Example sentences of "and for an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A day of prayer for the spread of the Gospel and for an increase in vocations to the Priesthood . |
| 2 | We now have an outline of the reasons for an upswing in economic activity and for an increase in the rate of surplus-value . |
| 3 | ‘ This weekend I want you to design three grades of house — for a labourer , for a mechanic , and for an overseer . |
| 4 | The young man at the far end of the loom glanced at Maggie , and for an instant their eyes locked . |
| 5 | Pearce restrained him with a hand on his chest , and for an instant it looked as if long-awaited violence might flare up . |
| 6 | Gilbert and Frye watched them leave and for an instant it seemed as if Gilbert wanted to dash out after them again . |
| 7 | But the comm-screen exposes faces in the harshest detail , and for an instant I saw something move at the back of his wet old eyes , like a creature threshing in a net . |
| 8 | I stare at his reflection , because I dare not look at him , and for an instant his face disappears , and the image is of a death 's head grinning at me , a white skull : bones with no flesh , black sockets with no eyes . |
| 9 | The girl flashed one brief look in Hotspur 's direction , and for an instant the glitter of her eyes seemed to him hunted and wild . |
| 10 | And for an instant her expression seemed to alter subtly . |
| 11 | It had to be part of his make-up , and for an instant she wished she could decide what sign he was . |
| 12 | I am dallying on the brink , and for an ex-smoker , the brink is a perilous place to be ; for an ex-smoker of the left , it is more perilous still . |
| 13 | Taken together , these four factors were said to have made for an expansion of participants in pressure politics and for an expansion of demands on government . |
| 14 | Breast feeding lying down is restful , especially at night and for an afternoon nap . |
| 15 | And for an admission like that from an old woman you can buy me another drink , young man … |
| 16 | In the first attacks since the assassination of an army colonel in mid-June , GRAPO claimed responsibility for three bombings in Madrid on Sept. 6 , 1990 , which injured a dozen people , and for an attack on the PSC/PSOE headquarters in Barcelona on Sept. 10 [ see p. 37719 ] . |
| 17 | The red death returned and for an eternity he was nothing at all . |
| 18 | The legal control of odours arising from sewage disposal works merits attention at this point in view of statement of Wills , J. in R. v Parlby that the proper course of action for a local authority complaining of odour nuisance from a sewage disposal works is to obtain leave to file an information in respect of a public nuisance in the name of the Attorney General , ‘ A great public officer , who will not lightly interfere himself , or allow his name to be so used ’ , and for an individual to bring an action for private nuisance . |
| 19 | and for an hour at least she sits and teases |
| 20 | In their notice of appeal the plaintiffs ask for that order to be set aside and , in its place , for an order declaring that they are entitled to object to items in the accounts , whether litigation costs or non-litigation costs , on the ground that the items are unreasonable in amount , and for an order declaring that the first defendant is not entitled to have its litigation costs taxed on an indemnity basis if and to the extent that the court has deprived the first defendant , as mortgagee , of any costs nor in respect of litigation costs already the subject of an order for taxation on some other basis . |
| 21 | On an application by B. to be joined as a party and for an order that the money in court should not be paid out to the solicitors for the interim government : — |
| 22 | The proponents of unitary authorities in the Royal Commission on Local Government in England accepted a need for a wider authority for some services in the metropolitan areas and for an authority that could prepare a strategic plan for conurbations . |
| 23 | Clause 22 and Sch 3 provide for an employee who would otherwise have to be suspended from work for health and safety reasons on maternity grounds , such as pregnancy , recent birth , or where the woman is breast-feeding her child , to be offered suitable alternative work ( if available ) and for an employee who is suspended to be paid during the suspension . |
| 24 | The temptation to ‘ fiddle ’ quotas or interviews is always present , and for an interviewer who is not getting interviews this temptation must at times be great . |
| 25 | Man originated in arid lands , and for an understanding of his societal arrangements we may turn to look at those other terrestrial primates that adapted to a closely similar niche . |
| 26 | For details of the collecting sites , and for an account of barn owl biology , see Appendix . |
| 27 | Finally , on April 10 it was given out that the government had agreed to the opposition 's main demands for the rapid legalization of political parties and for an amnesty for political activists . |
| 28 | But no general account of methodology can reasonably assume that the investigator is a native speaker or has native speaker-like intuitions , and for an outsider at least identification involves finding evidence that a linguistic unit varies in a systematic way between speakers , or between different speech styles of a single speaker . |
| 29 | Those days ( 1956 ) were times of hope for frank discussion and for an end to the long Cold War . |
| 30 | On the eve of the start of the plenum various radical pro-reform groups organized a huge demonstration in the centre of Moscow to call for an end to the communist monopoly , for the removal of conservatives from the CPSU leadership , and for an end to privileges for the nomenklatura ( party functionaries ) . |