Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What 's the difference between except for the paper . |
| 2 | Other women came and went in his life after that , including Jan Parsons who would never have been heard of but for the sex-video scandal . |
| 3 | Jack too felt a painful void — ‘ one remembers his old happy days , especially his puppyhood , with an ache ’ , and for Minto it was grief ‘ as if for a human being ’ . |
| 4 | During the active growing season , prepare the rooting area as if for a seedbed and scope out a gentle dip in which the branch will lie comfortably . |
| 5 | Satisfied , Barry Silk laid the last item of his equipment lovingly down , almost as if for a kit inspection . |
| 6 | I sat right at the front , my head tilted back as if for a nose-bleed , the stick of my sherbet lolly angled like a thermometer , in a quiet fever of excitement . |
| 7 | Some of the children had been brought by their parents , as if for a special outing or a treat . |
| 8 | The object , like the subject , has no consonants , and is attained by pushing the lips forward as if for a kiss . |
| 9 | Standing at the door with her knuckles on her hips , she bade me recline on the high wall-bed , as if for a medical inspection . |
| 10 | Pockets were emptied of loose change , parcels scanned as if for a malignant tumour and handbags rifled for evidence of evil intent . |
| 11 | Mrs Danby , who was dressed in sporty tweeds , as if for a shooting party , gave a superior kind of nod . |
| 12 | Dorothy looked wildly around her as if for an escape — but nothing was restraining her . |
| 13 | ‘ It was a conversion experience , ’ he says , ‘ I had seen his carvings in a vague sort of way already [ Esterly was then a post-graduate student at Cambridge and surrounded by some of Gibbons ' best work ] but I found myself looking at them there in St James 's as if for the first time . |
| 14 | I felt myself falling , falling , as if for the first time , deeper and deeper into mysterious pits of passion and anxiety , longing and despair . |
| 15 | She admired his hands , seeing the slender curled fingers and pink palms as if for the first time . |
| 16 | And then he smiled at her as if for the first time , a smile that made her think that he had been touched by God . |
| 17 | For Lee everything was being spotlit and she was seeing the people around her as if for the first time . |
| 18 | And yet , in spite of the fatigue , he felt , good , as if for the first time in his life he had really stretched himself and grown up . |
| 19 | The famous late figurine of a goddess found in a small rural shrine at Gazi wears a diadem embellished with three carefully depicted poppy seed-heads , and they have been cut as if for the extraction of opium . |
| 20 | It is all very well expounding the theory that an artist should cultivate an innocent eye , seeing things as if for the first time . |
| 21 | In which case the non-verbal concomitants of the various utterances are improvised as if for the first time , and in the best of all possible productions an unforeseeable Lear , Macbeth or Rosalind emerges in performance , and the speeches come across expressing meanings which would have been hard to foresee from reading the bare text . |
| 22 | Then one July evening , just before the war , he suddenly noticed the roses as if for the first time . |
| 23 | Affection , melancholy , and other emotions that eluded classification , surged and slopped inside her as she noted each detail as if for the first time — or as if for the last . |
| 24 | Affection , melancholy , and other emotions that eluded classification , surged and slopped inside her as she noted each detail as if for the first time — or as if for the last . |
| 25 | Her and Fernando , loving , making love as if for the very first time , with urgency and excitement and a fevered rush of emotions . |
| 26 | If the lunar curves in Figure 6.9 can roughly be applied to Mercury then crater erasure took place before about 4000 Ma ago , and most of the present craters , which may also have given rise to the smooth plains , were in place by about 3000 Ma ago , and little has happened on the Mercurian surface since except for the effects of tidal slow-down and interior shrinkage . |