Example sentences of "and for no [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lobster cocktail was plentiful but a touch cotton-woolly in texture , and for no visible reason arrived on a plate . |
| 2 | The messenger ambled out and for no good reason everybody stopped talking until they heard the lock click . |
| 3 | Elsewhere , and for no good reason , Liverpool 's Kop invented : ‘ We all agree , Tiswas is better than Swapshop ’ and , on a more highbrow note , Stoke City fans sang : ‘ Land of Smoke and glory ; Home of Stoke City ; Higher , higher , higher ; On to victory … |
| 4 | They said that Hamish Deans had unilaterally and for no good reason prevented the signing of the former Celtic striker Andy Walker , now with Bolton , after the player had agreed terms with Falkirk . |
| 5 | When I was at school in the seventies , one afternoon every week throughout the winter term , I put on a pair of ill-fitting plimsolls and plodded miserably , and for no apparent reason , around the wet pavements of a Sussex market town . |
| 6 | Cat owners often notice that their pet will suddenly and for no apparent reason make a headlong dash through the house . |
| 7 | At times Rubberneck wept , shed , and for no apparent reason , bucketing tears in dreadful fits of sadness . |
| 8 | This time , and for no apparent reason , the grip of a woman by the hair of her head . |
| 9 | Frequently and for no apparent reason , there would be a chilling burst of wind and a roar as of a passing train . |
| 10 | In both conditions the fear is qualitatively different from normal anxiety , has sudden onset , and occurs without warning and for no apparent reason . |
| 11 | After an hour , and for no comprehensible reason , the police removed their cordon . |
| 12 | ‘ The premises shall be used for … and for no other purpose including any purpose in class … of the Schedule to the Town and Country ( Use Classes ) Order 1972 ’ . |
| 13 | A standard form of agreement is set out in Appendix I. The essential elements of a confidentiality agreement are an acknowledgment by the purchaser that : ( a ) the existence of the negotiations and all information received relating to the vendor 's business is confidential ; ( b ) the purchaser will maintain the confidentiality and ensure that all persons receiving the information maintain the confidentiality ; ( c ) the purchaser will only use information for assessing its acquisition of the business and for no other purpose ; ( d ) the purchaser will return all the information and either return or destroy all copies if the transaction does not complete . |
| 14 | Mr Freeman , in the Commons , declared the ‘ funds will be used … for pensions , and for no other purpose ’ . |
| 15 | The rejoinder by the defendant to this pleading alleged that the notes were given by Samuel Revill and himself as sureties and were given for the securing of part of the father 's debt and for no other consideration or purpose . |
| 16 | Talbot , J. in that case was required to decide the validity of a condition imposed on a grant of planning permission to use part of the ground floor of certain premises as ‘ an employment agency and for no other use . ’ |
| 17 | This is the motion that says that the Apex conference would be able to debate issues of a general nature which are appropriate for this Congress , the decision making body of the union and for no other conference in the union . |
| 18 | There has to be a time , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , laying down the pen , began to type again , there has to be a time when excuses are no longer necessary , will never again be necessary , there has to be such a time in everybody 's life , when too soon and too late no longer mean anything , a time , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , when one starts because one starts and for no other reason . |
| 19 | She liked Clara because Clara was bright , and for no other reason : she had no need to like her for any other reason , as she was well equipped with a busy social life and a lover . |
| 20 | The path was stony ; that was why she let him hold on to her , and for no other reason . |
| 21 | That 's why you 're getting a lift and for no other reason . |
| 22 | The Austrian Empire , the Russian Empire , the French Republic , ‘ poor little Belgium ’ , everybody fought for the privilege of committing social and collective suicide on a spectacular scale , and for no particular reason . |
| 23 | They said hello cheerily as we passed , and for no particular reason other than mindless banter I concluded our exchange with some hopeless attempt at humour , which happily has been blacked from my memory . |
| 24 | A very gallant gentleman at the next table came over and for no particular reason , kissed my hand ! |
| 25 | ‘ I think he 's best avoided , ’ Ellen said in an unexpectedly sober voice , and suddenly , and for no particular reason on a very warm night , we both shivered . |
| 26 | With registered designs , the person creating the design is known as the author but , and for no explicable reason , the person creating a design which is subject to a design right is known as its designer . |