Example sentences of "[subord] for [art] [noun] [unc] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm just you 're just making me think actually because I saw in one of the papers this morning erm a headline , if I can find it , it said something to the effect that — yes here it is , in the Independent , it says ‘ TV soaps are first to survive rescheduling ’ and it goes on to tell us that the British television schedules as we all know were the first casualties of war in the Gulf except for the nation 's daily diet of Australian soap . |
| 2 | The idea was so daft she would have laughed except for the Captain 's searing glance , which rested for no more than a second on her before returning to burn into Midnight as he breathed : |
| 3 | Possibly a subsequent review stimulates action that would not have taken place but for the committee 's initial probing . |
| 4 | She would have been fast asleep already , but for the Admiral 's early-morning call . |
| 5 | As for the farmer 's own income increasing , it was found that larger farmers reap better financial benefits from converting more buildings , compared to smaller farmers who just received a one-off cash injection . |
| 6 | As for the Essenes ' supposed non-violence , there is significant evidence to disprove it . |
| 7 | As for the party 's electoral system , it is a compromise clumsily put together by that decent man , Terry Duffy , to minimise union power at its most triumphalist and overbearing . |
| 8 | As for the project 's general direction towards RBL and the thematic and investigative pedagogies this entails , the head and library staff shared a strong commitment to such a philosophy . |
| 9 | As for the industry 's registered dock labour force , the Government made provision for a three year redundancy scheme , jointly financed by the Government and the employer of any dockers who were ‘ surplus to requirements ’ . |