Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ahus all stand near the coast except for one ceremonial group , almost lost in the billowing moorlands of the interior . |
| 2 | The child was allowed into the bedroom and for two hours she watched her father die . |
| 3 | The man was relaxed and rested and Holly felt the tiredness brush through his mind and for nine and a half hours he had worked in the Factory at the lathe that fashioned chairs ' legs . |
| 4 | He has been with the police for 19 years , and has served at Colchester , Chelmsford , police HQ and for two years worked for Scotland Yard in conjunction with Interpol . |
| 5 | And then I decided very reluctantly to have an excavator and for three and a half days it worked down there and erm created a sort of Black Hole Calcutta and put all the stuff it had taken out , it spewed around so that it , there was just mud and no water . |
| 6 | This produces pages of transcription which are carefully scanned in the hope that for one brief second some minor indiscretion may have taken place . |
| 7 | But in this very satisfaction lies the difficulty that for twenty years or more a good deal of self-esteem and affirmation has depended upon the parenting role . |
| 8 | I accept almost entirely the statement of faith except for one phrase accepting that God is love I have difficulty in reconciling he who created the universe , who is love , with the tempest , the earthquake the great white shark and the crocodile . |
| 9 | In consideration of the purchaser incurring the costs of its professional advisers in commencing due diligence and negotiating the binding agreement the vendor hereby undertakes to the purchaser that during the period from today until midnight on [ ] 19[] it shall not negotiate the sale of the business with any person ( either directly or indirectly ) other than the purchaser The only essential content of the heads of terms is to specify that they are subject to contract except for one or two specific clauses . |
| 10 | Inside her pickup she was oblivious to the harvest dust caking the dashboard , sticking the panel windows open , masking the windscreen except for two fans of clear glass where the wipers reached . |
| 11 | ‘ Whilst Irvine , ’ he remarked , ‘ could have had his throat cut by any member of Queen Margaret 's household except for four ; you and I who were at the convent , and Catesby and Melford who were in Nottingham . |
| 12 | There 's a very good example of that some years ago er in one of these groups I had erm a student had a severe stutter problem and he said that he had hypnosis and for two years he was fine , he had no stutter and suddenly one day under stress it came back an and ever since erm then he was having some other kind of treatment I think , but er but that 's typical . |
| 13 | M.Ps have no privilege protecting them against an arrest on criminal charges but they are protected against arrest in connection with a civil matter while parliament is in session and for 40 days before and after . |
| 14 | He grew up rich in beauty ; I grew up under a miserly , penny-pinching sky , in the niggardly light of England where , for three months of the year , it gets dark soon after lunch and for three more it does n't bother getting light at all . |
| 15 | The task of bringing up children is tough for any parent but for one man it 's particularly difficult . |
| 16 | The people of Lewis do not always present a sympathetic profile but in this case they had my sympathy and for two reasons . |
| 17 | For Tibetan freedom and for thousands of years of long life for His Holiness the Dalai Lama — and because the Chinese should leave Tibet . |
| 18 | And what 's more , everyone 's apologising all over the place except for one vile journalist who says it 's possible a misguided vigilante thought getting rid of Harry the only path to real justice , and I want Harry to sue him , it 's truly vicious . ’ |
| 19 | But for me , all the time , it is a reminder that for 49 years it replaced wedding anniversary celebrations , and the memory of all those bonfires on the way to Bournemouth on a drizzly November afternoon , all those years ago . |
| 20 | Thus , of the clients who did not receive the residential , short stay , or day care , other services were either provided or arranged for 20.6 per cent of cases in the specialist team and for 6.9 per cent of cases in the generic team . |
| 21 | The court heard that when the Deputy County Engineer inspected the dump site on 15 April , he found four bags of pelleted asbestos exposed on the site , pellets scattered on part of the site and for 70 yards along the access road and one pellet at the entrance gate to the site . |
| 22 | Her father nodded his approval and for one moment Rachel thought he was going to ask the new MO 's name . |
| 23 | It is for the circumstance to leave room but for one eventuality , for it to settle things . |
| 24 | Equally no-one travelling on to Nicaragua could fail to notice the difference from Guatemala — people still have to live with civil war but for ten years have had a government that has actively promoted mental health . |
| 25 | As he reached the door , however , it was opened by a sturdy-looking dame in an old-fashioned working gown of grey wool , covered with a comprehensive apron , and a mob-cap concealing most of her greying hair but for two neat bands at the front parted in the centre . |
| 26 | Thus muonic hydrogen is similar to ordinary hydrogen but for two important features . |
| 27 | However , I have here rescued the lost experiments on memory transfer from otherwise merciful oblivion not merely to do historical justice to a now suppressed period of my chosen research field but for three rather more solid reasons . |
| 28 | ‘ Where a deposit is held for any person or for two or more persons jointly by a bare trustee , that person or , as the case may be , those persons jointly shall be treated as entitled to the deposit without the intervention of any trust . |
| 29 | ‘ We have used our experience and our ability to sharpen up our image and our content and for six months now have been using full colour every week . ’ |
| 30 | After a previous round of talks , held in Moscow earlier in the month , Niyazov decreed on May 26 that conscripts in the Turkmen armed forces should serve for 18 months ( but for two years with the navy and for one year by those with higher education ) . |