Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Proceedings under the Settled Land Act 1925 , the Trustee Act 1925 or for the administration of the estate of a deceased person may be commenced in the court which the plaintiff regards as most convenient having regard to the residences or places of business of the parties or to the subject matter of the proceedings ( Ord 4 , r 4 ) , but payment into court under s 63 of the Trustee Act 1925 shall be made to the court in whose district the person ( or any of them ) making the payment resides ( Ord 49 , r 20(2) ) . |
| 2 | A tenancy that is something else — that is to say , either periodic or for a term certain but described as a tenancy at will — will inevitably be caught ( ibid per Scarman LJ at 217 ) . |
| 3 | o overall er the plan looks reasonably sound except for the which er reflect in the price . |
| 4 | It is clear that for a girl to have any chance of succeeding , she must play the Tour in some style . |
| 5 | It 's important to be clear that for the moment we are talking about the purchase of places in the private and voluntary sectors : in-house purchasing is not with us yet . |
| 6 | It is clear that for the banking sector as a whole , foreign currency business predominates . |
| 7 | The sky now suddenly seemed clear except for a CR 42 going down in a spin ahead of me . |
| 8 | Shaped like straw mushrooms , they are completely clear except for a gossamer veil which makes up their body . |
| 9 | Every detail was clear except for the number-plate . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Most of these are now desolate except for the fifteenth century Church of the Pantanassa , still a convent , and a few others such as the fourteenth century Church of Evangelistria , S. Sophia , c. 1350 , and the fourteenth century Church of Peribleptos . |
| 12 | It is far easier for the British than for the American executive to do this . |
| 13 | If they 've got any sense at all they should be I mean they 're getting it for free except for the telephone calls you might use |
| 14 | The difference in performance between large and small hardware firms was less marked than for the other sectors . |
| 15 | The hybridisation patterns are different except for the Eco RI fragment of 6.5 kb detected by both probes . |
| 16 | What can be easier than for a manufacturer to limit his sales to those members of the public who fulfil the qualification of being this or doing that ? |
| 17 | The radial shields are rounded triangular to teardrop shaped , slightly greater than a quarter of the disk diameter in length , distally contiguous except for a row of granules which runs along the suture . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm afraid that for the moment , yes , the company would prefer you to resign . ’ |
| 19 | The water trough was empty except for a layer of scum , a beer bottle and some sweet wrappers . |
| 20 | They were empty except for a caretaker or two . |
| 21 | The benches are empty except for a solitary figure sitting huddled in a mackintosh , watching with fierce concentration . |
| 22 | The doorway led into a small court with white walls and flat roof of red earth , empty except for a man sitting on the ground on a blue mat . |
| 23 | The field was empty except for a few ewes with young lambs . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I was in a round room , which was empty except for a large square computer . |
| 26 | The incinerator was empty except for a trace of carbon ash . |
| 27 | The yard was empty except for a neat looking two-horse box and at the far end a large powerful motorbike . |
| 28 | The street below was empty except for a girl walking along sobbing quietly and a boy behind her trying to explain . |
| 29 | The library was empty except for an elderly man pottering in Biography and a couple of schoolchildren in the reference section ; there was opportunity for what Joyce called a natter , and no escaping it . |
| 30 | It was empty except for an ox and ass who snorted and brayed a greeting . |