Example sentences of "[conj] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The system can be searched by author , title or pupils 's name , as seen with LIBRAFILE above and overdues can be produced for a pupil , a class or for the whole school . |
| 32 | The House of Lords , not for the first or for the last time , held that ‘ determination ’ should not be construed as including everything which purported to be a determination but was not , and so the court was not precluded from deciding that the order of the Commission was a nullity . |
| 33 | Hence TL is normally used in the following situations : beyond the range of radiocarbon : when no organic material has been preserved on the site : when the association between the event to be dated and the radiocarbon content of the organic samples is poor ; or for the few periods where the age range on a calibrated radiocarbon age is larger than the corresponding TL error term . |
| 34 | Current refinements , no doubt with Christmas present buying in mind , include boxed sets of three or more related cassettes from Warners — for example , all three of James Dean 's movies for £29.95 , or for the same price , Marilyn Monroe in The Prince and the Showgirl , The Misfits and ( a bit of a scoop , since it has not been on video before ) Some Like It Hot . |
| 35 | With this announcement the powers which had occupied and divided Germany after the Second World War effectively accepted the inevitability of early German unification , although the statement contained no indication of the four powers ' preferred timetables for unification or for the two-plus-four negotiations . |
| 36 | For someone like Anderson — or for the Tory activists Simpson heard chanting ‘ Privatise the BBC ’ outside Central Office — the case for dismemberment is clear . |
| 37 | Provided that an applicant for the renewal of a licence or for the permanent transfer of a licence need not attend or be represented unless the applicant has been cited by the board to attend the meeting . |
| 38 | Elsewhere , intelligent use of colour is responsible for the blue shading which fills out me of the canthari surrounding the Tyche medallion at Brantingham , Humbs. , or for the red shadow which falls across the shoulder and left cheek of Venus , in the Kingscote mosaic . |
| 39 | At the other extreme , the pure choice end of the spectrum , are explicit statements of choice , preference , approval , or disapproval : which party people think is best on economic matters for themselves and their families , for Britain as a whole , or for the unemployed ; their evaluations of how well each party has handled issues like unemployment , inflation , defence , health , education , and social services ; how warm they feel towards parties and their leaders ; whether the parties should change their leaders or their policies , or both ; and , last but not least , voting preferences . |
| 40 | The 1930s and 1980s are similar in that a wide variety of institutions , both voluntary and statutory , were involved in both decades in work with or for the unemployed . |
| 41 | Given that there is no physical reason for either the strong antibiasing ( ) required on all scales , or for the non-zero value of , we do not consider this option further ( but see ref. 35 for an alternative view ) . |
| 42 | It is by helping newcomers , becoming a sponsor and by doing practical service of one kind or another for the group or for the Anonymous Fellowship as a whole that one gains greater insights into one 's own disease and greater humility and security in one 's own recovery . |
| 43 | Halfway through interviewing candidates is no time for governor discord or financial disagreements to surface , or for the true needs of the school to be hastily compromised . |
| 44 | We provide a comprehensive range of sizes to suit every yacht specification for leisure use or for the longest of passages . |
| 45 | She showed no concern for her own situation , or for the throbbing pain . |
| 46 | use any facility for any chargeable or funded purpose or for the direct or indirect commercial benefit of another organisation or individual without the written approval of the Director ; |
| 47 | We hasten to add that we adopt the above procedure without any deep reverence for psychiatric classification as such or for the psychiatric form of describing the person . |
| 48 | Now considering there was at least 1,000 miles of sand between Baghdad and Damascus , everybody who heard this remark had hysterics , everybody except for the stupid young officer who went off to think about this . |
| 49 | This picture , except for the Canadian crew , was an extremely unpleasant experience . ’ |
| 50 | Evidence for more exotic trades is also rather limited , except for the suggested school of mosaicists and sculptors at Water Newtons and Carlisles respectively ; it is not surprising , therefore , that mosaics are generally rare in small towns , even though they often occur in nearby villas . |
| 51 | In contrast to the Hong Kong Basic Law , the Macao draft law imposed no restrictions on foreign passport holders taking key posts in Macao after 1999 except for the chief executive who could not gain right of abode in a foreign country during his term of office . |
| 52 | We were pleased to find the palace deserted ( or so we thought ) except for the usual steward and bailiffs who stayed throughout the year to clean the rooms , wash the hangings and sweep out the dirt once the court moved on . |
| 53 | Except for the acute pathogenic variant of simian immunodeficiency ( SIV ) PBj14 , no HIV or virus strains activate normal T cells or isolated viral proteins . |
| 54 | All was silent except for the automatic fire fairly close at hand , somewhere down by the crossroads . |
| 55 | As the State Department and the White House both set crisis management operations in train , and President Bush urgently conferred with top officials , FMLN statements — that the guests , except for the armed Americans , were not hostages and were free to go as soon as a ceasefire was arranged — were almost ignored . |
| 56 | By limiting itself to cautious probing on the 21st ( all except for the disobedient von Zwehl who had registered the day 's only success ) , it had lost a valuable day . |
| 57 | To his annoyance he found that the Treasurer 's office was now completely empty except for the four telephones set down in a row on the bare boards of the floor . |
| 58 | Again , most come from the local supermarket except for the small , but spectacular scarlet ‘ Flamboyant ’ , brought more than 30 years ago . |
| 59 | The houses were scattered around , low-slung , timbered , with a thatched roof and small porch ; it was a village scene similar to many Corbett had seen elsewhere except for the small dark people , their furtive looks and quiet ways . |
| 60 | Nor did the Nonconformity which had survived the later Stuart period serve much as a form of social control , except for the small numbers it served . |