Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had even caused Dad to get in touch with her ( although apparently for the past three or four years , he had been collecting cuttings … ) |
| 2 | The effects of the net changes in social class have been modelled explicitly for the university sector in a number of forecasts ( Diamond and Smith , 1982 , 1984 ; Diamond , 1985 ; AUT , 1983 ; Collins , 1983 ) as well as implicitly by the DES ( 1984a , b , 1986b ) .4 These effects have been the most important single factor for which data have been available at a national level albeit only for the university sector . |
| 3 | But Elizabeth Gould 's self-concept hardly refers to her domestic situation at all — except perhaps for the statement ‘ I am hard working ’ . |
| 4 | The Tate collections have long needed to be split : traditional British art in the present building ; modern British ( twentieth-century , or post-1945 ? ) and foreign Schools elsewhere , except perhaps for the jumbo Moore bronzes , which could be recycled for a Thatcher monument , or other suitable purposes . |
| 5 | Only a fraction of those who know the Oberland are acquainted with the Bernest Mitteland — except perhaps for the capital city , Bern itself , which lies near the centre of it . |
| 6 | Expansion and contraction of awareness may be interdependent , so that ‘ Be aware ’ would not , for example , pronounce waking good but sleeping bad ; when exhaustion is blurring awareness one can go so far as to say ‘ You ought to go to sleep ’ , although only for the sake of waking with refreshed awareness tomorrow . |
| 7 | Thus a suspect defence completed the qualifying programme of six matches without conceding a goal ; they must be doing something right , although not for the first time their debt to Shilton was manifest . |
| 8 | Nuno 's ability is a matter of opinion , but the point about the Trantec ads is a matter of fact , although not for the reason your correspondent quotes . |
| 9 | She was n't going to let him see that she would jump at it , although not for the reasons he might suppose . |
| 10 | Equally you will not need an application form , except possibly for the record , if you are seeing a single applicant who has applied for the job ‘ on spec . ’ |
| 11 | Since it is the larger companies that are included in stock indices ( and the smaller the company the lower its weight ) , the omission of a value for the voting rights is probably not important , except possibly for the Value Line Arithmetic index , which is an equally weighted index covering some 1700 companies . |
| 12 | may have been enrolled more than once for the module |
| 13 | Their second defeat in four days by a London club means that a quick return to the present Second Division is more likely than ever for the First Division 's bottom team . |
| 14 | Then there were ads , more than ever for the sake of the season . |
| 15 | 11.1.2 either party suffers distress or execution , commits an act of bankruptcy , goes or is put into liquidation ( otherwise than solely for the purpose of solvent amalgamation or reconstruction ) , or seeks any form of protection against its creditors from any competent Court or tribunal , |
| 16 | Yet though irregular both in incidence and attendance , assemblies provided a golden opportunity for the dissemination of royal propaganda , to insist on the notion of ‘ public ’ war ( see p. 288 ) , and to depict royal campaigns as undertaken ‘ for the defence of the realm , ’ rather than simply for the king 's self-interest . |
| 17 | Section 5 prevents this practice completely , by providing that avoidance of liability for defective goods caused by negligence of the person involved in their manufacture or distribution can not be excluded by a term or notice in a " guarantee " of goods ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption as against a person who has found the goods to be defective while he was using them , or while they were in his possession , otherwise than exclusively for the purposes of a business . |
| 18 | The very fact that there are bodies in existence whereby such matters can be mulled over , experiences exchanged and ‘ fixes ’ established bodes more than well for the safe operation of such aircraft . |
| 19 | But there 's no real rule , although maybe for the group it has to be conducive to live performance because we are such a live performance band . ’ |
| 20 | It may perhaps be objected that the distance may prevent the pupils of the Hospitals from attending the Lectures of the Veterinary Professor — I will first answer to that — that it would be dangerous for the progress of the Veterinary science to give them too free admission into the College — because it might give a disgust to the residing pupils from their application to the Veterinary Medicine and many of them would change their mind and apply themselves to the anatomy of the human body , thinking that it would be more honorable for them to cure the human species than Animals , this happened in France and the best Veterinary pupils are now Physicians and Surgeons to the human species — this prejudiced ideal would inculcate itself into the minds of young men , the more so as the Veterinary Science is still in its Infancy in this Country , and in an abject state , for this reason it would be equally dangerous to permit residing pupils to attend medical or anatomical lectures , of the human body , or to frequent Hospitals : Therefore a certain distance from the Town would be more useful than otherwise for the progress of the Veterinary Science . |
| 21 | The agricultural quality of the land and the need to control the rate at which land is taken for development are among the factors to be considered [ in assessing planning applications affecting agricultural land ] , together with the need to facilitate development and economic activity that provides jobs , and the continuing need to protect the countryside for its own sake rather than primarily for the productive value of the land . |
| 22 | It was better late than never for the 12 lucky winners of a tennis holiday at the Sport Hotel in Eilat , Israel |
| 23 | It was well worth going to if only for the scene of the spring cleaning of the dwarfs ’ house . |
| 24 | After that I went down to the kitchen and made a cheese sandwich for lunch and wished I 'd gone with Tremayne if only for the ride . |
| 25 | Like other young people , they want change if only for the sake of it . |
| 26 | This was a short-lived club , but important if only for the fact that it drew up the first Breed Standard in 1901 . |
| 27 | A malinger round the monument is worth your while , if only for the extraordinary view down Loch Shiel and to reassure yourself that you will soon be leaving behind all the people milling idly around their coaches , to whom 1745 means quarter to six . |
| 28 | It is not quite so important to duplicate the reel , but it is still wise , if only for the fact that your spare spools are interchangeable on both reels . |
| 29 | The term ‘ indiction ’ has been used earlier in this chapter , and although the system is unlikely to be encountered in isolation by a local historian it is worth recording , if only for the sake of completeness . |
| 30 | However , I prefer the bass Peter Harvey on Virgin , if only for the simply gorgeous noise he makes , sounding rather like a lyric tenor down half an octave . |