Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now the solar influence is beginning to turn around to contribute a further warming influence up to the year 2010 , boosting the greenhouse effect where for the past 30 years it has been counterbalancing it . |
| 2 | Our cooker is about 35 years old , but is still in excellent condition except for the sealing ring . |
| 3 | After that there are no plans to build new aircraft except for the controversial FSX , a new support-fighter based on the American F-16 that Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is developing with General Dynamics of the United States . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh my boy , my boy , home at last ! ’ cried Mrs Clare , who at that moment cared no more for Angel 's lack of religion than for the dust on his clothes . |
| 5 | Is it any better to act for the National Rifle Association than for the Cote d'Azur Development Agency , to take one name from his appendix ? |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , yes , the Wheel was ready for the ceremony except for the foliage ; we do that on the day of the event so that it is fresh ; laurel and yew . |
| 7 | Calculation of standard errors of sample statistics is generally more complicated for the sampling schemes described in this chapter than for the simple random sample . |
| 8 | Although the inversion rate was low for both age groups , it was significantly lower for the eight-year-olds than for the five-year-olds . |
| 9 | It is much harder to argue for an unclear and complicated arrangement for arriving at what is taught in schools than for the logic of a national curriculum . |
| 10 | Hall and Honey ( 1989a ) report a further study ( experiment 3 ) in which the procedures were exactly the same as those used in their appetitive conditioning experiment except for the use of shock as the reinforcer and conditioned suppression as the measure of behaviour . |
| 11 | It was an historic statute since for the first time it provided a statutory power for the banning of marches and processions of protest and demonstration . |
| 12 | In the case of the discretionary sentence there is always a notional equivalent determinate sentence which could be imposed in accord with established sentencing practice but for the current mental state of the defendant which makes him a danger to the public . |
| 13 | Emma closed her eyes but for the moment she could n't answer for the throbbing in her throat . |
| 14 | Punters ' money might well have drifted towards Pakistan but for the uncertainty over Javed Miandad 's fitness . |
| 15 | Although there are two offences , murder and manslaughter , the latter includes two distinct varieties : ‘ voluntary ’ manslaughter ( killings which would be murder but for the existence of defined extenuating circumstances ) ; and ‘ involuntary ’ manslaughter ( killings for which there is no need to prove any awareness of the risk of death being caused , but for which there is thought to be sufficient fault to justify criminal liability ) . |
| 16 | Where the plaintiff sues as an assignee the action shall be commenced only in a court in which the assignor might , under the above rule , have commenced the action but for the assignment ( Ord 4 , r 2(2) ) . |
| 17 | Superposition to form a master curve is readily achieved by movement along the log t axis , where the shift factor a τ has the same characteristics as for the relaxation data . |
| 18 | This is as true for a line of music by Mozart or Gershwin as for the skyline of Salisbury Cathedral of the Taj Mahal . |
| 19 | Zone I was in its way as much of a prison for the Commandant as for the eight hundred men to whom he played a vague mutation of God and Commissar . |
| 20 | Complimenting people is a real pleasure — as much for the recipient as for the person giving it . |
| 21 | Er I think I 'll open my presents when for the Chinese . |
| 22 | It was very quiet in the kitchen except for the clock in the corner that ticked so loudly that it sounded as if it would burst out of its case . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Studlar ( 1984 ) has remarked that all established institutions in Britain have been the objects of critical attack in recent times except for the monarchy : ‘ Only the monarchy seems safe from challenge , secure in its substantive weakness ’ ( p. 5 ) . |
| 25 | Working with Thirkell , Pilger had drawn up sample pages of a new design , using gobbledegook text except for the headlines . |
| 26 | Immersion in water is less beneficial for the skin than for the woman , however . |
| 27 | Such discounts can mean the price is many times lower for the branded drug than for the generic drug and consultants may be unaware of the price in the community . |
| 28 | ‘ They break the rules because Bawden cares less for rules than for the things he has to say about the feel of a summer morning , the watery sunshine of an April afternoon , or the flurry of a February snowstorm . ’ |
| 29 | It is perhaps slightly easier for the writer than for the reader . |
| 30 | In Swindon we are obviously delighted because all of the production of the equipment , all the design and the research , is all carried out at Swindon except for the software , which is provided by C S I . |