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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Provision needed to be made for dowager widows , and for younger sons and for daughters , and perhaps for other persons . |
| 5 | This was a style suitable for churches and perhaps for domestic buildings , but not for public offices . |
| 6 | Farming families worked hard and long for scanty remuneration , and it is difficult indeed to see them as beneficiaries of the government 's development policy . |
| 7 | Another important group , the retired , can place significant demands on local facilities and services , but in housing terms they form a heterogeneous group since some have capital from the sale of housing in more expensive locations while others are in competition for cheaper housing , and especially for rural local authority houses and sheltered accommodation ( Law and Warnes 1976 ; Phillips and Williams 1982a ) . |
| 8 | In consequence , Secretaries of State tended to look elsewhere within the Ministry and elsewhere for impartial advice . |
| 9 | Inferring the function of what is said by considering its form and context is an ability which is essential for the creation and reception of coherent discourse and thus for successful communication . |
| 10 | ( Of course , if the power is evil it is quite likely to be wielded by a female and just for good measure she is likely to be ugly . ) |
| 11 | They included NorandaKerr Ltd ( especially in North Wales and north-west and north-east Scotland ) , Phelps-Dodge Corporation NL ( in North Wales and Scotland-especially for porphyry-style targets ) , Acmin Explorations ( UK ) Ltd ( in the Pennine orefields ) , Swiss Aluminium Mining UK Ltd and the British Steel Corporation ( in the Northern Pennine orefield ) . |
| 12 | At first , the Lord Chief Justice 's pronouncements appeared to have had the desired effect , as the average length of prison sentences imposed on males aged 17 and above for indictable offences fell in both the magistrates ' court and the Crown Court in the months following the cases of R. v. |
| 13 | Moisture masks are non-drying and best for dry and sensitive skins . |
| 14 | Her parents lived in another part of the country and her husband was in the army and away for long periods of time . |
| 15 | This was done industry by industry at SIC Class level and separately for large and small companies . |
| 16 | This was done industry by industry [ at SIC Class level ] and separately for large and small companies . |
| 17 | The plate can be moved from side to side and backwards for tight corners . |
| 18 | Incidentally , and irrelevantly for present purposes , that reasoning has led to the well-established conclusion that a child en ventre sa mère at a testator 's death but later born alive may rank as a life in being for the purposes of the rule against perpetuities , which is a rule of public policy under English law : see Long v. Blackhall ( 1797 ) 7 Durn. & E. 100 . |
| 19 | In this section we briefly discuss the forms of data transfer instruction commonly found on word-oriented computers : first for whole-word transfers , then for the larger subdivisions of the word ( such as the half-word ) , and finally for multiple-word transfers . |
| 20 | Billiton Minerals UK Ltd were active both onshore for hardrock and alluvial tin prospects in the St Austell area , and offshore for alluvial deposits associated with buried river channels . |
| 21 | The heavy hand of a resident father would probably not have stopped him being suspended from school three times , once for smoking , once for swearing and once for self-confessed vandalism ( breaking a rival basketball team 's scoreboard because they played dirty , for which he took a part-time job to pay for the damage ) . |
| 22 | RAP30 has been reported to contain a sequence homologous to region 1b and 2 of σ factors of bacteria , which has been shown to be a binding site for the core component of E.coli RNA polymerase and possibly for mammalian RNA polymerase II ( 19,40 ) . |
| 23 | Flying back and forth for Swift Investments . |
| 24 | The river , serene and still for long dreamy stretches , bursts with occasional scenes of activity where bunches of noisy children play in the shallows alongside gleaming water buffalo , or groups of chattering women pound the weekly wash . |
| 25 | So if you are a smoker , it 's very important you give up , at least while you are pregnant , and preferably for good . |
| 26 | It 's a get-together for some of our clients and their wives , and hopefully for prospective customers , too . |
| 27 | But I said oh that 's nice in n it and it was , a what was it jumper and like for Christmassy like a silver |
| 28 | That parishes seek to co-operate closely with local schools , partly for the recruitment of children for music in church and partly for mutual support in the music education of children ( 605 , 615–618 ) . |
| 29 | Reports from Tehran on 22 September told of an attack that day on the city 's Mehrabad airport , which , like a number of others around the world , was used partly for civil and partly for military purposes . |
| 30 | Like the Royal Society from its foundation in the 1660s , the BAAS was kept off questions touching party politics or religion , partly in the belief ( or hope ) that real science could and should be value-free , and partly for pragmatic reasons — an unwillingness to alienate any group . |