Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The price for the first seems high and for the second low for a house with six acres and a lodge , but it used to be the headquarters of British Coal 's opencast mining subsidiary , which can not have done it any good . |
| 2 | Library membership runs from July 1st of year 1 to December 31st of year 2 and for the 1993/94 year costs £75 . |
| 3 | There was one there that was empty and for a long long while . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , while regarded by the vast majority of members as good , proper and for the immediate and ultimate improvement of professional standards , the concept was challenged on a number of points , though these challenges were directed against the logistics of the proposal rather than the philosophy . |
| 5 | 3.5 With effect from the Possession Date or ( if later ) the date on which the Tenant has obtained all Tenant 's Approvals the Tenant shall have licence and authority to enter upon the Premises for the purpose of carrying out the Tenant 's Works in accordance with clause 3.7 but for no other purpose The problem is that the words " but for no other purpose " could result in a period of non-user from the date of completion of the tenant 's works and the date of the completion of the lease ( see clause 1.15.2 ) and the clause should be amended as follows : |
| 6 | He was standing in his pyjamas in his bedroom , which was empty but for the usual furniture . |
| 7 | The car park was empty but for the elderly gentleman 's massive Ford , which was just crunching over the gravel towards the road , an old but impressive bronze Aston Martin which Charlotte supposed must belong to Gus — it sent him up a couple of notches in her regard — and the school bus , still stationary , boiling over with bored boys , and emitting a plaintive chorus of : ‘ Why are we waiting ? ’ |
| 8 | The roof of the City stretched away from him like a vast field of snow , empty but for the small group of officials who were gathered , heads bowed , beside the open hatchway . |
| 9 | Siobhan 's bedroom is empty but for the pink carpet , a bed with a pink bedspread and a chest of drawers rattling vacantly from some obscure , whining wind . |
| 10 | You can work full-time , part-time or for a few hours in the evenings . |
| 11 | We hasten to add that we adopt the above procedure without any deep reverence for psychiatric classification as such or for the psychiatric form of describing the person . |
| 12 | So he decides to be cautious and for the first few laps , he just sits and waits . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The ILN commenced publication in 1842 and for the better part of the 19th and early years of the 20th century enjoyed enormous popularity because it was able regularly to reproduce illustrations when the newspapers could not . |
| 15 | Compare these potential losses with the fall due to the recession , estimated by the Henley Centre for Forecasting at 9% in 1990 and a further 6% in 1991 but for the national press at 11% in 1990 and a further 12% in 1991 ( Media Week 8.7.91 — and the recession will be coming to an end by the time any tobacco advertising ban is introduced . |
| 16 | This must be achieved as well as possible and for the best price . |
| 17 | The new trolleybus service was numbered 654 and for the first time there was a through service crossing the main road at West Croydon . |
| 18 | I 'm a widow of 70 and for the past eight years there 's been a very persistent man in my life . |
| 19 | It also becomes more specific and for the higher potencies the remedy selection has to be more accurate for the remedy to work . |
| 20 | Early on a wet Sunday morning outside Yaroslavl station , in the centre of Moscow , my journey was complete and for the first time in 10 days I was alone . |
| 21 | And should the conditions about availability of , or taking of , food be national or for the local Licensing Justices to attach as appropriate when granting the Children 's Certificate ? |
| 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 | I was totally conscious and for the first time since my labour started I felt relaxed . |
| 24 | Troubled by a cold and a painful left shoulder , he managed only a 73 and for the third time in four starts missed the cut . |
| 25 | But the question had been unwelcome and for the first time some of his cockiness seemed to have drained from him . |
| 26 | The usual convention , followed in this example , is to place the largest , slice on the left and for the other slices to be drawn in descending order . |
| 27 | She withdrew immediately , retreating into her corner of the bench , her face expressionless but for the suspicious sidelong glance she sent him . |
| 28 | We fished stuff out of the trashcans in Washington Square Park , a sandwich , an apple intact but for the missing bite , then to the Superette for nickels and dimes . |
| 29 | The door was locked , the room unlit but for the faint glow of a small screen to one side of the desk . |
| 30 | ‘ Today 's game is only of relative importance , not just because it is a friendly but for the good reason that today 's Argentina bears little resemblance to the one that will play in next summer 's finals . |