Example sentences of "and [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a rugged but skilful wing-half , first for Oxford City where he had his roots , and latterly for Corinthian Casuals , a club embodying the Corinthian spirit he did so much to preserve . |
| 2 | Hitchcock 's fondness for artifice , and latterly for extended European holidays combined with location filming , met with a setback in Torn Curtain ( 1966 ) , a spy story that was meant to comment on the Burgess and Maclean scandal of the early 1950s , but went wrong in scripting and casting . |
| 3 | Hammond had a brush with the Commonwealth 's accounts committee in 1651 , but protested that he had accounted fully and properly for all the sums which he had received in all the three armies in which he had served ; he pointed out that his account from July 1649 on was with the army in Scotland , where by this time George Monck ( later first Duke of Albemarle , q.v. ) had succeeded him as lieutenant-general of the ordnance . |
| 4 | We 've been retrying to get recognition nationally and locally for fifteen years . |
| 5 | This worked well for those in the A stream but not so well for those in the B stream , and badly for those in the C stream , who got discouraged . |
| 6 | James Joyce is a pre-eminently Class 2 novelist , and so for comparative purposes , Burgess offers us ( tongue-in-cheek ) a translation into Class 1 language of the opening of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man . |
| 7 | And so for that time we live now , both of us , and we are perfectly happy , and the waiting is not weary , but good and happy for us both . |
| 8 | The Ovation 1992-H Collectors series will only ever materialise once , and so for that matter will this competition to win one . |
| 9 | I 'm grateful , that 's for today , erm my Lord it may sound slightly more erm contentious , but I 'd also ask for certificate for counsel for the thirteenth of August hearing , may I say the reason for that , it 's a matter that has n't come before you , you wo n't know about , it 's this , this reason , because at that period it was n't just the application under twenty eighty or twenty eight , four for delay there was another application er , which was unsuccessful which has n't been proceed today , but cost were also disallowed with more serious reason , I submit that said showed er negligent or that improper conduct , there was a substantial attack mounted , and I can use no other words fairly describe it on the professional conduct of and for that reason my Lord er both cos the seriousness of the allegations , but of course also because of the potential conflict that they acted for themselves and it would of been in situation for us solicitor hence to turn up , er they instructed counsel and my self , and so for that double reason in my believe we should be entitled to at , at first stage , ordinarily I would n't of had a very good run for argument but I , it 's my suspicion my clue recollection , be backed up by those behind me , and indeed by the documents that a substantial attack was mounted and it was in , I have to say in full flight terms , and much hence could n't be said to be unreasonable to deem if necessarily , unusually to send counsel in front of a taxing master , well I wo n't say any more on the point , but that is my suspicion |
| 10 | I find it difficult to understand how they are going to carry on experimental work at other depots that are n't really equipped to carry out experimental work , and so for that reason , I mean , there 's a great deal of concern that these cuts are n't rather more cosmetic that they 've been made out to be . |
| 11 | And so for each one of them you might 've started by , having got all this , what you could do then is write for each individual element , a tank base , a tank wall a bedroom or a bathroom , you can produce , I would suggest , a little bar chart which might look like that , for one unit . |
| 12 | And so for this reason , cash quickly became lacking , [ and ] the gold coin was debased . ’ |
| 13 | Within boxes , the forms were not kept in order , and so for this reason the search was carried out by inspecting the thesis titles , as well as by searching for individual ‘ D ’ numbers ( which were recorded in the Rolfe and Will lists ) . |
| 14 | And so for forty long weary years they wander around as nomads in a wilderness ! |
| 15 | And so for these characters it is . |
| 16 | And so for some lasting seconds |
| 17 | To make matters worse it was generally believed that the spirit of the child would remain in the body of the mother , and so for three days after the actual birth the mother had to sit by a wood and bamboo fire and sweat out the child 's spirit so that the child should be completed and the mother freed from what was now an alien spirit inside her . |
| 18 | you have to walk so and so for three miles |
| 19 | Provision needed to be made for dowager widows , and for younger sons and for daughters , and perhaps for other persons . |
| 20 | Given the great variation that exists in wealth , social organisation and culture in Latin America , it is not easy to find a simple , but also heuristic schema for class analysis , and perhaps for that reason the exercise has not been attempted very often . |
| 21 | It is a typical British beef type and perhaps for that reason its numbers at home are now dangerously low : fewer than 450 breeding cows were registered in 1987 when it was for the first time classified as a rare breed , though in the nineteenth century it had been the mainstay of the Scottish beef industry . |
| 22 | An and perhaps for that , I 've never heard that one before ! |
| 23 | The planned towns are the easiest kind of urban landscape to understand , and perhaps for that reason the least interesting to the curious traveller — however attractive they may be to look at . |
| 24 | Her husband had found this fishy , and perhaps for that reason it filled her with intense curiosity . |
| 25 | The letters pronounced separately , D.I.Y. , do not produce a particularly pleasing sound and perhaps for that reason this pronunciation is not popular among the general public , so in the spoken language DIY Shop usually remains the rather cumbersome Do It Yourself Shop . |
| 26 | Indeed the little incident could not have been better judged to give them , as a group , a history and a common recognition of similar social sympathy , of good manners under stress , even of kinship that they alone in the Swan , in Grasmere and perhaps for many miles around , should have shared in Miss D'Arcy 's private grief and dealt with it so skilfully and properly . |
| 27 | This was a style suitable for churches and perhaps for domestic buildings , but not for public offices . |
| 28 | The School Curriculum was distributed to every school in England and Wales , and perhaps for this reason there was a wider span of reactions , some of which seemed more positive . |
| 29 | For most Indian families a marriage is as much a business proposition as a romantic affair of the heart , and perhaps for this reason many of the advertisements sound as if they are marketing objects rather than advertising potential spouses : |
| 30 | The Minister has said that his Department has contacted the local authorities , but when will the Government accept that the local authorities have the strategy and the enabling powers to make provision for housing , especially for the homeless and perhaps for some of the 40,000 personnel who will be leaving the armed forces in the near future ? |