Example sentences of "[conj] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there was a reduction in mental hospital beds of 17 per cent between 1955 and 1975 , this hardly bears comparison with the trend in the USA where for the corresponding period the reduction was 66 per cent . |
| 2 | Assuming that dl → 0 and noting that for a closed contour the line integral of the electric field vanishes we get |
| 3 | The fact was that for a single man the job offered almost half the sum allotted to a couple . |
| 4 | There is the irony : that , just when British Empirical Socialism had come to terms with the idea of a mixed economy , when it had accepted that for the indefinite future a public sector and a private sector would co-exist , when the tangle of objections which the Webbs had seen to the development of a privately-owned industrial co-operative sector had been so far cleared away as to open the path to a natural growth of industrial democracy by a means which , because it reconciled the rights and interests of labour with those of ownership , would have been sustainable , the Labour Government ignored or overlooked the opportunity . |
| 5 | As Britain has 22 million homes with television , this means that for the foreseeable future the majority will be stuck with the terrestrial four channels . |
| 6 | Following the pattern of community constables in England , where the overwhelming majority are male ( Brown and Iles 1985 : 9 ) , there are no females among Easton 's neighbourhood constables , although for a short period the sergeant was female . |
| 7 | Diagonally opposite the stove is the icon corner , although for a Belorussian peasant the most sacred spot is the stove column , where the souls of predecessors reside . |
| 8 | If for the Spanish right the Republic had confirmed its promise as an uncongenial regime , for sections of the left it had by mid-1933 failed to fulfil hopes of far-reaching and irreversible social reform . |
| 9 | He loved life , and for a long time the force was with him . |
| 10 | Eventually , the bloody turf wars ceased , and for a long time the authorities either winked at their illegal trade or even helped themselves to the till . |
| 11 | But Joseph had always been very devoted to any local news and for a long time the talk of the town had been the Cockermouth man — Fletcher Christian 's — Mutiny . |
| 12 | One might call this ‘ applied phonology ’ ; however , the phonological analysis of different languages raises a great number of difficult and interesting theoretical problems , and for a long time the study of phonology ‘ for its own sake ’ has been regarded as an important area of theoretical linguistics . |
| 13 | And for a loving mother the child would have Katelina , who would cherish him now , and make what she could of her marriage , for the sake of what she had found in Kalopetra . |
| 14 | Accumulated errors were to be erased from the holy books , services were to be conducted in a more intelligible manner , sermons were to be encouraged , and scholarship was to be actively fostered in a number of monasteries ; at the same time , new saints were canonized , clergy and laity alike urged to observe the prescribed fasts , and for a brief time the government even went to the lengths of closing the taverns . |
| 15 | This facing colour was designated as sky-blue for the infantry ; and for a brief period the collar , pointed cuffs , and the flaps of the breast pockets were also seen to display coloured facings . |
| 16 | A successor ( all Heads of Department were eligible for election ) had proved hard to find and for a brief period the chairmanship of the Course had been taken over by the Deputy Director , Brian Tonge . |
| 17 | For a spacious single garage , you need a strip of land about 4m ( 13ft ) wide ) , and for a double garage a width of about 6m ( 200ft ) would be ideal . |
| 18 | For many people it is all too easy to put on weight , and for the vast majority the problem is caused by a simple energy imbalance — too much food is consumed and too little energy expended by exercise or work . |
| 19 | The universe , in fact , is expanding ( although that 's another talk really ) and for the present purpose the important thing is that they 're moving away at a speed which increases with their distance and so if we can measure the speed that they 're moving away from us , then we can find their distance , and that takes us to the edge of the universe . |
| 20 | The village like atmosphere of the Leidseplein ; the hustle and bustle of trams , canal boats , street musicians and organ players outside the Central Station ; the energetic buzz of the mildly naughty Rembrandtplein ; the peace and calm of the traditional Jordaan area and for the very brave the decidedly naughty but small red light district . |
| 21 | There is 24 hour room service , and for the busy businessman a facsimile machine is available . |
| 22 | If proof of postage is required for sending important documents through the post , the package or letter is taken to the post office , and for an extra charge the delivery will be recorded and a receipt obtained as proof . |
| 23 | 3.5 With effect from the Possession Date or ( if later ) the date on which the Tenant has obtained all Tenant 's Approvals the Tenant shall have licence and authority to enter upon the Premises for the purpose of carrying out the Tenant 's Works in accordance with clause 3.7 but for no other purpose The problem is that the words " but for no other purpose " could result in a period of non-user from the date of completion of the tenant 's works and the date of the completion of the lease ( see clause 1.15.2 ) and the clause should be amended as follows : |
| 24 | Wordsworth continues to watch , but for a long time the figure refuses to move . |
| 25 | Probably the original intention was merely to contrast the procedure with that of a public inquiry ( where , of course , the inquiry is in full view of the public ) but for a long time the bogy of officials beavering away in private and then producing a report which damned some poor individual or organisation , without those officials being in any way accountable , was viewed with grave suspicion . |
| 26 | In the modern Hebrew Bible all numbers are written out in full , but for a long time the text was written without vowels . |
| 27 | I accept that the number of immigration officers at Heathrow has increased , but for a long time the numbers employed were well below what was required . |
| 28 | But for a brief space the archbishop was at peace with both pope and emperor , and this was an alliance even the commune could not withstand . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | They can be used as a single axis system , but for a detailed description a multiaxial code is recommended . |