Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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) ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Complimenting people is a real pleasure — as much for the recipient as for the person giving it . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Working with Thirkell , Pilger had drawn up sample pages of a new design , using gobbledegook text except for the headlines . |
| 16 | Immersion in water is less beneficial for the skin than for the woman , however . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It is perhaps slightly easier for the writer than for the reader . |
| 19 | Whatever had been achieved by the 1976 Act , it had made little impact on this case except for the removal of her name from the media . |
| 20 | New light on an Old Master is illuminated indeed , and it 's what you will find at Canada House Gallery where for the first time , an almost forgotten body of work by Henri Matisse , relating to his fascination with the Canadian Inuit , has been mounted together with much original source material in the way of Inuit masks , photographs and books which the artist studied . |
| 21 | A green Renault 18 , very travel-stained with grime on the windscreen except for the segments swept by the wipers , was the seventh private car to come out . |
| 22 | However , these pauses were considerably longer for the philosophical section of the passage than for the description of the countryside . |
| 23 | The Central Asian nationalities were the most resistant to russification in this as in other respects : no more than 3 per cent of any of the five major nationalities concerned claimed Russian as a native language in the 1989 census , a much lower proportion than for the non-Russian population as a whole , and levels of fluency in Russian were also much lower than among minority nationalities elsewhere in the USSR . |
| 24 | A and B might well have features in common from the outset ( the c elements in the figure ) and these will produce primary generalization — training on A will give associative strength to stimulus elements that are present also in B. The X representation functions in just the same way as the c elements in producing generalization except for the fact that the ability of A and B to activate X is based on prior conditioning . |
| 25 | Sorvino had every warning light on the car operating except for the headlamp flash , and he pumped this now as he was forced to slow behind the blockade . |
| 26 | The Frenchman then had an untroubled run to the flag except for the downpour on the final two laps . |
| 27 | The Frenchman then had an untroubled run to the flag except for the downpour on the final two laps . |
| 28 | They all roared with laughter except for the sneering man who suddenly grew fish-coloured and shouted and wagged his finger . |
| 29 | Entropies of stacking are much more adverse for the GC stack than for the AU , such that the difference in free energy of stacking between the two types of interactions is only 11.4 kJ mol -1 despite the much larger difference in exothermicity . |
| 30 | However , Randall ( with more concern for principled commercial independence than for the economic logic of external benefits ) refused to ask for such a subvention from central reserve funds for his London Board ( which carried the greatest burden of standardisation expenditure ) . |