Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Proceedings under the Settled Land Act 1925 , the Trustee Act 1925 or for the administration of the estate of a deceased person may be commenced in the court which the plaintiff regards as most convenient having regard to the residences or places of business of the parties or to the subject matter of the proceedings ( Ord 4 , r 4 ) , but payment into court under s 63 of the Trustee Act 1925 shall be made to the court in whose district the person ( or any of them ) making the payment resides ( Ord 49 , r 20(2) ) . |
| 2 | It is clear that for the banking sector as a whole , foreign currency business predominates . |
| 3 | It 's important to be clear that for the moment we are talking about the purchase of places in the private and voluntary sectors : in-house purchasing is not with us yet . |
| 4 | Every detail was clear except for the number-plate . |
| 5 | If they 've got any sense at all they should be I mean they 're getting it for free except for the telephone calls you might use |
| 6 | The hybridisation patterns are different except for the Eco RI fragment of 6.5 kb detected by both probes . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm afraid that for the moment , yes , the company would prefer you to resign . ’ |
| 8 | He picked up the canvas shoulder-bag , which was empty except for the map and a compass . |
| 9 | The dominance of the agro-export business and the patterns of land ownership are primarily to blame for this and for the abandonment of traditional , more ecologically sound , forms of cultivation and pest control . |
| 10 | What I want to , for you to do , is to pass this and for the C E C to look at providing some education specifically to the administration and the running of branches . |
| 11 | ‘ The Government must recognise that training is the way forward both for the long-term unemployed and for the business community . ’ |
| 12 | Away from industry , areas stacked up with chemicals , the Isle is raw and for the taking . |
| 13 | Why do the live birth figures for the last two quarters of 1985 and for the whole of 1985 appear as rounded thousands ? |
| 14 | It requires organisation and planning , as one group usually follows another and for the changeover to be smooth all departments must be working to maximum efficiency . |
| 15 | We will discuss a little later the emotions implications of this but for the moment we are reflecting on the practical issues that overwhelm the bereaved person . |
| 16 | This is a broad , catch-all term which ‘ gatecrashed the literature , thereby avoiding the entrance fee of a definition ’ ( Blackaby , 1979 , p. 2 ) ; the question of definitions is taken up in Chapter 2 but for the moment it is important to note that it is a misleading term for it is often used to describe the relative decline of manufacturing industry rather than industry as a whole which includes primary industries like mining , quarrying and oil and gas production and also includes construction and transport . |
| 17 | One night the black spring sky may be quiet and peaceful , empty but for the cicadas . |
| 18 | The place is empty but for the bar and three or four slightly-built lads shooting pool without words . |
| 19 | I am nothing but a stomach of cheap tin , empty but for the clanking of a few tin cans which have been squashed by a gargantuan hand and thrown together . |
| 20 | It was empty but for the Doctor , looking very smug , and the TARDIS . |
| 21 | Then he went , leaving the house empty but for the woman and the Overseer . |
| 22 | The story might have been different but for the Vietnam War . |
| 23 | Was it possible that for the sake of prayer and guidance of souls he had a calling to the unmarried state ? |
| 24 | Inclusion of the GFF and LPF into the bigram experiments appears to be less stable than for the trigram experiments — the number of top ranked correct words tends to drop for the bigram cases but remains almost constant for the trigram cases . |
| 25 | The wines are all bone dry except for the Vendage Tardives ( VTs ) , made from 100 per cent late-picked , super-ripe ( but not botrytised ) grapes , and the Selections de Grains Nobles ( SGNs ) made from 100 per cent botrytis-affected fruit — 1989 was a great year for both . |
| 26 | One example of this is that the CEGB 's engineering costs for a new coal plant are expected to be 16 per cent higher than for the completion of the coal-fired Drax power station while for a new AGR it expects engineering costs to be 20 per cent lower than for the Heysham II prototype . |
| 27 | But surprisingly prices in Northallerton were lower than for the County Durham pubs although overall Which ? found Yorkshire prices higher than in the North-East . |
| 28 | Sometimes the names of the authors of the report appear on the title page but , if the report is going out in the name of an organisation , it may be kept impersonal except for the signatures at the end . |
| 29 | Most look similar except for the frame material ; choose this to match your windows if possible . |
| 30 | Icelandic weather is really buggering me about , I decide , and conditions are now near perfect except for the metre of soft snow that lies over everything in sight . |