Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He returned to England in 1844 but was unemployed except for a brief tenure of the post of governor of the new prison in Birmingham in 1849–51 , before dismissal . |
| 2 | The benches are empty except for a solitary figure sitting huddled in a mackintosh , watching with fierce concentration . |
| 3 | The yard was empty except for a neat looking two-horse box and at the far end a large powerful motorbike . |
| 4 | I was in a round room , which was empty except for a large square computer . |
| 5 | The doors to the great white stone building that led to the palatial rotunda were open , the lobby empty except for a single security guard sitting and reading behind the circular information desk . |
| 6 | The field was empty except for a few ewes with young lambs . |
| 7 | Their Korean hosts were said to be upset at the way they barely acknowledged each other in public except for a few surly and petulant exchanges . |
| 8 | There was one there that was empty and for a long long while . |
| 9 | However , the really important area of application is to problems which would be linear but for a few ( separable ) nonlinear terms and here it can be very effective . |
| 10 | The secularisation of Holy Week and Easter now seems complete except for a faithful remnant of practising Christians — about 10 per cent of the population on most calculations . |
| 11 | David Boole of Jaguar Cars describes the medium-term as healthier than for a long time' . ’ |
| 12 | But the natives were friendly except for a few incidents in Skye . |
| 13 | Where the ground is frozen for most of the year , soils that contain water remain solid except for a brief spell each summer , when they thaw to a depth that varies with latitude and local conditions . |
| 14 | You can work full-time , part-time or for a few hours in the evenings . |
| 15 | The selection process is not unlike that for a giant multinational corporation , and those who win through have some similarities to corporate executives . |
| 16 | All was dark except for a tiny glimmer of red light . |
| 17 | Everything was dark except for a single patch where the moon shone through the skylight on to the wall . |
| 18 | This integrating combination has a long time-constant and for a momentary pulse output from IC2 does not allow the voltage across capacitor C5 to rise much above the ground . |
| 19 | His skin was like oiled silk , healthily tanned and smooth except for a light sprinkling of curly black hair . |
| 20 | When Kalchu came back his head had been shaved bald except for a short black tuft that arched out from the crown and drooped down behind . |
| 21 | The landlord , a thin ashpole of a man , completely bald except for a stray lock of hair which constantly drooped over his eyes , wiped his greasy hands on a dirty apron , served them and scurried off . |
| 22 | Colleagues , the Parliament of the European Community and of the United Kingdom have seriously considered the consequences of the spillage of eighty five thousand tons of oil from oil tanker which ran aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands on the fifth of January nineteen ninety three and for a considerable time socialists of the European Parliament have been complaining incessantly for greater safety at sea . |
| 23 | In addition , even though a fifth of total income is derived from occupational pensions , the vast majority of pensioners rely on social security either for all or for a significant proportion of their income : two-thirds of them receive 80 per cent or more of their income from this source . |
| 24 | Once the sailor has ‘ climbed the rigging ’ , which is usually an energetic process , he ‘ looks out ’ , remaining stationary except for a slight sway as the boat sails out of harbour . |
| 25 | Sir Hugo had been undistinguished except for a passionate , if ineffective , allegiance to his king . |
| 26 | A devastating result is a system for the post-16s that for a soi-disant modern technological society is grossly inadequate — if not near ludicrous by international comparison . |
| 27 | On other vases , especially on his favourite form , an egg-shaped amphora with narrow neck , like those used for prize oil at the Panathenaic games , he reaches the logical conclusion of this trend : a vase totally black except for a single figure on each side , without even a ground-line ( fig. 106 ) ; the figure is the whole decoration . |
| 28 | He opened the door to a large room completely bare except for a vast trestle-table that filled it from wall to wall . |
| 29 | The room was bare except for a ping-pong table on folding trestle legs . |
| 30 | He had blue eyes and his head was bare except for a few short grey hairs . |