Example sentences of "of [noun sg] and for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Constitutionally , and in theory , Parliament as a whole was sovereign since the House of Commons was but a part of Parliament and for a bill to become law the assent of Lords , Crown , and Commons were all needed . |
| 2 | He felt her sudden shock of fear and for a moment , almost involuntarily , his hands strengthened on her shoulders . |
| 3 | The system , which is also used for the borrowing and lending of stock and for the pledging of stock as collateral for short-term loans , has proved popular and , by late-1991 , some 70% of all outstanding gilt-edged stock was held in accounts with the CGO . |
| 4 | All are searching for peace of mind and for a while it seem that Ilmorog can offer this . |
| 5 | Most of them seemed to be going in search of tea and for a moment , she hesitated . |
| 6 | But this ca n't be seen — it is n't obvious — a child can become the subject of ridicule and for a sensitive and intelligent child this can be sheer hell . |
| 7 | The long years he spent absorbed in working for the abolition of untouchability and for the reconciliation of Muslim and Hindu , and in innumerable projects of village uplift , testified not only to his genuine goodness but also to the strength of his desire to make India , in the eyes of its alien rulers as well as his own , worthy to be free . |
| 8 | ‘ The Media Commission provides for the broad-basing of ownership and for the breaking up of cartels and monopolies . |
| 9 | I have pointed out to him that his picture echoes the medieval and Renaissance formula for St John on Patmos writing the Book of Revelation and for the evangelists writing the Gospels , itself derived from Greco-Roman author portraits . |
| 10 | Roger Bacon has enjoyed renown , both for an emphasis on firsthand experience of nature and for an advocacy of mathematics that , for the thirteenth century , was remarkably energetic . |
| 11 | Yet people acted as though there was such a thing and this illusion was essential both for the working of capitalism and for the acceptability of the exploitation on which capitalism was based . |
| 12 | The heralds and the disciplinary officers could achieve much ; but it is clear that no factor could ensure a greater respect for the rules of war and for the interests and property of the non-combatant than could firm leadership . |
| 13 | Several senior officers and other experts argued publicly for the abolition of conscription and for the creation of a smaller professional Army . |
| 14 | She accepted a glass of water and for the first time looked round in order to take in the room and the people before her . |
| 15 | I am 59 years of age and for the last fourteen years I have had curly perms . |
| 16 | Detailed clauses ensured that ( i ) the President once elected could not be a member of a political party ; ( ii ) the military were denied seats in the Senate ; ( iii ) members of the Securitate and militia bodies guilty of repression and public officials guilty of abuses were not eligible for election ; ( iv ) candidates for election to the Assembly of Deputies had to be over 21 years of age and for the presidency and Senate over 30 , with no upper age limit ; ( v ) prisoners and the mentally handicapped were not eligible for election or to vote ; ( vi ) independent candidates were eligible to stand for the Senate and Assembly if supported by at least 250 electors and for the presidency if supported by 100,000 electors ; ( vii ) the votes of Romanian citizens abroad via diplomatic missions , consulates or trade agencies would be treated as votes cast in the city of Bucharest ; ( viii ) the financing of political parties from abroad was forbidden ; ( ix ) strict procedures would be applied to check and validate nominations ; ( x ) hours of polling would be from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m . |
| 17 | This meant that Marx had to develop a theory which recognized the intellectual nature of man , but which — and in this he was different from Hegel and Kant , who did not believe that there could ultimately be a material origin to ideas — could account for the peculiar history of mankind and for the growth of ideas and their power in natural terms . |
| 18 | For example , an employee will have a written contract of employment in which clauses will provide for the restraint of trade and for the protection of business secrets . |
| 19 | However , from the point of view of enforcement and for the sake of certainty , the vendor should provide a draft confidentiality agreement to the purchaser as early as possible . |
| 20 | There is a story that Old Dobbin , even after he had been retired from active fire service , would still , by force of habit and for the excitement of it , try to get out of his stable to find his place between the fire-engine shafts whenever the alarm rang . |
| 21 | According to the preamble of the Act , it has become clear that the setting up of a stock exchange was necessary for ‘ enhancing the flow of capital and for the creation of a market in securities ’ , and last but not least for the purpose of protecting the interests of investors . |
| 22 | Thirdly , there are amendments in the name of the Government of the er Noble Earl Lord which are Amendments ten , fifteen and twenty and these provide for greater flexibility in the size of police authorities , again between sixteen and twenty-four members to be determined by the Secretary of State and for the Bill 's existing proposition that er fifty per cent of the members should be er and only fifty per cent of the members , should be from local authorities that er er er er that er of the remainder some should be magistrates and some should be members appointed by the Secretary of State and finally er there is a series of amendments er by the Noble Lord , Lord , Amendment seventeen , eighteen and twenty-two and those provide again with flexibility of size for er police authorities that half of the members should be from local authorities and the other half should be magistrates . |
| 23 | For many years , both in the days of glassfibre and for the first few years of plastic , there was little variety in the shape of boats in general recreational use . |
| 24 | The £1,000 prize is awarded annually and is given in alternate years for a volume of verse and for a volume of prose fiction . |
| 25 | 10 In determining for the purposes of this Act whether a house is unfit for human habitation , regard shall be had to its condition in respect of the following matters — repair , stability , freedom from damp , internal arrangement , natural lighting , ventilation , water supply , drainage and sanitary conveniences , facilities for preparation and cooking of food and for the disposal of waste water ; and the house shall be regarded as unfit for human habitation if , and only if , it is so far defective in one or more of those matters that it is not reasonably suitable for occupation in that condition . |
| 26 | The better view is that the Whigs were for Reform with various degrees of conviction and for a variety of reasons , ranging from that political expediency which saw in it a cause which would get and keep the Tories out , to that of moral principle . |
| 27 | Her poems , from the first volume of 1898 , dwelled on constant themes : Christian mysticism , love of nature , distaste for the ‘ iron fort ’ of materialism and for the male urge to dominate and control , combined in the machinery of war . |
| 28 | In late February , 49 deputies in the National Assembly — mainly but not exclusively drawn from the Social Democratic Populists ( SHP ) and the People 's Labour Party ( HEP ) — published a document calling for a ceasefire in the Kurdish areas of eastern Turkey , for the lifting of the state of emergency and for the bringing to account of those responsible for torture and assassinations . |
| 29 | There will be some reservations erm but erm I 'm pretty certain the erm the English habit of taking a holiday erm will still , you know , be very useful for this time of year and for the whole of the season . |
| 30 | There is a time in the day when the days are long , when the edge of light meets the edge of darkness and for a moment there is nothing . |