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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Law Commission thought that this would exclude products " designed and normally bought for commercial use " , but that there might be borderline cases . |
| 8 | Tools , after all , extend the very possibility of humanity as productive agent , and thus make for obvious analogies with biological function . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In British English , examples of this are [ h ] -dropping and glottalling , which are regionally widespread and usually marked for social status or style . |
| 11 | Future funding from the Board to law centres would be for cases done under the green forms and legal aid schemes , including any new arrangements that might be developed , ‘ and possibly grants for specific types of work where the law centres could demonstrate that they would provide a better and more efficient service in ways that did not lend themselves to payment on a case by case basis . ’ |
| 12 | The siting of the control and communications unit where the emergency signals are received and possibly monitored for secondary action i.e. isolating services etc. , is imperative , and slave mimic display panels should be considered at other and remote positions from the prime risk areas to ensure cover for the control of the emergency operations . |
| 13 | Floribundas Pruning for Floribundas follows the same general principles as for H.T.s , except that it should & not so hard — the first year cut-back should be T-2 inches ( 2.5–5cm ) longer , leaving some 4–6 inches ( 10–15cm ) of stem from the base and still aiming for outward-pointing buds to develop the open cup shape . |
| 14 | Men could examine their consciences , and still opt for different sides . |
| 15 | For two years he needed massage several times a day and still goes for regular check-ups at hospital . |
| 16 | Management training for ryokan operators and staff is more and more geared for western guests ' needs and comprehension . |
| 17 | In America recalcitrant administrators who implement the regulation of industry with excessive enthusiasm are noticed , and quickly purchased for private sector employment if they are exceptionally meritorious . |
| 18 | It is a process that forces line management to consider their operational priorities and also allows for decentralized decision-making . |
| 19 | Cornell and French ( 1983a and 1983b ) included different income and capital gains taxes on futures and shares in their no-arbitrage condition , incorporated the tax timing option and also allowed for stochastic interest rates . |
| 20 | At least the knights had not been party to the massacre ; they had achieved their task and now looked for suitable reward . |
| 21 | People can — and often do for large sums of money — agree to be defamed . |
| 22 | A small intestinal biopsy specimen was taken from the third part of the duodenum , and routinely processed for histological examination . |
| 23 | In this way , people lose their virginity , experiment with drink or drugs , run up debts , consider divorce and even vote for political parties they swore they would never support . |
| 24 | For the tongue-tied it 's worth preparing some stock comments and even preparing for social chit-chat by noting interesting stories in the media . |
| 25 | The context , temperature , is one of the most obvious and frequently used for negative numbers . |
| 26 | ‘ They should select a side for the Tests and then pick for one-day games , ’ Doshi said . |
| 27 | When they reached the shearers ' quarters she became a bundle of activity , doing all she could to assist Matt in setting up the large barbecue , and then searching for dry wood to boil the water for the billy tea . |
| 28 | He was almost blue with cold , having had to scramble up an iceberg , loaded with a hundred pounds of scuba gear , and then left for long minutes all by himself . |
| 29 | SEVKI AKINCI : a 16-year old Kurdish boy , on 9 April 1992 he beaten and abused by soldiers , held down over an open fire , and then left for dead . |
| 30 | One hesitates over publicising these things for fear of sparking imitations , but you 're going to read about it somewhere so it might as well be here — over the past few weeks it has become clear that setting up telescopes to watch people tapping their numbers into automatic teller machines and then scavenging for discarded receipts bearing the account number is a really outdated way of defrauding banks and their customers — these days , you set up a bogus teller machine of your own and record the card details as the customer keys in the number : in the latest instance , a gang in Manchester , Connecticut set up a mobile teller machine in the Buckland Hills Mall Associated Press reports , sabotaged the other machines in the shopping mall to encourage people to use it , and later wheeled the machine away and debriefed it on all its card secrets , using the data to make up counterfeit cards which were subsequently used to withdraw cash from the accounts in the New York area ; moral — stick to machines you know . |