Example sentences of "[conj] for the [noun pl] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mother also favoured a small black number , while her father and Martin Parr were like twins , except for the differences in size and weight . |
| 2 | Although residential and day-care staff have been a priority target for training in many departments , the vast majority are untrained , except for the offices in charge . |
| 3 | In Acts 8 , I saw that for the converts in Samaria , although wonderfully converted and delivered from evil ( v 7 ) and baptised ( v 12 ) , there was still something missing . |
| 4 | Then came the crowning blow for France and for the Catholics in Scotland . |
| 5 | These hints were followed up by many gentlemen : and I think I never saw Mr Loudon more pleased than when a highly respectable gardener once told him that he was living in a new and most comfortable cottage , which his master had built for him ; a noble marquess , who said that he should never have thought of it , but for the observations in Mr Loudon 's Gardener 's Magazine , as they made him consider whether the cottage was comfortable or not , and that , as soon as he did so , he perceived its deficiencies . |
| 6 | Ken Robinson , too , has successfully taken on the role of one-man interpreter , friend , challenger , articulator and spokesman not only for drama but for the arts in education generally ( 1980 and 1982 ) . |
| 7 | A Character Ballet is one in which classical technique is discarded except where it is used to depict particular and usually fantastic characters as for the dolls in Petrushka and La Boutique Fantasque . |