Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's all it comes by is human learning , and you 're neglecting that , you say , that is you are n't developing a learning society and you 're going to pay for this and pay for this and pay for this , you see , and your children will pay for it , your grandchildren will pay for it , you see , just what you 're doing to the educational system , what you 're doing to the universities and you 're so far behind from what erm most other modern countries are . |
| 2 | That 's all it comes by is human learning , and you 're neglecting that , you say , that is you are n't developing a learning society and you 're going to pay for this and pay for this and pay for this , you see , and your children will pay for it , your grandchildren will pay for it , you see , just what you 're doing to the educational system , what you 're doing to the universities and you 're so far behind from what erm most other modern countries are . |
| 3 | It was not intended to give this impression , and we take this opportunity to make that clear and to apologize for any embarrassment caused . |
| 4 | Left empty and decaying for some years , the buildings were at last put up for sale . |
| 5 | Farther round the arc was the Soviet incursion into Afghanistan , which began in 1979 and lasted for most of 10 years , despite resistance by the Mujahedin . |
| 6 | They are competitively priced children 's books which are both entertaining and instructive and cater for all age groups . |
| 7 | And this was not the only occasion on which he protested , in the 1920s and 1930s , at having the precepts that were formulated to meet the special conditions of 1914 taken as absolute and binding for all poetic situations at all times . |
| 8 | It had been the first definite sign that something was wrong ; though she had been moody and withdrawn for some weeks before , he had thought this a normal reaction to her baby 's death . |
| 9 | After that , his senses remained strained and alert for several hundred paces , but there was no more hint of a shadow , and as he moved away from the busier streets he became increasingly confident that he was alone . |
| 10 | Although the famous gallery owner is thinking of retiring and has for some time been searching for an institution to take on his private collection , the title of the event ‘ TransForm ’ is not a veiled reference to his forthcoming conversion from art dealer to museum collector . |
| 11 | Near by , a policeman , urgently crouched , all cocked and bunched for this urgent encounter or transaction . |
| 12 | ‘ I was very upset and felt for those players who played , ’ Durie said . |
| 13 | The microtitre plates were washed thoroughly with PBS-Tween and incubated for another 30 minutes with alkaline-phospatase ( ALP ) conjungated rabbit anti-human γ chain or rabbit anti human α chain antisera ( Dako , Glostrup , Denmark ) diluted 1:400 in PBS-Tween . |
| 14 | Its tip can stay alive and grow for many days , thereby increasing its chances of meeting a host . |
| 15 | The observer was asked to move through the wood of his choice at a fixed speed , dividing the time spent into units of 10 minutes each and recording for each 10-minute period all the birds seen or heard , normally within a band of 50 yards ( 46 metres ) from the observer . |
| 16 | Do you want er , me to get the coat out and that and pay for that separate or ? |
| 17 | There does seem to be general agreement amongst teachers that the school curriculum should be broad and balanced for all pupils . |
| 18 | The event came to a close with a disco which rounded off an absolutely brilliant day that was a very moving and thought-provoking for all concerned . |
| 19 | The players are not frightened to work hard and graft for each other , and the know-how of people like Dennis Wise , Andy Townsend and Mal Donaghy is complemented by the pace of younger players like Eddie Newton . |
| 20 | ‘ He could get stopped and searched for some quite other reason . |
| 21 | He was Charles Longuet Higgins , who was born in Turvey Abbey in 1806 and lived for most of his life in the family home . |
| 22 | They proposed the withdrawal of ships carrying nuclear arms from the Mediterranean and called for all countries to abstain from deploying such weapons in the territories of non-nuclear Mediterranean countries . |
| 23 | The rash may be barely visible , and may only be present for a few days , or it may be widespread and obvious and persist for many weeks . |
| 24 | Although it was dark and the road twisted away in both directions , the undertaker had stood still and listened for several seconds before venturing up the steps to the front door . |
| 25 | In this article , by LTP we mean synaptic potentiation , which is both NMDA receptor-dependent and lasts for more than an hour . |
| 26 | The highest of these peaks , Wagagai ( 14,177ft/4321m ) , is in Ugandan territory and officially out of bounds , but our map showed the international boundary passing through the summit of the second highest peak ( just 20 metres lower than Wagagai ) , called Lower Elgon , so we decided to stay legal and aim for that instead . |
| 27 | She found she could get the attention and praise she wanted only by achieving , being good and caring for that pretty little monster she so resented . |
| 28 | Only then did the American boy notice his extraordinarily long curling fingernails , the mark of a high-ranking courtier that would have made a Western-style handshake awkward and discomfiting for both parties . |
| 29 | ( The story of how we acquired 800 uniform boxes is too long and exhausting for this report , nut Bill Axford is the hero of that one … ) . |
| 30 | She had gone to the doctor after her opening 77 and hoped for some kind of medication which would have allowed her to carry on , but all the medical man would prescribe was a three-day rest . |