Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] for a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He returned to England in 1844 but was unemployed except for a brief tenure of the post of governor of the new prison in Birmingham in 1849–51 , before dismissal . |
| 2 | The benches are empty except for a solitary figure sitting huddled in a mackintosh , watching with fierce concentration . |
| 3 | The doors to the great white stone building that led to the palatial rotunda were open , the lobby empty except for a single security guard sitting and reading behind the circular information desk . |
| 4 | The field was empty except for a few ewes with young lambs . |
| 5 | The secularisation of Holy Week and Easter now seems complete except for a faithful remnant of practising Christians — about 10 per cent of the population on most calculations . |
| 6 | But the natives were friendly except for a few incidents in Skye . |
| 7 | Where the ground is frozen for most of the year , soils that contain water remain solid except for a brief spell each summer , when they thaw to a depth that varies with latitude and local conditions . |
| 8 | You can work full-time , part-time or for a few hours in the evenings . |
| 9 | All was dark except for a tiny glimmer of red light . |
| 10 | Everything was dark except for a single patch where the moon shone through the skylight on to the wall . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | His skin was like oiled silk , healthily tanned and smooth except for a light sprinkling of curly black hair . |
| 13 | The landlord , a thin ashpole of a man , completely bald except for a stray lock of hair which constantly drooped over his eyes , wiped his greasy hands on a dirty apron , served them and scurried off . |
| 14 | Once the sailor has ‘ climbed the rigging ’ , which is usually an energetic process , he ‘ looks out ’ , remaining stationary except for a slight sway as the boat sails out of harbour . |
| 15 | On other vases , especially on his favourite form , an egg-shaped amphora with narrow neck , like those used for prize oil at the Panathenaic games , he reaches the logical conclusion of this trend : a vase totally black except for a single figure on each side , without even a ground-line ( fig. 106 ) ; the figure is the whole decoration . |
| 16 | He opened the door to a large room completely bare except for a vast trestle-table that filled it from wall to wall . |
| 17 | The room was bare except for a ping-pong table on folding trestle legs . |
| 18 | He was nude except for a drooping condom . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | For half of Oxfordshire teachers , outsiders were not very involved and for a further quarter not involved at all . |
| 21 | Her earlier fears about what terrors lay in store returned , all the more powerful because for a few minutes she had forgotten them . |
| 22 | He looked puzzled and for a better description . |
| 23 | A partnership can , I believe , be temporary and for a fixed purpose . |
| 24 | in a pub he was , got drunk and for a twenty pound bet shaved off all his hair . |
| 25 | It happened almost overnight and for a long time nobody even heard of him . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They had reached the landing when the first door in the corridor opened and out stepped a man who seemed to have no connection with the boy Andrew Jones , for here was a handsome , well-built and tall man , and he was naked except for a small towel tucked round his waist . |
| 29 | She too was naked except for a small towel around her shoulders . |
| 30 | Jim took up the slack on his own chain and four others , like the Casting-Master almost naked except for a blackened leather apron and tight-fitting skull cap , pulled and cursed the liquid iron on its descent to the earth . |