Example sentences of "and [adv] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The end-product of one generation of selection is the starting point for the next generation of selection , and so on for many generations . |
| 2 | This lady also started a shop for shoes , leotards and so on for other classes , so soon I added pink and white to my colours , with the occasional black one as well . |
| 3 | The women who leave Seascale in 1950 will produce approximately a×b×27 children , as will those who leave in 1951 , and so on for 14 years . |
| 4 | And so on for three hours on one piece of celery and a prune wrapped in bacon . |
| 5 | And so on and so on for another hour and a half , sweating and dazed , until at 4.48 a.m. , extremely painfully , out comes young Tom ( not such a bad name ; commonplace , I know ) , emerging head looking like a terrifically cross blue Brussels sprout , splosh go the fluids , splat goes the placenta and there he is . |
| 6 | And so on for several more lines , and all to say he meant to finish with Claire , even though she was expecting his child . |
| 7 | The proofs of purchase remain the same , of course , but the dealer is in a position to take care of installation and so forth for those of a nervous disposition . |
| 8 | There is usually a formal system of discounts , for advertisers spending over a certain level with the station , and perhaps even for early booking , and whenever a station has time to sell which it fears it might fail to dispose of it is possible for the buyer to negotiate on the price . |
| 9 | It 's the very essence of human beings to call in question every form of life , every form of thought , and to raise the possibility of thinking and living in some other way , and perhaps just for this very reason , some final and definitive formulation of the , of human nature , of human knowledge , of human conduct , is in principle unobtainable , and that the best that the philosopher can ever hope to do , is to show that this formulation , that formulation or the other wo n't work . |
| 10 | It is particularly applicable to farms with a high proportion of land suitable for cropping or grassland conservation and less so for marginal or upland areas . |
| 11 | All Boy could think of to explain this was that the man was older than he was , and that he actually had a husband in a sort of way , and not just for one night or a few nights , and so that had to be why he felt differently about the films he watched . |
| 12 | Acrylix brushes are a welcome addition to the range of brushes available to the artist — and not just for acrylic painting . |
| 13 | It makes a perfect base and not just for enthusiastic golfers and golf societies looking for an ideal location . |
| 14 | More than most Europeans , the British were still a lively , distinctive people at the end of the twentieth century — and not only for geographical reasons . |
| 15 | The fact is that parties to contracts do use expert determination for dispute resolution , and not only for certain types of disputes thought more suitable for experts : clauses referring all disputes , both technical and otherwise , are beginning to be found in contracts as a substitute for litigation or arbitration ( see 6.9 ) . |
| 16 | During the 1970s both daily papers showed a heavy reliance on foreign material , and not only for non-African news . |
| 17 | By then I was hearing wedding bells , and not only for Old Red and Margaret . |
| 18 | Pressed flowers can be used on many other printed objects , and not necessarily for commercial purposes . |
| 19 | It therefore followed that the application for admission , made on October 13 , 1988 , remained in force for 28 days under section 2(4) of the Act and not merely for 72 hours under section 135(3) . |
| 20 | We are providing a great deal of advice and training for officials of different carriers — and not merely for British Airways , because we do not expect airline officials to be immigration officers ; that is not their function . |
| 21 | Indeed U may have no conventional meaning , which allows for the creation of new terms , nonce expressions , and thus ultimately for some aspects of language change ( for an explanation of how these communications may be understood , see Schiffer , 1972 : Chapter V ) But crucial for pragmatics , Grice 's theory explains how there can be interesting discrepancies between speaker-meaning ( Grice 's meaning-nn ) and sentence-meaning . |
| 22 | Residential respite care for people with learning disabilities , and possibly also for other user groups . |
| 23 | There are a number of reasons why maintenance research is less attractive than productivity research in general , and particularly so for marginal areas . |
| 24 | ( It is true that to say " women " could at the time , and even today for many people , be regarded as discourteous . ) |
| 25 | Given the reality of the current difficulties with the use of office systems as tools to manage large volumes of records ( a task for which , on the whole , they were not originally designed ) , how can records managers contribute to improving the situation primarily for the creating organisations , and indirectly also for other potential users of the records ? |
| 26 | The area so far excavated was the size of a football pitch , and deep enough for three levels of laboratories and workshops that would be concrete-lined . |
| 27 | Whereas before I 'd be home for perhaps two hours and then away for five months , now I appreciate that there 's a lot more to life . |
| 28 | Staff who wish books to be left out may only use the North side tables for this purpose , and then only for limited periods by arrangement with the Library staff . |
| 29 | Bearing in mind that these clients were ‘ at risk of residential care ’ , most received only one or at the most two services , and then only for certain days in the week ( p. 299 ) . |
| 30 | These give only limited vibrational information , and then only for small molecules . |