Example sentences of "[subord] for [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Difficult you might have certain standards they must achieve , now for example er answer the telephones in three rings , answer your name and your department is that measurable ? |
| 2 | For the closing phrases , by which time she 'd completely lost it and was just plain screaming , we all fell silent , because it was awesome ; and then when she had finished the victim of her fury slowly exited right on cue in complete silence , complete silence except for Madame 's heavy breathing and the sound of Gary playing recitative on the piano , for he had been playing along under her rage all the time , as if to support it , as if this really was music to our ears . |
| 3 | Until they reached the outskirts of Teddington they drove in silence , except for Lorton 's directions and Tolby 's sniffs . |
| 4 | Tom Peters , Michael Porter and the venerable Peter Drucker — these and a handful of others , all American academics except for Britain 's Charles Handy , are the spiritual leaders of the business world , the high priests of management . |
| 5 | After a sleepy first half , almost everyone had nodded off , except for Rovers ' Peter Heritage , who nodded the ball on to a greatful Eddie Gormely . |
| 6 | Oh God I 've never smelt , I did n't wan na say anything but like I 've smelt anything so nasty in my life except for Patrick 's knob . |
| 7 | Director Terence Young was delighted to find that the two actors seemed intent on working seriously — except for Marvin 's first scene which followed a boozy lunch and featured an equally boozy Marvin . |
| 8 | No more was said except for Mum 's moans and groans as she struggled to get the bedding upstairs to the attic . |
| 9 | It gives voice to women who may never have been heard except for Klein 's encouragement . |
| 10 | Miss Rose admitted she did n't remember much of that day , except for Celia 's long labour — which I did know about , but it slipped my mind — so it 's possible she 's forgotten other deliveries during the day , when there were other midwives on duty . |
| 11 | Yes but A Yeah that 's alright erm except for examples we where do up to ? |
| 12 | The room had fallen deathly silent except for Cranston 's abrupt questions , the equally abrupt answers and the snapping and crackling of the logs in the fire . |
| 13 | Before the thunderclap echo of the last shot had died away , the clearing was empty , except for Grant 's motionless body . |
| 14 | I do n't know what to suggest except for God 's sake be careful . |
| 15 | Tubs of daffodils stood outside every shop , except for Fox 's Lair , where a pair of bay trees flourished in ceramic pots . |
| 16 | Except for Jensen 's book , none of the major works on testing written by professionals during the period was reviewed . |
| 17 | A similar effect of GR has been observed for the orbit of the binary pair containing the pulsar 1913+16 : the advance of the periastron ( the line joining the stars at their point of nearest approach ) of the pulsar orbit is , at 4° per year , considerably larger than for Mercury 's orbit . |
| 18 | Students spent a lot of time travelling ( walking and even running ) from one lecture to another in various parts of London , and it was increasingly demanded that they should find within the walls of the College all that they required , or that they should at least pay a fee that would entitle them as of right , rather than for charity 's sake , to enter medical lectures . |
| 19 | If for instance erm Fred Bloggs at the end of the office is sick on Friday he turns off his P C at lunchtime and goes home and we do the software upgrade during the afternoon on Friday , then his P C wo n't get the upgrade to the software because we 're sending it down the network . |
| 20 | my Lord , this is a problem which erm your Lordship 's had submissions from both parties and of course it goes to specialist separates , first of all one identifies , one takes one and strikes out the defending clauses within the agreements that infringe article eighty five on then applies the , the test of severance to see whether the residual agreements remain or stand , but we certainly have not depleted that the entire arrangement avoid but we pleaded the restrictions are avoid , my Lord er and that 's important because it could lead to consequence and we 're pleading it that and if for example er power in the erm standard form agency agreement was rendered void because it was an unlawful restriction , it does n't mean to say that erm an agent er a name might not of instructed an agent to write business , what we 're saying is they may not have instructed him to write all of the business that he did in fact did er write for example L M X spiral and , now if , if a particular defendant can say well have I been well you know proper position that I would of been and the restrictions not been in place I would of instructed the agent to do precisely what he did , then of course he has no defence , that 's a que that 's a point , if he says well erm I , the facts suggest and established that I would never , ever have allowed the agents to underwr to write L M X spiral business and , and the only reason he was able to do that was because of the restrictions then he can escape liability for that part of the business underwritten |
| 21 | For herself she was relieved she did n't have to struggle to harness their zippy , anarchic minds any more to a future of filing and fast food shoppers — till for Christ 's sake let's get married and turn on the telly and have some peace . |
| 22 | Whereas for Philips 's traveller the beauty of the landscape is the result of freezing rain , Leapor 's nymphs and swains actually ‘ Shun the cold Rains and bless the kinder Snow … |
| 23 | In the case of P A2b , we were unable to detect DNA-strand opening ( open complexes ) in linear templates if the initiating NTPs were omitted , while for P A3 DNA melting was clearly detectable in the absence of GTP and UTP . |
| 24 | Amsterdam attendance figures were higher , at 445,000 , while for Berlin 's Gemäldegalerie , where the exhibition was the first major show to be held in a united Germany , visitors reached 330,000 in two months . |
| 25 | Sleeves can be difficult , since for men 's and some women 's jumpers a straight sleeve may not be suitable . |
| 26 | The numbers might have been much more dramatic but for IBM 's long-term manpower planning , and some lessons learned from experience , like how to use cusions . |
| 27 | Historically Rainer is very valuable because there are several extremely important legal decisions of Innocent III which would not have survived but for Rainer 's collection . |
| 28 | Paige felt sorry for her ; they could so easily have been friends , but for Lori 's jealousy . |
| 29 | But for Whelan 's late goal , Wembley would have staged the first all-Second Division FA Cup Final on May 9 . |
| 30 | Opposite him Langford made some thundering tackles but then blotted his copybook with a stupid kick which , but for Underwood 's timely intervention , might have cost his side the match . |