Example sentences of "and [noun] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | DTFS , the Desktop File System , halves the normal 60Mb of disk space ( and 40Mb more for networking ) normally required for feature rich implementations of Unix with the inclusion of transparent data compression and ‘ a revolutionary disk media layout ’ . |
| 2 | Just get some knife and forks out for me . |
| 3 | Life table analysis showed 1 , 2 , and 5 year survival rates of 57% , 31% , and 17% respectively for the whole group . |
| 4 | With the honourable exception of this last case , the homogeneously broadened laser has so far proved a fertile field for instability and chaos only for the theorist . |
| 5 | Below Harry Dodson taking gardenia and stephanotis out for an airing , backed by a hedge of oldfashioned sweet peas |
| 6 | Georgina did n't know what she was letting herself and Ivor in for . |
| 7 | The first , and urgent , question relates to the administrative and financial arrangements that should replace the present system under which four separate bodies produce the clean feed from the two Houses of Parliament ( HOCBUL and the Operator for the Commons Chamber , CCTV for Commons Committees and the BBC and ITN jointly for the Lord ) . |
| 8 | Never wipe Rosie and Jim off for a long time . |
| 9 | We accompanied Pamela Scott-Wexo , a director of Living Memories , on a visit to one of her clients , the Royal Star and Garter Home for disabled servicemen at Richmond , Surrey , to see what her research would turn up . |
| 10 | We try and produce a wealth of information and research both for and about the voluntary sector . |
| 11 | Laverne runs out of bank , hits the flat , cleans out of space and heads straight for the middle of the pond . |
| 12 | The A.838 leaves Durness and heads directly for Kylesku and the distant south along the only route permitted by the harsh and uncompromising terrain . |
| 13 | So are nan and granddad totally for the idea and everything and moving now ? |
| 14 | All about Keswick he had noticed gangs of men building the giant reaches of drystone walls enclosing even the highest fell-land , the better to take advantage of grain prices in the war ; gangs of men working the woods , as charcoal-burners , swill-makers , coppice-workers , plain woodmen ; and , as here , men in the high mines — men spread all over the landscape , bondmen of industry , all living out near their workplace , turf huts and teepees scattered abroad , excluded from society throughout the week of their work and let into its comforts and pleasure only for a brief Saturday night escape . |
| 15 | Dundee 's shipyards built the polar ships Terra Nova and Discovery , used by Shackleton and Scott respectively for their Antarctic voyages . |
| 16 | Companies will have to pay between 5% and 10% more for their property insurance and the extra money , estimated at £300m-£350m , will go into the pool . |
| 17 | The 51 dairy cows and heifers sold to a top price of £1,430 , £1,310 and £1,230 all for calved Friesians . |
| 18 | The export of high quality quarry stones and gravel mainly for road construction in South East England is a trade which is going from strength to strength . |
| 19 | It provides a set of user-accessible threads to accelerate I/O and concurrency particularly for database applications . |
| 20 | As she was led towards the back of it , there was time and light only for her to take in a number of doors on either side , a pervasive smell of must , dark wood panelling , and the central staircase leading to an upper gallery that ran left and right above . |
| 21 | ‘ And thanks again for walking me home . ’ |
| 22 | Thank you again for your efforts keeping all of us far-flung graduates in touch and thanks too for considering my seconding of Anne 's proposal . |
| 23 | But for the most part , later eleventh-century castellans had contrived to convert their homage into little more than a symbol of deference and willingness to perform service ; the implications that their castle and office were enjoyed purely by delegation , that their duty lay in exercising powers and privileges only for the benefit of their lord , were swiftly transmuted into something much less rigid ; exactly what depended on the prince 's powers and proximity . |
| 24 | ‘ Clare 's seeing Sam and Josh off for a day on the speedboat . |
| 25 | It 's £20,000 a man to win that one — and £10,000 just for sitting on the bench ! |
| 26 | The gathering momentum of clericalism under the Carolingians can be seen from the fact that while Alcuin still addressed his learning in many ways to the laity , his pupil Hrabanus Maurus , abbot of Fulda , wrote the De Institutione Clericorum , a compendium of theology and law exclusively for the clergy . |
| 27 | I had taken a package tour to Moscow and Leningrad primarily for the White Nights Festival of the Arts in June — an annual event of Soviet cultural life when the sun hardly sets for a fortnight and old men sit in the public gardens for half the night playing speed-chess . |
| 28 | McDermott has been given the all clear after missing last week 's game at Portsmouth because of an eye injury and Childs out for a month faces a late check on an injured groin . |
| 29 | Cirrhosis was of alcoholic origin in 62% of the cases and the distribution according to the Child-Pugh classification was 23% , 45% , and 32% respectively for classes A , B , and C. A complete history was always obtained ( with the family and the general practitioner if the patient was unable to collaborate ) ; physica examination and laboratory analysis were performed at time zero of the index bleed . |
| 30 | You can eat anything there for lunch and I 'm going to put sandwiches and cake out for tea . |