Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | People murmured that this would never have happened in Cromwell 's day , albeit secretly for fear of the authorities . |
| 2 | It had even caused Dad to get in touch with her ( although apparently for the past three or four years , he had been collecting cuttings … ) |
| 3 | There were now , albeit only for a minority , alternatives to invisibility . |
| 4 | The effects of the net changes in social class have been modelled explicitly for the university sector in a number of forecasts ( Diamond and Smith , 1982 , 1984 ; Diamond , 1985 ; AUT , 1983 ; Collins , 1983 ) as well as implicitly by the DES ( 1984a , b , 1986b ) .4 These effects have been the most important single factor for which data have been available at a national level albeit only for the university sector . |
| 5 | But Elizabeth Gould 's self-concept hardly refers to her domestic situation at all — except perhaps for the statement ‘ I am hard working ’ . |
| 6 | The Tate collections have long needed to be split : traditional British art in the present building ; modern British ( twentieth-century , or post-1945 ? ) and foreign Schools elsewhere , except perhaps for the jumbo Moore bronzes , which could be recycled for a Thatcher monument , or other suitable purposes . |
| 7 | Being unchanged myself , except perhaps for having grown slightly fatter , and even keener on comfort , I say no reason to change that policy when writing for Harpers & Queen . |
| 8 | But we make common cause in attaching more significance to them than do the theories ( except perhaps for Idealism ) discussed so far . |
| 9 | Except perhaps for Duff Cooper , who was the closest to the King , they were all against the morganatic proposal . |
| 10 | It goes without saying that we should forget hardback novels — except perhaps for libraries — and concentrate on the paperbacks which children and their parents prefer . |
| 11 | Only a fraction of those who know the Oberland are acquainted with the Bernest Mitteland — except perhaps for the capital city , Bern itself , which lies near the centre of it . |
| 12 | Soon she would go and he would forget all about her , except perhaps for those wry little moments when he would remember her childish temper and smile to himself in his superior way . |
| 13 | The Commission expresses its anxiety that the proposed syllabus in the revised music curriculum allows less time than hitherto for choral music . |
| 14 | Policemen also disliked dealing with rape , although obviously for different reasons . |
| 15 | Gibbons et al. ( 1978a ) demonstrated that treatment by social workers using a standardized task-centred approach ( Reid and Epstein 1972 ) was more effective in terms of improving patients ' social problems than traditional care recommended by psychiatrists , although only for female patients ( Gibbons 1979 ) . |
| 16 | Expansion and contraction of awareness may be interdependent , so that ‘ Be aware ’ would not , for example , pronounce waking good but sleeping bad ; when exhaustion is blurring awareness one can go so far as to say ‘ You ought to go to sleep ’ , although only for the sake of waking with refreshed awareness tomorrow . |
| 17 | Broadleaves account for 36 per cent of British woodland , although only for 18 per cent in Scotland , with oak , beech , ash , sycamore and birch the main species . |
| 18 | The City Editor of your sister newspaper showed the greater insight when , in April 1989 , he opined : ‘ It [ the Government ] tries to get us to swallow the ridiculous story that [ water ] privatisation is good for consumers , rather than merely for executives . ’ |
| 19 | Bob and I had all sorts of schemes for us all to meet , including asking you to come to Edinburgh as a halfway house , but we realised that actually that is rather more than halfway for you , and would n't be at all easy . |
| 20 | Thus a suspect defence completed the qualifying programme of six matches without conceding a goal ; they must be doing something right , although not for the first time their debt to Shilton was manifest . |
| 21 | The 128 they made for the fifth wicket actually saw the visitors go on the defensive , although not for long . |
| 22 | Nuno 's ability is a matter of opinion , but the point about the Trantec ads is a matter of fact , although not for the reason your correspondent quotes . |
| 23 | Perhaps for the sake of brevity , although not for precision and clarity , it is not unusual in some catalogues and lists to find some species roses included under the rambler heading , which like R. wichuraiana , have the same sprawling habit and are sufficiently vigorous to get up into trees . |
| 24 | In Germany , municipal waste can be landfilled only after being sorted and processed ; in France , tough new landfill standards have recently been introduced ; in Britain , higher standards for new landfills ( although not for existing ones ) are being introduced under the terms of the 1990 Environmental Protection Act . |
| 25 | These works , although not for sale , have sometimes been known to appear on the market . |
| 26 | She was n't going to let him see that she would jump at it , although not for the reasons he might suppose . |
| 27 | ( The 1990 law — see pp. 37684-85 — and a July 1988 law both allowed for amnesties for politicians who had received illegal campaign funds hitherto , although not for those making such contributions . ) |
| 28 | The license is still held by the local vicar , although not for much longer . |
| 29 | But there are a few well worn examples which have clearly seen action although not for law and order . |
| 30 | Are they designed for my child 's safety , security of mind and social training , rather than just for my convenience ? |