Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Irishman had the choice of the two horses in Ascot 's H & T Walker Chase last month , and successfully opted for Deep Sensation . |
| 2 | Research methods are to be treated as a collection of tools designed and thereby suited for particular jobs . |
| 3 | One top dealer used to take the odd afternoon off , and secretly work for another licensed dealer nearby , taking his commission payments there cash in hand . |
| 4 | If you do want to portray an older figure , it would be preferable to try Hermione in The Winter 's Tale — she is a more fantastical character , without the added complications of historical authenticity , and so allows for greater flexibility of characterisation . |
| 5 | The TSB 's new Family Bonus plan allows up to eight in a family to pool their nest eggs and so qualify for higher rates of interest . |
| 6 | Now in recent years , what has happened is that because of the recession , mineral operators instead of looking for enormous new areas to work have been seeking to erm improve er through their own review processes , the working within their existing sites and perhaps to go for some modest increases , so the number of applications has kept up , the amount of work that we are engaged in has er been at least as much as in the past and in some cases because of enforcement matters has been greater , but the fee income has been slipping . |
| 7 | I mean if the evaluation suggests that something or other needs changing , then you want people to be already so interested in the evaluation and perhaps looking for useful things to come out of it , that they are already half committed to the changes . |
| 8 | In attempting to deal with the observable and measurable aspects of leadership behaviour , and perhaps to simplify for normative purposes , leadership research has focused on a narrow set of styles — democratic , autocratic , and laissez-faire , for example . |
| 9 | On the other hand , if you have lost your partner and like two branches of a tree , you had grown together in kindness and only lived for each other through thick and thin , then talk inwardly to your partner . |
| 10 | This view is held by Mr Leahy ; it is expressed most forcibly by Jeffrey Sachs , a Harvard economist who has advised the Russians and long argued for more aid . |
| 11 | Our members wanted it and in many industries it makes sense , but the bigger task , the main event , is to see whether by a more formal relationship , a more formal partnership , we can build a union which is better than the T & G , better than the G M B and better suited for modern conditions than any trade union so far created in Britain . |
| 12 | A biochemist colleague has kindly provided me with a bottle of hydrogen peroxide , and enough hydroquinone for 50 bombardier beetles . |
| 13 | To commit our cause to God , and especially to pray for those who had been trapped in France and were hurrying to the beaches of Dunkirk . |
| 14 | Beyond the door lay the cargo compartment , bare , bleak , functional and obviously designed for one purpose only , the transport of missiles . |
| 15 | The independent sector provides some models and much experience for any new initiatives at grassroots level . |
| 16 | Add the tomatoes , tomato purée and wine , season and gently cook for 5 minutes . |
| 17 | We are quite keen to look at equity options , debt equity swaps er perhaps talk a to the government about an extension of the business expansion scheme , specifically into manufacturing industry er and generally look for innovative solutions , persuade to customers to take loans out instead of overdrafts . |
| 18 | Sometimes Finch would leave Yolande in the morning for the studio and not return for several days . |
| 19 | After this flight the aircraft was de-rigged again and not flown for several weeks . |
| 20 | As a researcher , it was very important to be sensitive to these problems and consistently reassure social workers that I was not undertaking any semi-official enquiry , and not looking for particular cases that ‘ go wrong ’ . |
| 21 | some sedatives ( to be used with caution and not recommended for regular use ) . |
| 22 | A bottle of house red lived up to the expectations predicted by the standard of the food — rich and fruity and not recommended for those driving home . |
| 23 | I do n't mind the idea of doing love scenes if they are part and parcel of the job and not inserted for sensational reasons . |
| 24 | This was highlighting the fact , that although , er , Freud thought psychoanalytic should be used in a neutral nerve and not used for any active aggression , an exception seemed to be made with Woodrow Wilson . |
| 25 | The Law Commission thought that this would exclude products " designed and normally bought for commercial use " , but that there might be borderline cases . |
| 26 | Tools , after all , extend the very possibility of humanity as productive agent , and thus make for obvious analogies with biological function . |
| 27 | The right to reimbursement is subject to the Limitation Act and thus lasts for six years from the date of payment . |
| 28 | Yet when he set off on 20 September 1519 , with a royal mandate to search for a passage through to the Mar del Sur , and thus to determine for certain that the Spice Islands were within the Spanish domains , he had not the foggiest notion how far he might have to travel . |
| 29 | Charles Martel had them out in 737 , but the island was laid waste and largely abandoned for three centuries , the Bishop and clergy fleeing and the Counts of Melgueil , of evil repute , appropriating the see and its revenues ; yet in 798 St Theodulph of Orléans reported that despite this , and pirates , there were still four chapters there . |
| 30 | ‘ Then I have to stay here in hospital and just wait for this toxaemia thing to develop ? ’ asked Faye anxiously . |