Example sentences of "and [vb base] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turn the dough onto a floured surface and knead for a minute before adding the cooked onion , extra oil and chopped olives . |
| 2 | Will my right hon. Friend take no lectures from the Labour party on short-termism , as its short-term policies will last only as long as the election and change for every by-election — |
| 3 | By following the ‘ golden rule ’ of black and white photography — to expose for the shadows and develop for the highlights — negative contrast can be lowered or raised according to the subject 's original tonal contrast . |
| 4 | They emerge and merge , co-operate and co-ordinate for a while , but they have a relatively short active lifetime . |
| 5 | In December 1979 I became one of two lesbians and sixty-five gay men providing a twenty-four-hours-a-day information service and helpline for the gay community . |
| 6 | Once in the field turn left , following the hedge through a gap at the top and make for a stone stile in the top right hand corner . |
| 7 | Whatever the colour scheme , whatever the style , these pretty white duvet covers and pillowcases from Lace Lady will fit in like a dream — and make for a good night 's sleep . |
| 8 | They get the argument out of a tight corner , and make for a less fatalistic scenario . |
| 9 | However , lengthy and complex consultative committees can hinder revision and make for a slowly changing scheme . |
| 10 | Optimistic views , not shared by Freud , that liberation from sexual prohibitions would eliminate neurosis and make for a healthier society have proved to be wrong . |
| 11 | But which of us , locked behind a desk or in a queue at the supermarket check-out , has not had an overwhelming desire to drop everything , run into the street , hail a passing cab and make for the nearest airport to catch a plane to anywhere ? |
| 12 | Delaney should now quickly gather all surviving members of his force and make for the target , with no potentially dangerous searches . |
| 13 | I prepared to collect the rest of my medicines and make for the hospital , when the policeman said to me , ‘ Excuse me , sir . |
| 14 | On no account look out your passport and make for the airport because they 'll catch you in customs and the judge will be cross and tell you you 're a cold-blooded , ruthless and calculating murderess and give you twenty years . |
| 15 | I saw Yet drag himself up , eyes charged with fear , and make for the door to the lower regions . |
| 16 | He watched him move quickly across the alley , and make for the patch of deep shadow under the iron stairs . |
| 17 | She cringed back from him , pressing herself against the stove , wondering if she could edge past and make for the door . |
| 18 | The first is that with another ten years of John Paul 's rule , the silencing of awkward bishops and theologians , the appointment to the episcopate of a most carefully selected team of neo-conservatives , a rather traditionalist form of Catholicism will , in fact , harden and remain for a long time effectively unchangeable . |
| 19 | Wimbledon manager Joe Kinnear knows his club must keep producing youngsters like two-goal Neill Ardley to enable him to sell big name men and compensate for the low income produced by attendances like the pathetic 3,386 for this game . |
| 20 | How dare he speculate on the subject , then write his conclusions on a document I must carry round with me and display for a month ? |
| 21 | 2 Add the mushrooms and spring onions , then stir in the tomato purée and soured cream and simmer for a few minutes . |
| 22 | Bring to the boil and simmer for a few min . |
| 23 | Add the milk , bring to the boil and simmer for a further 10 minutes . |
| 24 | But it does need to be borne in mind that although this form of sudden death can create such instantaneous reactions there are also people who hide and keep quiet and suffer for a long time before finding the opportunity to talk to someone about their feelings or until another trigger sets them grieving . |
| 25 | As EMS currencies are pegged to each other and account for a big part of each other 's baskets , the stability of the trade-weighted values of the French franc and the D-mark compared with the dollar and the yen is no surprise . |
| 26 | In spite of knowledge of precautions , injuries from accidents during sport and leisure activities are common-place and account for a significant proportion of emergency admission to hospitals . |
| 27 | These predisposed combinations are called co-occurrence relations or collocations , and account for a large proportion of English word combinations [ Smadja , 1989 ] . |
| 28 | These are known as ‘ transferred cases ’ and account for the vast majority of appeals . |
| 29 | There is , however , a specific exemption from the general requirement to spread variations from regular cost : ‘ Where a refund that is subject to deduction of tax in accordance with the provisions of the UK Finance Act 1986 , or equivalent legislation , is made to the employer , the enterprise may depart from the requirements of paragraph 80 and account for the surplus or deficiency in the period in which the refund occurs . ’ |
| 30 | These motivate the separate preoccupations of holists and individualists , each with a characteristic type of question , and account for the fact that they are satisfied by different sorts of answers . |