Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] for a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He returned to England in 1844 but was unemployed except for a brief tenure of the post of governor of the new prison in Birmingham in 1849–51 , before dismissal . |
| 2 | The benches are empty except for a solitary figure sitting huddled in a mackintosh , watching with fierce concentration . |
| 3 | The doors to the great white stone building that led to the palatial rotunda were open , the lobby empty except for a single security guard sitting and reading behind the circular information desk . |
| 4 | The field was empty except for a few ewes with young lambs . |
| 5 | The secularisation of Holy Week and Easter now seems complete except for a faithful remnant of practising Christians — about 10 per cent of the population on most calculations . |
| 6 | David Boole of Jaguar Cars describes the medium-term as healthier than for a long time' . ’ |
| 7 | But the natives were friendly except for a few incidents in Skye . |
| 8 | Where the ground is frozen for most of the year , soils that contain water remain solid except for a brief spell each summer , when they thaw to a depth that varies with latitude and local conditions . |
| 9 | You can work full-time , part-time or for a few hours in the evenings . |
| 10 | All was dark except for a tiny glimmer of red light . |
| 11 | Everything was dark except for a single patch where the moon shone through the skylight on to the wall . |
| 12 | This integrating combination has a long time-constant and for a momentary pulse output from IC2 does not allow the voltage across capacitor C5 to rise much above the ground . |
| 13 | His skin was like oiled silk , healthily tanned and smooth except for a light sprinkling of curly black hair . |
| 14 | The landlord , a thin ashpole of a man , completely bald except for a stray lock of hair which constantly drooped over his eyes , wiped his greasy hands on a dirty apron , served them and scurried off . |
| 15 | Colleagues , the Parliament of the European Community and of the United Kingdom have seriously considered the consequences of the spillage of eighty five thousand tons of oil from oil tanker which ran aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands on the fifth of January nineteen ninety three and for a considerable time socialists of the European Parliament have been complaining incessantly for greater safety at sea . |
| 16 | In addition , even though a fifth of total income is derived from occupational pensions , the vast majority of pensioners rely on social security either for all or for a significant proportion of their income : two-thirds of them receive 80 per cent or more of their income from this source . |
| 17 | Once the sailor has ‘ climbed the rigging ’ , which is usually an energetic process , he ‘ looks out ’ , remaining stationary except for a slight sway as the boat sails out of harbour . |
| 18 | On other vases , especially on his favourite form , an egg-shaped amphora with narrow neck , like those used for prize oil at the Panathenaic games , he reaches the logical conclusion of this trend : a vase totally black except for a single figure on each side , without even a ground-line ( fig. 106 ) ; the figure is the whole decoration . |
| 19 | He opened the door to a large room completely bare except for a vast trestle-table that filled it from wall to wall . |
| 20 | The room was bare except for a ping-pong table on folding trestle legs . |
| 21 | He was nude except for a drooping condom . |
| 22 | His was the quiet type of a Christ-lived life , and his influence was marked for good and for a strong quality of wisdom which left its mark upon many whom he came in contact with from day to day . |
| 23 | For half of Oxfordshire teachers , outsiders were not very involved and for a further quarter not involved at all . |
| 24 | There had been bad and costly muddles in the early days of the war ; agriculture had been disrupted by the number of peasants called to the colours , and eventually some had had to be returned to the fields ; the great Renault motor works was closed down , all but for a small shop making stretchers — motor vehicles evidently being considered a luxury with little application to the war effort . |
| 25 | Her earlier fears about what terrors lay in store returned , all the more powerful because for a few minutes she had forgotten them . |
| 26 | He looked puzzled and for a better description . |
| 27 | A partnership can , I believe , be temporary and for a fixed purpose . |
| 28 | in a pub he was , got drunk and for a twenty pound bet shaved off all his hair . |
| 29 | It happened almost overnight and for a long time nobody even heard of him . ’ |
| 30 | This topic is too recent for there to be many guidelines available but for a particular topic the designer can assume that he need not be inhibited in allowing his imagination to run to many kinds of novel solutions . |