Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was standing in his pyjamas in his bedroom , which was empty but for the usual furniture . |
| 2 | The car park was empty but for the elderly gentleman 's massive Ford , which was just crunching over the gravel towards the road , an old but impressive bronze Aston Martin which Charlotte supposed must belong to Gus — it sent him up a couple of notches in her regard — and the school bus , still stationary , boiling over with bored boys , and emitting a plaintive chorus of : ‘ Why are we waiting ? ’ |
| 3 | The roof of the City stretched away from him like a vast field of snow , empty but for the small group of officials who were gathered , heads bowed , beside the open hatchway . |
| 4 | Siobhan 's bedroom is empty but for the pink carpet , a bed with a pink bedspread and a chest of drawers rattling vacantly from some obscure , whining wind . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This must be achieved as well as possible and for the best price . |
| 7 | Early on a wet Sunday morning outside Yaroslavl station , in the centre of Moscow , my journey was complete and for the first time in 10 days I was alone . |
| 8 | And should the conditions about availability of , or taking of , food be national or for the local Licensing Justices to attach as appropriate when granting the Children 's Certificate ? |
| 9 | I was totally conscious and for the first time since my labour started I felt relaxed . |
| 10 | But the question had been unwelcome and for the first time some of his cockiness seemed to have drained from him . |
| 11 | We fished stuff out of the trashcans in Washington Square Park , a sandwich , an apple intact but for the missing bite , then to the Superette for nickels and dimes . |
| 12 | The door was locked , the room unlit but for the faint glow of a small screen to one side of the desk . |
| 13 | ‘ Today 's game is only of relative importance , not just because it is a friendly but for the good reason that today 's Argentina bears little resemblance to the one that will play in next summer 's finals . |
| 14 | ‘ Today 's game is only of relative importance , not just because it is a friendly but for the good reason that today 's Argentina bears little resemblance to the one that will play in next summer 's finals . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Economic circumstances have been poor and for the chemical industry they were absolutely diabolical by the middle of the past year . |
| 17 | For half of Oxfordshire teachers , outsiders were not very involved and for a further quarter not involved at all . |
| 18 | Olive was born there and might have stayed in Ireland for good but for the civil unrest created by the Irish demands for home rule at the time . |
| 19 | But it would probably be a mistake to draw any such sweeping conclusion , either for the short or for the long term . |
| 20 | The equaliser brought more boost to Town , than United and for the first time in the game , the Oxford goal was under pressure . |
| 21 | He looked puzzled and for a better description . |
| 22 | A partnership can , I believe , be temporary and for a fixed purpose . |
| 23 | in a pub he was , got drunk and for a twenty pound bet shaved off all his hair . |
| 24 | He never came to the hotel drunk and for the first time for years worked almost to a routine . |
| 25 | Apparently during the First World War some professor erm was using a bunsen burner and he burned himself quite badly and by him he just happ he just happened to have some lavender oil essential and for the nearest thing he put his hand in there and apparently it was supposed to have calmed it down and it healed very quickly . |
| 26 | It happened almost overnight and for a long time nobody even heard of him . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | By the early fourteenth century Ramon Lull could stress the need to fight not merely for self-glorification but for the common good . |
| 29 | The carriage of goods for a subsidiary or for a holding company and for other companies which are subsidiaries of the same holding company is generally regarded as own account for these purposes . |
| 30 | With things like art nouveau and Edwardian furniture , when David started buying them , I went and got books to get my act together in order that I knew what he was into , but with drugs , I did n't know , added to which David was very secretive and for a long time I was n't aware that he was having a problem , not necessarily from cocaine addiction , which everybody loves to tell you is not addictive , but it is in terms of the fact that you rely on feeling up to cope — you just become more and more paranoid . |