Example sentences of "[subord] for the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 3 ) Where for the purposes of insolvency proceedings any process or order of the court , or other document , is required to be served on a person who is not in England and Wales , the court may order service to be effected within such time , on such person , at such place and in such manner as it thinks fit , and may also require such proof of service as it thinks fit . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If we divide each row through by its diagonal element , ( 1 ) becomes unc The leading matrix here is of the form I + C , where C is null except for the elements above the diagonal . |
| 4 | I ca n't think of anything except for the biscuits because I 've run out of biscuits . |
| 5 | Except for the cases of perfectly inelastic demand or supply curves , the imposition of taxation will involve an excess burden which will typically ( like the incidence itself ) be felt in some proportion by consumers and producers alike . |
| 6 | He hardly talked to any , except for the waiters in the hotel at Aix-les-Bains . |
| 7 | However , in no case will we cancel your holiday less than 8 weeks before the scheduled departure date , except for the reasons detailed in Conditions ( 3 ) and ( 7 ) . |
| 8 | In practice , only approximate figures can be obtained , except for the sources which are major individual contributors to the overall emission in an area and therefore subject to more precise measurement . |
| 9 | PERHAPS we are the only definable group , except for the landladies , who look forward to conference at all , conference and elections being the only points in the calendar when our lives become primed with meaning . |
| 10 | The slender loins and wide shoulders kept their elegance of shape and movement , the skin was clear of wrinkles except for the lines of experience that had graved themselves into his face ; but the flesh was drying and withering now , hardening between weathered skin and shapely bone . |
| 11 | This is an identical result to the one just described ( Fig. 3.1 ) for the maximum bone count , but it provides additional information that there is considerable bone loss more or less evenly spread across the mammalian skeleton ( except for the phalanges and metapodials ) . |
| 12 | He and Rosie were both impressed by the loose creance work I was doing , so I took a deep breath and removed all the equipment , except for the jesses . |
| 13 | Great excitement ( except for the Indians who ignored it all ) . |
| 14 | Often visitors to Paris used the good offices of their embassies or legations to procure an invitation , for on these occasions there were no formal presentations to the Emperor or the Empress , except for the Ambassadors and their wives . |
| 15 | He beamed and in a while went on , ‘ Except for the engineers , the same crew will stay with the train to Vancouver ! ’ |
| 16 | Her mother also favoured a small black number , while her father and Martin Parr were like twins , except for the differences in size and weight . |
| 17 | Add all the other ingredients except for the mushrooms . |
| 18 | Except for the Albanians , each of the main nationalities of the Balkans had now , therefore , a territorial core of its own . |
| 19 | It was empty now , except for the bits of string and wood that the nomes had used . |
| 20 | ‘ Except for the findings of the inquest . ’ |
| 21 | In other words , the lights were off in the living-room except for the strobes around the disco where a lonely DJ was pumping out Frankie Goes to Hollywood , and all the guests at the party were in the kitchen cluttering up the fake oak worksurfaces and obscuring the Neff oven . |
| 22 | The driver 's duty to accord precedence is absolute except for the circumstances mentioned in Burns v Bidder [ 1966 ] 3 All ER 29 . |
| 23 | Writing about the passage of the Bill through Parliament , Nigel Warner suggests that the net result of the fact that Abse 's Bill merely amended earlier legislation prohibiting homosexual behaviour , rather than repealing it , is that such behaviour remains unlawful , except for the circumstances included in the new Act , and he quotes Norman St John Stevas ' recognition of this fact . |
| 24 | erm The response has been for that authority then to groin its bit of beach , and so we end up with a situation today where along the Sussex coast practically the whole of the coast is groined , except for the areas which are backed by high cliffs , erm where we have the sorts of rates of erosion that I mentioned . |
| 25 | Each user-supplied entry line ( except for the keywords HEADER-FORMAT-IS , MODULE-TYPE-IS , MODULE-NAME-IS , TITLE-IS and DESCRIPTION-LINES-ARE ) must be indented by at least two spaces from the initial keyword position , but there is no restriction on the position of other fields within the same entry . |
| 26 | Each user-supplied entry line ( except for the keywords HEADER-FORMAT-IS , MODULE-TYPE-IS , MODULE-NAME-IS , TITLE-IS , and DESCRIPTION-LINES-ARE ) must be indented by at least two spaces from the initial keyword position , but there is no restriction on the position of other fields within the same entry . |
| 27 | Each user-supplied entry line ( except for the keywords HEADER-FORMAT-IS , MODULE-TYPE-IS , MODULE-NAME-IS , TITLE-IS , and DESCRIPTION-LINES-ARE ) must be indented by at least two spaces from the initial keyword position , but there is no restriction on the position of other fields within the same entry . |
| 28 | Except for The Rescuers . |
| 29 | The Terms Nos 1 – 8 listed as applying to " small claims " procedure all apply where an outside arbitrator is appointed , except for the powers under Ord 17 exercisable by a district judge on a pre-trial review ( see notes on " Pre-Trial Review " ) . |
| 30 | Although by law hire purchase advertising had to be ‘ accurate ’ , there was no reporting process to make this more effective than a formality ( except for the efforts of individual weights and measures inspectors who became concerned about credit provision when their duties were extended by the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 to cover a very wide range of consumer affairs ) . |