the last twenty years they had been pursuing the shorter and more profitable triangular passage between Celebes , Java and Borneo . |
| 11 | The accommodation schedule for the War Department was completed on 13th September and that for the Foreign Office on 20th September . |
| 12 | ( ii ) Explain the difference between the plot for the real gas and that for the ideal gas . |
| 13 | She had established the fact that the real Delia Forbes was in Australia and that for the past few weeks someone else had been using her name and address ; because of her desperate desire to help Barney she had leapt to conclusions which could be hopelessly wide of the mark . |
| 14 | The Labour amendment was to explore ways in which resources can be provided to fund and enhance refurbishment programme without closures and that for the next two years the additional necessary funding be sourced from housing benefit income and income from the sale of East Midlands Airport and from other capital receipts . |
| 15 | Cool and fresh it 's to be for the fish , more studied and solid for the main course ; for the dessert , fragile and delicate . |
| 16 | Furthermore , your Lordships may feel that it is inconvenient and undesirable for the criminal law as enunciated in Lawrence and Dobson to be in conflict with the law affecting the title to money and other kinds of property . |
| 17 | It would be impracticable and undesirable for the High Court of Justice to embark upon an inquiry concerning the effect or the effectiveness of the internal procedures in the High Court of Parliament or an inquiry whether in any particular case those procedures were effectively followed . |
| 18 | Looking back I am constantly amazed and grateful for the high risks that others took by giving me responsibility in my early years in ICI . |
| 19 | But Hambleton District Council opposes the move as the property lies in the heart of the town 's industrial estate and it says it is noisy and unsuitable for the old . |
| 20 | The mints must be hard and dry for the best results and some produce , as I have seen , impressive flashes . |
| 21 | A bit too frail and woolly for the rough and tumble of ordinary practice . |
| 22 | These lectures making science comprehensible and palatable for the fashionable , the earnest and the intellectual circles of London were not the whole programme of the Institution . |
| 23 | But the shock left me nervous and depressed for the next few days . |
| 24 | The programme extends the company 's current vendor-recruitment efforts , and is designed to make it easy and profitable for the smaller vendors to support the HP-UX workstations . |
| 25 | It forms the basis for contempt on the part of the young and strong for the old and weak , and the increasing fear of human mortality which old age seems to represent so vividly . |
| 26 | Hazel and his companions had spent the night doing everything that came unnaturally to them , and this for the first time . |
| 27 | Other authors have been more coy : " I have left the central concept of this paper , namely pragmatic context , in rather thorough vagueness , and this for the simple reason that I see no clear way to reduce the vagueness at the moment " ( Bar-Hillel , 1970:80 ) . |
| 28 | That is if erm material , material for these topics should be lively and interesting for the broad range of pupil ability i.e. differentiation . |
| 29 | The new line ranges from the 99/711 , 721 and 731 with one , two and three processors , available next quarter , through the dyadic and two-plus-one 822 and 832 for the fourth quarter to the 941 , with four processors in single image configuration , and the 99/982 doubled-up version of that , plus two-plus-two , three-plus-two , three-plus-three and four-plus-three variants , the 942 , 952 , 962 , 972 and 982 , all to ship in the third quarter . |
| 30 | On July 13 the Egyptian Foreign Minister , Amr Mohammed Moussa , said in Cairo : " It is first and foremost for the Arab countries and for the Gulf countries to play a central role [ in an Arab security system ] . |