Example sentences of "and for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 They represent a potentially very important method of providing good rented or cheap owner-occupier housing in rural areas since they are an established medium for obtaining finance and for managing schemes .
2 There are too many concepts and procedures to learn , and for simpler applications , if probably wo n't be worth the effort .
3 Stuff toy mice made out of rabbit fur , for kittens and for elderly cats in need of exercise .
4 There is no independently characterisable subclass of dogs for which being a pet is a necessary or canonical trait ( lap-dogs do not count , because they can not be distinguished without invoking the characteristic of pet-hood ) ; nor are there distinguishable sub-types of pet which are canonically or necessarily dogs ( except , of course , lap-dogs , which do not count here , either , and for parallel reasons ) .
5 The four-part oboe band played both for outdoor ceremonies and for indoor entertainments .
6 Both the Britons ' and the IFL literature contained lurid tales of alleged Jewish responsibility for crime , the white slave traffic , for casualties in the First World War , for corrupting public life and for financial malpractices and banking irregularity .
7 They did this by ‘ producing a set of mathematical models which linked variables ( demand , service levels , unit costs and infrastructure ) in such a way that , as changes were made in one or more of these variables , the estimated consequences for the others , and for financial results could be evaluated ’ ( Department of Transport , 1983 , p.63 ) .
8 And for eight hours she devoted herself to sufferers and staff — smiling , chatting and listening .
9 Her exhausted captain had had to hand over the wheel to Arthur and for eight days he was scarcely relieved .
10 The trips , made at public expense , included those made for political — Republican party — purposes and for personal reasons including dental appointments and skiing trips .
11 Conscientious but ‘ experimental ’ introduction of Hungarian-style measures , with isolated centres of the economy turned into laboratories of reform ; a limited legalisation of the ‘ second economy ’ on the East European pattern , and greater support for the consumer and for private farmers .
12 There would still be a place for amateurs , for salaried professionals and for private professionals , all of them supported in varying degrees by government funds .
13 Since 1900 , Britain has been governed by outright , formal coalitions of two or more parties for 7 years between 1915 and 1922 , for 1 year from 1931 to 1932 , and for 5 years from 1940 to 1945 .
14 A major cause of such segregation is competition for land and for preferred forms of housing .
15 He also left money for prisoners in the city 's prisons and the Gate House at Westminster and for poor householders in his ward and in two London parishes — St Magnus and St Christopher le Stocks , where he was then living — and in the parishes of Dorney and Burnham in Buckinghamshire and Sittingbourne in Kent , where he owned property .
16 ( However , this does happen occasionally and the relocation companies report that their services have been used for senior new appointments and for technical specialists . )
17 For these acts and for occasional bouts of stone-throwing , the UMWA has been fined more than $30 million by the courts .
18 And for that things that erm Tupperware that Totem Pails , and you stack up the pails .
19 But the rotational periods are correspondingly long and for all states are quite simply related to the rotational constants of the molecules .
20 Not least , the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1992 which require not only that any organisation employing more than four people must record the results of a health and safety risk assessment and for all employers to implement measures needed to minimise or eliminate hazards identified in their own assessments , but that ( other than sole traders and partnerships ) a ‘ competent person ’ — defined as someone with ‘ sufficient training and experience and knowledge or other qualities ’ — is appointed to help implement compliance with all H&S legislation .
21 Tickets for performances at the Oxford Union and for all concerts may also be obtained from Tickets in Oxford , Information Centre , St Aldate 's , Oxford .
22 In table VII we compared the observed numbers of cases with those expected for lymphoid leukaemia and non-Hodgkin lymphomas , for all other cancers , and for all cancers combined separately for 1963–83 and 1984–90 .
23 Policy discussions at ministerial level appeared to focus mainly on the hoary old issues of which agency should take lead responsibility , ’ but finally , in 1989 , the government took a decision which was considered unthinkable only a year earlier , that is , that local authority social services departments should be given lead responsibility for community care and for all services including mental health , but with some additional controls added in the latter case , the single most controversial of Griffiths ' proposals .
24 And one by one , as they arrived , he organized competitions and prizes : for girls with names beginning with C , and for all cooks , or all housekeepers , and all stablehands under 16 years , and so on — prizes that each was bound to win , being unique to the class .
25 And for all pupils , a ‘ core curriculum ’ has been introduced , ensuring that all children can have a thorough grounding in the most important subjects .
26 For all tastes and for all occasions
27 You may only have seen the property once , and for all sorts of emotive reasons , may have fallen in love with the place .
28 Less than a month later , at the beginning of March 1757 , Miller wrote a letter , now held by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania , reporting that promised specimens of Crataegus had not arrived and could not be included in the current edition of the Dictionary ; he repeated his request for Gale asplenii-folio and for all sorts of lilies and Andromeda .
29 You need one for simple jobs like driving picture pins , and for all sorts of other tasks like nailing down loose floorboards and mending fences , not to mention any woodwork you may be assembling .
30 And for all rumours of me read obituary
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