Example sentences of "and [adv] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a rugged but skilful wing-half , first for Oxford City where he had his roots , and latterly for Corinthian Casuals , a club embodying the Corinthian spirit he did so much to preserve . |
| 2 | We 've been retrying to get recognition nationally and locally for fifteen years . |
| 3 | James Joyce is a pre-eminently Class 2 novelist , and so for comparative purposes , Burgess offers us ( tongue-in-cheek ) a translation into Class 1 language of the opening of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man . |
| 4 | I find it difficult to understand how they are going to carry on experimental work at other depots that are n't really equipped to carry out experimental work , and so for that reason , I mean , there 's a great deal of concern that these cuts are n't rather more cosmetic that they 've been made out to be . |
| 5 | The Ovation 1992-H Collectors series will only ever materialise once , and so for that matter will this competition to win one . |
| 6 | And so for that time we live now , both of us , and we are perfectly happy , and the waiting is not weary , but good and happy for us both . |
| 7 | And so for this reason , cash quickly became lacking , [ and ] the gold coin was debased . ’ |
| 8 | Within boxes , the forms were not kept in order , and so for this reason the search was carried out by inspecting the thesis titles , as well as by searching for individual ‘ D ’ numbers ( which were recorded in the Rolfe and Will lists ) . |
| 9 | And so for these characters it is . |
| 10 | you have to walk so and so for three miles |
| 11 | To make matters worse it was generally believed that the spirit of the child would remain in the body of the mother , and so for three days after the actual birth the mother had to sit by a wood and bamboo fire and sweat out the child 's spirit so that the child should be completed and the mother freed from what was now an alien spirit inside her . |
| 12 | Provision needed to be made for dowager widows , and for younger sons and for daughters , and perhaps for other persons . |
| 13 | Given the great variation that exists in wealth , social organisation and culture in Latin America , it is not easy to find a simple , but also heuristic schema for class analysis , and perhaps for that reason the exercise has not been attempted very often . |
| 14 | It is a typical British beef type and perhaps for that reason its numbers at home are now dangerously low : fewer than 450 breeding cows were registered in 1987 when it was for the first time classified as a rare breed , though in the nineteenth century it had been the mainstay of the Scottish beef industry . |
| 15 | The planned towns are the easiest kind of urban landscape to understand , and perhaps for that reason the least interesting to the curious traveller — however attractive they may be to look at . |
| 16 | Her husband had found this fishy , and perhaps for that reason it filled her with intense curiosity . |
| 17 | The letters pronounced separately , D.I.Y. , do not produce a particularly pleasing sound and perhaps for that reason this pronunciation is not popular among the general public , so in the spoken language DIY Shop usually remains the rather cumbersome Do It Yourself Shop . |
| 18 | Indeed the little incident could not have been better judged to give them , as a group , a history and a common recognition of similar social sympathy , of good manners under stress , even of kinship that they alone in the Swan , in Grasmere and perhaps for many miles around , should have shared in Miss D'Arcy 's private grief and dealt with it so skilfully and properly . |
| 19 | This was a style suitable for churches and perhaps for domestic buildings , but not for public offices . |
| 20 | The School Curriculum was distributed to every school in England and Wales , and perhaps for this reason there was a wider span of reactions , some of which seemed more positive . |
| 21 | For most Indian families a marriage is as much a business proposition as a romantic affair of the heart , and perhaps for this reason many of the advertisements sound as if they are marketing objects rather than advertising potential spouses : |
| 22 | When a white bar is moved to and fro as shown to the left , the neuron responds only when it is nearly vertical , and only for one direction of movement ( from Hubel 1988 : see Further Reading ) . |
| 23 | The treaty lays down that a single currency will come into being by 1999 , but only if those convergence conditions are met and only for those countries which meet them . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The so-called Helsinki warning , also dismissed as unreliable ( and apparently for better reason ) , had at least saved the lives of those who would otherwise have occupied the vacant seats on Flight 103 . |
| 26 | The gods had drawn them together , and together for 10 years or so they would make music , exploring the world and themselves , unharried by outside pressures , responding only to the more meaningful pressures of life and love . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been looking for it for years , but I 'm not in charge of promotion and the people senior to me in my department are some of the most brilliant minds in England , and elsewhere for that matter . ’ |
| 28 | The interests of the people of Fife and Lothian , and elsewhere for that matter , are surely best served by the development of a modern , integrated transport system which optimises the use of both road and rail . |
| 29 | In consequence , Secretaries of State tended to look elsewhere within the Ministry and elsewhere for impartial advice . |
| 30 | This was apparently reasonably well received by the offenders involved , as even this basic standard of education would be sufficient to improve considerably their potential for employment and thus for higher earnings after their release . |