Example sentences of "for [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that too , they were alike : both of them had thoughts and feelings that few people gave them credit for or even suspected . |
| 2 | Before independence , Zimbabwe competed for and successfully gathered what had been Zambia 's crown of regional leadership against South AFrica . |
| 3 | Since they are going to bc not just living room but bedroom , dining room , and very often office as well , this means that every inch of space has to be dual-purpose if not multi-functional , and every activity has to be properly catered for and duly compartmented . |
| 4 | Christer Pettersson , who was sentenced for and then acquitted of the murder in February 1986 of the Prime Minister , Olof Palme , was on May 2 , 1990 , awarded 300,000 kronor in damages for the 10 months he had spent in custody . |
| 5 | There are , of course , moments like ‘ Shoot Up Hill ’ that make you wish the NHS paid for and hygienically destroyed ‘ Been there — done that — got it out of my system in the studio ’ bouts of maudlin croaking . |
| 6 | The students came from different races in Burma — a few Burmans , more Karens , a Chin or two , a Kachin and several Anglo-Burmans and one Indian ; so living , learning and worshipping together called for and indeed produced a spirit of racial understanding and unity . |
| 7 | ‘ I shall always feel it a bounden duty on my part ’ , Gould later wrote to Sir William Jardine , ‘ to sing their praises for if well treated they are the most harmless kind of creatures imaginable . ’ |
| 8 | A tribunal in The Hague is slowly resolving each country 's claims against the other , including Tehran 's demand for the return of $12billion in military equipment and spare parts which the regime says were paid for but never delivered . |
| 9 | A plot of the difference between the molar absorption coefficients for right-and left-circularly polarized light against wavelength is called a circular dichroism ( CD ) spectrum . |