Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is easier for the lecturer to write than for the student to look at a distant blackboard and then back to his so-called " notes " , and so a phase difference develops between the blackboard and the class . |
| 2 | Is everything in Venice frozen except for the canals ? ’ she asked wickedly . |
| 3 | During this declamation the rest of the audience departed except for the North Sea Gas lady who , when the poet finished , resumed her enquiry about her original subject . |
| 4 | Initially he was responsible for continuing the restorations begun by Hicks , including Turnworth Church — entirely rebuilt except for the tower — and St Juliot . |
| 5 | It could never have been designed but for a revolution that has shaken up one of the world 's oldest industries |
| 6 | But whereas Hitchcock was to thrive in business selling a vast number of spinets , of which a great many survive , William Smith would be quite forgotten but for the chance survival of this one harpsichord . |
| 7 | Superficially it might have appeared as though two brawny giants , immobilised but for the sway of their torsos , were about to jab and slash at one another , piercing and flaying till the vampire bat device decided that sufficient flesh had been sliced , that sufficient blood had coagulated in slim cinnabar threads . |
| 8 | They would long ago have vanished but for the fact that a powerful tide daily takes most of this pollution out to sea . |
| 9 | In the case of carers who have their own children this is easier to see than for the classic ( and disappearing ) case of the single daughter who was presumed to be childless ; although in that case the assumption in the past was that the single daughter would be rewarded in material terms through being the major beneficiary of her parents ' will , if they had money or property to bequeath . |
| 10 | An hour later every room was spick and span except for the bedroom Penry was using . |
| 11 | The watch is British made except for the movement which comes from the best Swiss supplier . |
| 12 | Quinn sat on the floor , his back against the hard wall , and would have dozed but for the questions from Simon . |
| 13 | When the police were billeted in the colliery , the safety men came to work , which they would not have done but for the presence of the police . |
| 14 | The right course , so the argument runs , is to do what the Attorney-General would have done but for the reverses suffered in the extradition proceedings , namely to postpone the Barclays ( Asia ) and West L.B. trials until B.M.F.L. is out of the way . |
| 15 | The information had also been disclosed in confidence to another shareholder who was using if for the purpose of making a bid for the plaintiff company . |
| 16 | The idea was so daft she would have laughed except for the Captain 's searing glance , which rested for no more than a second on her before returning to burn into Midnight as he breathed : |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Or you could buy dresses , one or two dresses that were all complete except for the seam down at the back and the seams under the arms . |
| 19 | It is useful , as a guide , for the staff to decide how much time it intends overall to devote to different subject areas , and what the pattern of delivery will look like for the learner . |
| 20 | We 've also developed some sense of patterns of timing — a sense of what a typical week and a typical term might look like for the learner . |
| 21 | ‘ I can suppress if for a time . |
| 22 | Remember that what your reader wants is not all the facts that a real-life situation would involve but only what I call the " fiction-facts ' , those pieces of information that are necessary not for the situation in the real world you might be describing but for the story you are telling . |
| 23 | ‘ … 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 . ’ |
| 24 | This basic test is whether the damage would not have occurred but for the breach of duty . |
| 25 | It will cover any expenses reasonably incurred and any loss of benefit which you might reasonably be expected to have had but for the dismissal . |
| 26 | yes in little booklets but it was actually homework at , it was produced but for the school , had a school name and crest so |
| 27 | There could have been further scoring but for the woodwork which firstly denied Joe Miller after he had beaten Dariusz Wdowczyk and John Collins . |
| 28 | There could have been further scoring but for the woodwork which firstly denied Joe Miller after he had beaten Dariusz Wdowczyk and John Collins . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , he obtained a Commission in the Regular Army before the Great War of 1914 — 1918 , in which he was wounded by a sniper 's bullet through a lung , and would have died but for the fact that one of his men , having also been wounded , fell on top of ‘ Monty ’ and thereby , protected him from further sniper bullets until darkness permitted rescue to be made . |
| 30 | A dual simplex iteration returns to P2/T5 except for the resource column , which has . |