Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could never have been designed but for a revolution that has shaken up one of the world 's oldest industries |
| 2 | The fact that the Anonymous Fellowships are not run by the medical profession does not mean that they do not exist or that they do not work except for a handful of rather strange zealots . |
| 3 | ‘ I can suppress if for a time . |
| 4 | ‘ … shall not be treated as due to the fault of the person suffering it by reason only that he could have prevented it by fencing ; but [ the defendant ] is not liable … where it is proved that the straying of the livestock on to the land would not have occurred but for a breach by any other person , being a person having an interest in the land , of a duty to fence . ’ |
| 5 | Asterix might never have been born but for a chance meeting in 1951 with another cartoonist , Rene Goscinny , at the Paris offices of a Belgian newspaper syndicate . |
| 6 | She rode light in the water despite the extra armour-plate around her bridge and forming fences amidships to protect her commando landing parties where they would crouch on her final run but she was carrying a minimum of fuel and water and her guns were gone except for a 12-pounder forward and oerlikons on the bridge wings . |
| 7 | It can not be easily defined except for a willingness to experiment and change direction , a confidence , perhaps , in hesitancy . |
| 8 | They were all three at the table where they had been sitting at a meal , the curry soup before them , a dreadful static group , posed as for a stage set . |
| 9 | Remember , though , that the same planning and building rules apply as for a kit garage ; and the job will almost certainly cost you more than a kit garage would . |
| 10 | This stretch is attractive at first , with Christ Church Meadow on one side and a cricket pitch on the other , but as it approaches the larger river the Cherwell divides into two channels separated by a flat overgrown island , deserted except for a row of college boathouses . |
| 11 | Sir Thomas 's chamber , deserted except for a bed , table , and other sticks of furniture was , surprisingly , open . |
| 12 | It was deserted except for a group sitting round one table being served ale by the frightened proprietor . |
| 13 | The man was clad in midnight blue silk and his head was shaved except for a queue of black hair which was coiled on top of his scalp . |