Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] for the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He picked up the canvas shoulder-bag , which was empty except for the map and a compass . |
| 2 | The place is empty but for the bar and three or four slightly-built lads shooting pool without words . |
| 3 | Then he went , leaving the house empty but for the woman and the Overseer . |
| 4 | Moreover , not only is the dormant company then entitled to the exemption from auditing but , if it would have been entitled to the exemptions of a small company under section 246 but for the fact that it is a member of an ineligible group , it will also be entitled to those exemptions ; until it ceases to be dormant or no longer qualifies to make itself exempt under section 250 . |
| 5 | The body 's asleep , drunk , inert except for the arm and the hand . |
| 6 | It 's not a college , or even a church , but a Victorian town house , really rather unremarkable but for the fact that the man tipped to become the next American President used to live there . |
| 7 | Yet I must still think it my duty , without reconsidering whether or not it be worthwhile , to continue this plain record of what ( I know ) need not have been plain but for the accident that I am a niggler without impulse , not an imaginative artist . |
| 8 | The figure of 49% would have been much higher but for the fact that only one in ten of farmers in Powys and Speyside saw this as a constraint on their future development . |
| 9 | as if to ensure , however , that we can not interpret this work as a declaration of Gironella , s ideas about race and colour in Mexico , there exists another version , almost identical but for the fact that this is a white queen . |
| 10 | Prior to the passing of the SGSA , s 7(4) of the UCTA prevented exclusion of liability for breach of warranties of title and quiet possession " arising by implication of law " ( see s 7(1) ) , in business contracts ( other than for the sale and hire purchase of goods ) under which possession or ownership of goods was transferred , unless such exclusion passed the test of reasonableness . |