Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can provide special help for the long term unemployed and also for disabled people . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | While one has to admire the contortions into which employers forced themselves to go to prove that their current practice was rational , coherent and best for all concerned , one feels they do protest too much . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Hence , though very durable , jade implements were very costly and partly for this reason , and partly for the beauty and scarcity of the material itself , they remained symbols of prestige after the introduction of metals . |
| 6 | We need we need four like that four quarters that 's good and then for each one of those when we 've cut it in two it would give us two of the new pieces so every one of those four would give us two new pieces how many would we have altogether then ? |
| 7 | The Minister has said that his Department has contacted the local authorities , but when will the Government accept that the local authorities have the strategy and the enabling powers to make provision for housing , especially for the homeless and perhaps for some of the 40,000 personnel who will be leaving the armed forces in the near future ? |
| 8 | Moisture masks are non-drying and best for dry and sensitive skins . |
| 9 | A Compact , though , provides great potential for making the curriculum more realistic and relevant and hence for improving student motivation . |
| 10 | 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 . |