Example sentences of "and [noun] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Williams had soundness and reliability going for them ; the rest of the field was extremely well balanced . |
| 2 | In West Mercia , there have been regular reissues of Force Orders to remind members to be circumspect in their dissertations and essays prepared for part-time diplomas in Management Services or the NEBS qualification which is now an integral part of inspector training . |
| 3 | You spent half and hour looking for lemons and salt . ’ |
| 4 | The Services Development Unit at ACE has as part of its primary mission the development of a centralised database concerning the services and activities provided for , and of particular interest to older people , their relatives and carers . |
| 5 | The only way was to persuade one of the Met Officers to take over the observations and chart plotting for the day , and then we would all be back for the night duty . |
| 6 | Yet the capabilities of mature mammals and birds to fend for themselves , to care for their offspring , and to interact with their own and other species , far surpass those of the 12-month-old baby or the anencephalic with whom they are so frequently bracketed . |
| 7 | Institutions and groups compete for power and there is , consequently , a plurality of power centres rather than a concentration of power . |
| 8 | Ten days later Ricky and Perdita left for Argentina . |
| 9 | Bristol piled on fierce pressure and Middlesbrough paid for their lack of enterprise when Bristol equalised after 67 minutes . |
| 10 | Bristol piled on fierce pressure and Middlesbrough paid for their lack of enterprise when City equalised after 67 minutes . |
| 11 | A basic pack with video which covers skills and attitudes required for effective work with families in their homes . |
| 12 | Perhaps these are symptoms of the greater concreteness of Lawrence 's description : he makes his nouns , adjectives , verbs and adverbs work for him without weaving them into an abstract web of relationships . |
| 13 | Wilkes and Cobbett wrote for a society which still shuddered at the memory of the puritans and their censors , the good people appointed by Cromwell to license and to regulate the press . |
| 14 | This month , Tom Gadd and Suzanne Ardley look at striking furnishings and accessories designed for a brighter life |
| 15 | The business seemed to be doing well and all day vans called for items which Joe had listed and William prepared for despatch . |
| 16 | The drinking session that followed stretched until 4.00 am ; the players disproving the theory that time and tide wait for no man . |
| 17 | She looked away and Trent thought for a moment that she would leave it alone , but then she looked back and asked quickly , to get it out , ‘ Did your mother leave him for your father ? ’ |
| 18 | In other societies — for example , the Netherlands — forms of guild organization persisted , and artists worked for the market through the new intermediaries , the dealers . |
| 19 | Malaysia , Thailand , Indonesia and Bolivia account for 70 per cent of world output . |
| 20 | For 20 days spread over 1988 and 1989 he compared spot and futures returns for five-minute periods . |
| 21 | Three years later Dr H. J. Hewitt published his influential book , The organization of war under Edward III , 1338–62 , in which , rather than describe activity of a narrow , military kind , he wrote about the relatively unglamorous background and preparation needed for war at that time and , indeed , ever since . |
| 22 | men who have accepted a system of values by which to live , can not without courting in-efficiency and chaos keep for long a fenced-off portion of their lives where they think and behave according to a contrary set of values . |
| 23 | The din and chaos continued for some time after help arrived from the êchelon of spectators , Charles and Peregrine among them . |
| 24 | Currently concentrating on Sparc-based hardware , Lucid has an agreement with NCR Corp that will see its compiler technology and Energize converted for the Intel 80486 under Unix System V.4 and Santa Cruz Unix : compilers have already been implemented for the IBM Corp Rios chip , and Lucid has its eye on Hewlett-Packard Co 's Precision Architecture RISC . |
| 25 | All in all , these , along with the changes in numbers and size of dendritic spines , are what one might expect if , when the chick pecks the bead and learns the association between the pecking and the bitter taste , there is a synaptic reorganization in IMHV and LPO to code for — or represent — this new association and the resulting change in behaviour — that is , to say ‘ do n't peck ’ instead of ‘ do peck ’ when the chick sees the bead a second time . |
| 26 | While you should try to keep most of the hinge and latch painted for appearances sake ( unless it is brass or galvanised ) , you must accept that the main working parts will rust ; so be prepared to apply regular coatings of oil or WD40 to protect them . |
| 27 | The recent appearance of low-price Rickenbacker copies from Encore and Tanglewood calls for a bit of discussion on the replica guitar business in general . |
| 28 | Lining is a must except for sheers — and interlining recommended for insulating — both keeping in the heat and keeping out any cold air — cutting down noise and dirt absorption . |
| 29 | Satisfaction and horror jostle for position on his face . |
| 30 | Our new argument for the political virtues of conventionalism uses these distinctions to show why the line this theory draws between cases decided by law and cases calling for judicial legislation strikes the right balance between predictability and flexibility . |