Example sentences of "and for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Things are rarely that simple — and for a van Gogh , never . |
| 2 | The Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum is closed for a year for repairs and for a reorganisation of the present installations . |
| 3 | The Sergeant waited for the drum-roll to die away , and for a drunk , shouting incoherently , to be dragged through a grim looking door . |
| 4 | The amendment by an expatriate Scot , George Cunningham ( Labour , Islington ) , by ensuring that a 40 per cent vote of the electorate ( not simply of those voting ) would have to be achieved for a devolution bill to go through and for a repeal order not to be tabled , made devolution , at least for Wales , virtually an impossibility . |
| 5 | The adversarial system of criminal justice in Britain and the USA , together with less emphasis on community policing , may be partly responsible for the alienation of doctors and police and for a lowering of standards . |
| 6 | Both Australia and New Zealand suggest the need for a cross-fertilisation of resources and for a measure of compromise between those of differing views . |
| 7 | On June 18 , he collapsed and died in the arms of a fellow customer in one of the Stroud pubs where he went for company to chat quietly about cricket ( never in an egotistical way ) and for a drink to help him forget . |
| 8 | The HDI was widely criticized for its complexity and for a system of weighting data which gave the United States the lowest HDI of any developed country ( owing to its high illiteracy rate ) . |
| 9 | I want to go back the year , nineteen hundred , and let's hear the causes of death , because when many infectives caused by viruses and the bacteria , the life expectancy for a male was fifty , and for a women was fifty four . |
| 10 | With only a slight quickening of their pace , Roderick Random , the eponymous hero of Smollett 's 1739 novel , and his companion caught up with the carrier wagon and for a shilling were taken to the next inn on their journey from Newcastle to London . |
| 11 | The interests and power of the railway companies put paid to Holbrecht 's ideas for a Ringstrasse and for a north-south through boulevard . |
| 12 | Write in a wider variety of forms , eg notes , personal letters , formal letters , instructions , essays , newspaper articles , reviews , biographies , stories , poems , playscripts , radio and TV scripts , for a wider range of purposes , eg to plan , to formulate hypotheses , to inform , to explain , to compare and contrast , to persuade , to entertain , to express attitudes or emotions , to shape experience imaginatively , and for a range of audiences . |
| 13 | This course is unique in providing vocational training suitable for specialist physical education posts in schools and for a range of professional roles in the leisure industry . |
| 14 | She now does less tax work and more audit , and for a range of clients , from a group of Alexander relaxation teachers , for example , up to a £2m turnover company . |
| 15 | J.M. Sinclair put forward at Coloma College ( and elsewhere in print ) an analogy between preparation for teaching and for a range of medical and para medical employment . |
| 16 | Research on HDN in foals is still therefore wide open , and for a change there is the prospect of animals benefiting from advances made in the study of human medicine . |
| 17 | There is a need for a more vigorous competition policy both in manufacturing industry and services but especially with respect to public sector monopolies , and for a change in fiscal policy to remove the artificial incentives which companies now have to retain earnings . |
| 18 | Rory had been invited along too , as he usually was , and for a change had accepted . |
| 19 | Students at Tirana 's Enver Hoxha University began boycotting classes on Feb. 6 to press demands for improvements to their accommodation , for an end to compulsory study of Marxist theory and the history of the ruling Party of Labour ( PLA ) , and for a change in the university 's name . |
| 20 | Using the tax function introduced above , the multiplier for a change in government expenditure becomes and for a change in autonomous taxation it is |
| 21 | The alarmed settlers immediately formed themselves into a blustering militia , and Lafayette F. Grover , Governor of Oregon , successfully petitioned the Secretary of the Interior to re-examine the situation , declaring : ‘ Joseph 's band do not desire Wallowa Valley for a reservation and for a home . |
| 22 | The chairman of the committee was Representative Jim Jones of Oklahoma , a conservative Democrat who agreed with the main thrust of Reagan 's economic policy — the need for budget cuts and for a reduction in taxation . |
| 23 | Marian knew he meant the rascals , and for a day or two she wondered if he were right , for the smoke trails disappeared . |
| 24 | For 500 years , until Bigorre was finally absorbed into the kingdom of France in 1607 , it was the capital of the county of that name , and for a part of that time was in theory an English town , being recaptured by a French army , after two sieges , early in the fifteenth century . |
| 25 | — producing , for example , an increase in income support for a couple with two children aged 10 and 12 from £104.55 to £111.85 , and for a pensioner couple aged under 75 from £83.15 to £88.95 . |
| 26 | Some members of this family may possess dual molecular recognition properties — for the ligand bound by the protein and for a receptor cell to which the ligand is transported . |
| 27 | And for a couple of hours they had talked . |
| 28 | Terry and I were worst hit and for a couple of days I was left off the chain so that I could use the toilet whenever I needed . |
| 29 | Soon , though , Horsewoman Clair Dalton will be establishing a regular service around the town and for a couple of pounds , you 'll be able to step back in time and view the famous architecture in the same way that the Spa Towns Regency Founders did . |
| 30 | Nynex Corp is in negotiations with Hitrail , the consortium of 11 European railway operators , to create a joint venture company and for a contract to upgrade its X25 packet-switched data network , according to a source close to the negotiations . |