Example sentences of "[noun pl] but for " in BNC.
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| 1 | People buy computers or computer-controlled products not just for offices but for a host of other places such as factories and homes . |
| 2 | The room was twice the size of their back-street Holland Park offices but for a couple of hours all comers were invited to believe that Women 's Word was on the same financial footing as its big competitors . |
| 3 | I carried on with the Debenham players getting small parts almost every year in the pantomimes , they were n't major acting roles but for a nine , ten , eleven year old child they sufficed . |
| 4 | Among them are muons , negatively charged particles similar to electrons in all respects but for the fact that they are unstable and are 207 times heavier ; they are in effect ‘ heavy electrons ’ and can replace electrons in atoms to make ‘ muonic atoms ’ . |
| 5 | This large house , neo-Gothic in all respects but for its Italianate belvedere , stood about a third of the way between West Hampstead station and Finchley Road station , at which point the lines enter portals and dive underground . |
| 6 | The Japanese will be offered greater access to Europe , on condition that they open their domestic markets — not only for cars but for a whole range of industrial and service sectors — to European businessmen . |
| 7 | The principal aim is to create the impression from just looking at the street that it is not , just there for cars but for pedestrians , cyclists and residents too . |
| 8 | If you 're an old age pensioner you can get get concessions but for the average person who who is n't one of those no chance . |
| 9 | Gold was used not only for covering images but for such auxiliary but revealing purposes as providing members of the Holy Family and Saints with haloes , encircling the head in paint , mosaic or sheet metal . |
| 10 | Curiously , one of the first applications of the JPEG standard has been not for still images but for motion video . |
| 11 | True , the issue may be complicated by tax and other considerations but for most choices this very basic analysis helps greatly to clarify the financial arguments on both sides . |
| 12 | An example was John Wilkins ' ‘ real character ’ of 1668 , in which symbols stood not for words but for things . |
| 13 | Again she only lasted three months but for once it was n't her fault . |
| 14 | Many have been homeless , not just for the past six months but for several years and they have been pushed from pillar to post within that area . |
| 15 | If that power was sufficient , the holy spirit , if that power was sufficient to raise Christ from the dead , you not think he 's able to exert that power in your life and in my life to make us live lives that are pleasing to God , of course it is so we do n't do it ourselves , just let me in closing mention one other thing , this relationship we have needs to be maintained , you know for any relationship to grow , one needs to spend time with the other person , I do n't give a lot of credence to the saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder , it does with somebody else , it 's true , it does not make it grow fonder of that person the person is you know who you , you heard this story so often , like particularly like going back during the last war , folk who were separated sometimes for , for , not just for months but for several years , there they were in concentration camps perhaps , in prisoner of war camps , separated for years , they come back home they 've got to get to know each other all over again you see that a relationship on a human level as well as in our relationship with God is dependent on , on association , it 's dependent on companionship , it 's dependent on spending time with the other person and in our relationship with Christ this is achieved by , by prayer , by knowing and understanding God 's word , by having fellowship with other Christians and fellowship with other Christians is not just meeting them and passing the time of day with them , oh that 's fellowship but it 's far more than that is required , there 's the fellowship in worship , we worship together , of course I can worship God at home of course I can do it , so can you do it and we , we should do it , but there 's that re , there 's that need , that requirement as God 's people we come together to worship him in a corporate act , in the sacraments , in , as we mentioned in , in earlier on in taking the bread and the wine and remembering the lords death , there 's a sense in which I can do it by myself |
| 16 | If I started again I would like to have … ( 1 ) a ghost writer , not for my speeches but for my letters and statements : he would be the kind of person who could take the Ministry 's policy and translate it into the kind of words I would use ; ( 2 ) perhaps an economist ; and ( 3 ) a general investigator whose job it would be to brief me so that I could participate intelligently at Cabinet Committees and in Cabinet on subjects outside my own Department . |
| 17 | And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high ; until you find that you are playing not for counters or sixpences but for every penny you have in the world . |
| 18 | A child in a Hindu family is generally an object of love and joy not only for its parents but for every member of the family . |
| 19 | Also , the Minister must take these powers not just for the privatised subsidiaries but for all the bus operators currently providing services in Scotland . |
| 20 | Can my right hon. Friend improve the refreshments provided not only for visitors but for Opposition Members , who seem rather subdued and depressed today ? |
| 21 | As such it is of great interest to the oil companies but for China the discovery of a province as big as the North Sea province or the Alaskan province would be of inestimable importance . |
| 22 | Japanese aid is not given for the benefit of Japanese companies but for promotion of the sustainable development of the recipients in accordance with Japan 's Official Development Assistance Charter , which outlines the philosophy , principles and priorities underlying Japan 's aid . |
| 23 | I adore what other players get from Marshall amps but for some reason they 've never done the same for me , so this one 's going to have to prove itself , the same as the rest . |
| 24 | But he warned : ‘ There are now too many examples of nations whose entire economic , political and judicial structures are being subverted , not necessarily for political motives but for nakedly financial ones . |
| 25 | In September 1329 Edward sent a yeoman of his household , William Montague , to enlist the aid of the pope in the matter of appointments ‘ not only for our own needs but for the advancement of the people of our household and for others ’ . |
| 26 | For the Delphi as with the Victoria Centre it is important that schools recognize their needs but for Roger this is based upon a mutuality of interest which is unimpeded by the operation of specific criteria . |
| 27 | This is grievous news , grievous not only for this and other universities but for the nation ; for it is a grave national misfortune to be governed by those who do not know what a university is and what distinguishes it from other institutions of learning and study , not to mention training . |
| 28 | And of course at this time of the year I would guess the people responsible for writing references get hundreds of requests , not just for universities but for polytechnics and other colleges of , of higher education . |
| 29 | In 1986 the Norwegian government had demanded the return of the water because it suspected that , contrary to the original agreement , it was not being used for peaceful purposes but for the manufacture of plutonium for nuclear weapons [ see p. 36942 ] . |
| 30 | That 's right , Jimi Hendrix — all the rest have Signature series guitars but for some reason probably the greatest has n't . |