Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the honourable exception of this last case , the homogeneously broadened laser has so far proved a fertile field for instability and chaos only for the theorist . |
| 2 | We accompanied Pamela Scott-Wexo , a director of Living Memories , on a visit to one of her clients , the Royal Star and Garter Home for disabled servicemen at Richmond , Surrey , to see what her research would turn up . |
| 3 | We try and produce a wealth of information and research both for and about the voluntary sector . |
| 4 | So are nan and granddad totally for the idea and everything and moving now ? |
| 5 | All about Keswick he had noticed gangs of men building the giant reaches of drystone walls enclosing even the highest fell-land , the better to take advantage of grain prices in the war ; gangs of men working the woods , as charcoal-burners , swill-makers , coppice-workers , plain woodmen ; and , as here , men in the high mines — men spread all over the landscape , bondmen of industry , all living out near their workplace , turf huts and teepees scattered abroad , excluded from society throughout the week of their work and let into its comforts and pleasure only for a brief Saturday night escape . |
| 6 | The export of high quality quarry stones and gravel mainly for road construction in South East England is a trade which is going from strength to strength . |
| 7 | It provides a set of user-accessible threads to accelerate I/O and concurrency particularly for database applications . |
| 8 | As she was led towards the back of it , there was time and light only for her to take in a number of doors on either side , a pervasive smell of must , dark wood panelling , and the central staircase leading to an upper gallery that ran left and right above . |
| 9 | The gathering momentum of clericalism under the Carolingians can be seen from the fact that while Alcuin still addressed his learning in many ways to the laity , his pupil Hrabanus Maurus , abbot of Fulda , wrote the De Institutione Clericorum , a compendium of theology and law exclusively for the clergy . |
| 10 | Tin U's remarks , made during a visit by a group of SLORC ministers to the northern city of Mandalay , included a warning of action against people " who attack SLORC and create instability and unrest just for the sake of getting power for their party " , including public servants who were " deceiving " the government by engaging in " political intrigue " . |
| 11 | Here was office space and room enough for meetings . |
| 12 | But all he did was to leave the shore and head fast for another part of the lagoon , where the moulds and fungi overhand the water . |
| 13 | I 'm real relieved when I see that , and head straight for the gap . |
| 14 | In short , an attack on all cultural derivations of the censoring , criticizing , evaluating superego and , fundamentally , an assault on its most precious and primitive prohibition , that against incest — the ultimate limit , barrier and restraint both for the individual and the culture . |
| 15 | Wynne-Jones 's knowledge of the woodland realm was far too useful for them simply to abandon him and race furiously for the north . |
| 16 | Waggler and meat best for weights to 30 lbs . |
| 17 | Using television and video effectively for teaching history , must involve far more than the passive watching that most pupils engage in when they watch television at home . |
| 18 | Protect from birds with nets , and water regularly for a large , juicy crop of strawberries . |
| 19 | You do n't think they collected paintings and sculpture simply for their aesthetic qualities , do you ? ’ |
| 20 | Melt the butter in a saucepan , add the nettles and stew gently for about 10 minutes . |
| 21 | I set the stack 's volume so high that it was painful , but with a sound fat and ballsy enough for any rocker . |
| 22 | Evidently I did not see fighters go down that day but I know they did but this was a first realization as if there was somebody up there to kill me and I guess this is the point at which you realize that you are going to kill them before they kill you and all of a sudden we are in combat all our lives and we take a complete change in outlook from everything because up to now everything had been practise and training just for this except we did not have that realization that they are there to kill us , who 's gon na be killed first ? |
| 23 | The inhabitants of the closes and the tenements had headed for the high ground , leaving the trams and turmoil behind for the mist , the heather , and a good brew-up in the but and ben . |
| 24 | This feature , which is thought to have developed from a desire for an apse and altar both for abbot and his monks at the east end , and for the bishop and laity at the west , gave no opportunity for masons and sculptors to decorate a deeply moulded western porch , as was usual in France or England . |
| 25 | On Dec. 4 a combined sitting of both houses of parliament ( Bundesversammlung ) elected René Felber ( hitherto Vice-President ) and Adolf Ogi as President and Vice-President respectively for 1991 . |
| 26 | But leaving days full of activity and sunshine aside for the moment , what makes this hamlet one of our favourites is the atmosphere . |
| 27 | Jessica settled for the food , over which they lingered , rounding it all off with cognac , armagnac and calvados just for the hell of it . |
| 28 | He licked his lips , rubbed his right index finger and thumb together for a couple of seconds and held Prentice 's foot steady with his left hand . |
| 29 | To ensure proportionality and representation even for parties polling a small fraction of the vote across the country , a first count was made on a country-wide basis according to the so-called Hare-Niemeyer system ; afterwards a second constituency-by-constituency count was made . |
| 30 | Add the herbs and heat gently for 3–4min , stirring constantly . |