Example sentences of "[conj] for the [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , where for the great mass of its members , the success of a consumer co-operative is now no more than a matter of marginal interest to them , for the members of an industrial co-operative it is quite otherwise . |
| 2 | ‘ Ad hoc ’ is a Latin phrase meaning ‘ to that ’ ; in other words these bodies were appointed to devote their activities ‘ to that ’ purpose , or for the specific purpose for which they were appointed . |
| 3 | Or for the total luxury of the Hotel Golden Tulip St. Honore , three nights including flights at an unbelievable £292 . |
| 4 | The truth is that he only races as a personal challenge , or for the pure enjoyment of running . |
| 5 | It is important to know what help is forthcoming for you or for the elderly person for whom you are caring . |
| 6 | Provided that an applicant for the renewal of a licence or for the permanent transfer of a licence need not attend or be represented unless the applicant has been cited by the board to attend the meeting . |
| 7 | Given that there is no physical reason for either the strong antibiasing ( ) required on all scales , or for the non-zero value of , we do not consider this option further ( but see ref. 35 for an alternative view ) . |
| 8 | It is by helping newcomers , becoming a sponsor and by doing practical service of one kind or another for the group or for the Anonymous Fellowship as a whole that one gains greater insights into one 's own disease and greater humility and security in one 's own recovery . |
| 9 | We hasten to add that we adopt the above procedure without any deep reverence for psychiatric classification as such or for the psychiatric form of describing the person . |
| 10 | Evidence for more exotic trades is also rather limited , except for the suggested school of mosaicists and sculptors at Water Newtons and Carlisles respectively ; it is not surprising , therefore , that mosaics are generally rare in small towns , even though they often occur in nearby villas . |
| 11 | It was invisible in the fog except for the faint blur of its lamp . |
| 12 | If the sidereal axial period of Venus were -43.16 days then , except for the slight effect of the eccentricity of the orbits of Venus and the Earth , Venus would present the same face to the Earth at each inferior conjunction . |
| 13 | Soundless except for the dull crack of the axe against bone . |
| 14 | There was silence , except for the deep thrumming of the engine . |
| 15 | As far as I can discover , except for the rough translation of a poem by Watcyn Wyn in his Wales ( 1905 ) , there is no further mention of verse of any kind in Edward Thomas 's letters after this Long Vacation . |
| 16 | Behind the stripey brick facade , on a run-down street behind the market , there was an interesting building , one room wide but 100 yards deep , deserted except for the odd work of art . |
| 17 | He watched their departure through a spreading mist , and when the last car had gone and the avenue was silent except for the long sigh of grass , he allowed himself to be taken back to his room . |
| 18 | For the next ten minutes the house was quiet except for the perceptible hum of healthy life from the kitchen . |
| 19 | In other words man 's life was not really affected except for the possible lack of sex which I have mentioned whereas woman was reduced to eating and sleeping and also probably knitting little woolly jumpers and hats and gloves and scarfs and trousers . |
| 20 | The " Pass " had been closed since the deterioration in Sino-Vietnamese relations in the late 1970s , except for the infrequent exchange of prisoners of war . |
| 21 | All was silence , except for the creaking tick of a clock . |
| 22 | We went in gingerly but as far as one could tell the floor was solid except for the one strip over the missing bit of beam . |
| 23 | Except for the occasional food-parcel from the United States , he would never have sought to diverge from the rationing system , which , like many other controls , were maintained long after the war ended . |
| 24 | The shelling and mortaring had almost died away , except for the occasional round from the mortar team back in the orchard . |
| 25 | It was a pleasant place , overlooking the the Thames and Embankment Gardens , spacious and , except for the occasional hooting of the boats , quiet . |
| 26 | The disk is round , sack-like being thin walled and flexible , slightly indented over the arms ; covered by small imbricating scales except for the central area of the disk which is covered by a thickened wrinkled skin ; diameter up to 20 mm . |
| 27 | Except for the little meanness about Claudine , his nasty trick of kissing her when he knew that Marie would see them . |
| 28 | he is an officer or employee of that company or a related company who has access to unpublished price sensitive information which ought not reasonably to be disclosed except for the proper performance of his duties ; or |
| 29 | he is in a professional or business relationship with that company or a related company and has access to unpublished price sensitive information which ought not reasonably to be disclosed except for the proper performance of his duties |
| 30 | Employers would be prohibited from conducting a medical examination of any employment applicant , except for the single purpose of ascertaining ability to perform job-related functions . |