Example sentences of "and for [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | And for some of the young , a dizzyingly exciting feeling , deep in stomach-pit , that something terrible was about to come about , something wonderful and dreadful . |
| 32 | Poor harvests increased food prices to pressure budgets barely adequate at most times , while seriously deficient harvests brought not just high prices but real scarcity , and for some of the poor absolute want . |
| 33 | For them and for some of the new workers of the industrial revolution in the Midlands and North , the acts brought an era of " secret unionism " . |
| 34 | A king depended on the administrative structure of the civitas for tax revenue and for some of the manpower required for his armies . |
| 35 | A People 's Vigilance Committee was created in 1940 to fight against the " imperialist war " and for some of the social measures originally incorporated in the Unity Manifesto . |
| 36 | When the women were made redundant in 1981 , their weekly take-home pay averaged £55 and for half of the women it was the only wage in the household . |
| 37 | This has been blamed , for example , for the extensive carbonates of the late Devonian and early Carboniferous , and for those of the Cretaceous . |
| 38 | In the meantime , the Muslim community was subject to complex stresses which were to prove significant both for the events of the immediately succeeding centuries in Mesopotamia and Persia and for those of the 1980s . |
| 39 | For the living patients and for those in the Crohn 's disease group who died after 1980 the morbid risks were based on age specific prevalences obtained by concurrent epidemiological studies . |
| 40 | Going into manufacturing for himself , therefore , was something that came fairly easy to him and for most of the 1950s he built up a substantial furniture business . |
| 41 | Buoyed by this , the 'Mere forwards rallied and for most of the remainder of the half they at least managed to hold their own ball in the scrum . |
| 42 | I watched both them and Mathews closely throughout both days while he was giving evidence , and for most of the time all three of the judges had their heads and eyes down on the notes they were keeping . ’ |
| 43 | So in the case of all who die intestate , and for most of the rather small number who make a will , the outcome of inheritance will be that relatives are beneficiaries , and the legal procedures which ensure this codify a set of obligations to give support which discriminates between close and more distant kin . |
| 44 | Francis Bacon who put money into an unsuccessful company to colonize Newfoundland wrote in his essay On Plantations ( the word used then and for most of the seventeenth century for what would later be called colonies ) ‘ You must make account to lose almost twenty years profit , and expect your recompense in the end . ’ |
| 45 | I was one of those asked to provide an opinion or two for the Murray investigations , and must give them credit for thoroughness of their enquiries and for most of the conclusions they reached . |
| 46 | Fewer than eighty purveyors of museum supplies and services took booths , and for most of the time the vendors largely from Canada and the northeastern U.S. had the Hilton basement entirely to themselves . |
| 47 | He was called to the bar in 1843 and for most of the rest of his life he practised as a conveyancer . |
| 48 | When operating at low speed the freewheeling time of the phase currents is short compared to the total excitation time and for most of the cycle the phase current is carried by the switching transistors . |
| 49 | Little enough daylight was left by the time Pedro came skulking back , and for most of the evening she had sat , talking to him , stroking the soft rug of his ear between tense fingers , and waiting for the fit to come again . |
| 50 | They travelled all that day without a break , and for most of the time the sun beat down on them with fiery intensity . |
| 51 | This means that the fundamental unit of analysis , both for this study and for most of the other studies reported in this thesis , is the junction . |
| 52 | The Regno consisted in the twelfth century ( and for most of the thirteenth ) of two parts : the island of Sicily and the southern half of the Italian peninsular , the mainland . |
| 53 | She mutinied on and off against him all that morning , and for most of the afternoon . |