Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [subord] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They break the rules because Bawden cares less for rules than for the things he has to say about the feel of a summer morning , the watery sunshine of an April afternoon , or the flurry of a February snowstorm . ’ |
| 2 | Punters ' money might well have drifted towards Pakistan but for the uncertainty over Javed Miandad 's fitness . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh my boy , my boy , home at last ! ’ cried Mrs Clare , who at that moment cared no more for Angel 's lack of religion than for the dust on his clothes . |
| 4 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , wife of the Ambassador to the Sublime Porte in Constantinople , was so impressed with the results of this folk practice by the Sultan 's Greek subjects that she had her children treated and introduced fashionable society to its advantages in 1721 ; as much for the protection of complexion as for the preservation of health . |
| 5 | The answers that his analysis might produce were not intended for the enlightenment of participants but for the enlightenment of anthropologists . |
| 6 | The gamble has paid off , so tourists and faithful can now contemplate a moving image of the tormented body of the dead Christ in a remarkable state of conservation except for the loss of the skin colour pigments , which have been abraded down to the greenish underpainting . |
| 7 | England would have increased their margin of victory but for the heroics of Irish goalkeeper Linton who made several outstanding saves . |
| 8 | But inflated land prices , which have been rising much faster than the cost of living index , have placed even smallholdings out of reach except for the well-endowed . |
| 9 | Why should this principle be any less true for the development of the intellectual and moral faculties of man than for the other operations of nature ? |
| 10 | Do n't forget to fit a servicing valve just before the ballvalve and gatevalves to all the cold water feeds : these are connected after a short run of pipe except for the feed to the hot water cylinder , where the gatevalve is usually fitted in the airing cupboard near to the cylinder . |
| 11 | This is more a matter for the Secretary of State than for the courts . |
| 12 | The slender loins and wide shoulders kept their elegance of shape and movement , the skin was clear of wrinkles except for the lines of experience that had graved themselves into his face ; but the flesh was drying and withering now , hardening between weathered skin and shapely bone . |
| 13 | However , looking more closely at Fig. 6.5b , we see that in the cases and there is no chance that there are any trajectories which remain forever within the region of interest except for the homoclinic orbit itself at r = r* ; for all other trajectories the modulus of the a-coordinate increases on each pass through the top of B and so all trajectories eventually wander out of the region of validity of our analysis ( and , in fact , spiral into C1 or C2 ) . |
| 14 | It might have been better at Vladimir for Holly than for the zeks herded into the communal cell blocks , but he had learned to eat what food was provided . |
| 15 | Table 9 and Table 10 show that RFA is significantly greater for males than for the general population and from Table 8 that RFA is greater than for females . |
| 16 | They all roared with laughter except for the sneering man who suddenly grew fish-coloured and shouted and wagged his finger . |
| 17 | For example , in the 1985 Green Paper on the future of the universities ( altogether a somewhat hasty and ill-expressed document ) it was suggested that more money should be given to universities , and more places offered to students , for sciences than for the arts , and this policy is now being implemented , with considerable effect on the schools . |
| 18 | He managed to stay off alcohol because for the first time for a very long time he was truly afraid . |
| 19 | It is much harder to argue for an unclear and complicated arrangement for arriving at what is taught in schools than for the logic of a national curriculum . |
| 20 | Will my hon. Friend commend as compulsory reading part of our proceedings in Committee when for the first time hon. Members listened for two or two and a half hours to — |
| 21 | For both the buyer and the seller this tends to make sense , since it is more efficient for the seller to insure against the risk under an insurance policy covering the risk of damage to goods in transit than for the buyer to cover the goods under an all risks policy relating to his moveable property . |
| 22 | The point they are making is that , for the most part , people still vote more for political parties in Britain than for the individual candidate . |
| 23 | The walls were panelled in mahogany except for the fourth wall behind him . |
| 24 | There 's no health service in California except for the very poor , but most people carry insurance . |
| 25 | Equation ( 8.22 ) is the expression for the combinatorial entropy of mixing of an athermal polymer solution and comparison with equation ( 8.7 ) shows that they are similar in form except for the fact that now the volume fraction is found to be the most convenient way of expressing the entropy change , rather than the mole fraction used for small molecules . |
| 26 | William Laud , who along with the king directed ecclesiastical policy throughout the 1630s , had little interest in the struggles of his beleaguered co-religionists on the continent , and was far more concerned that money be raised for the repair of St Paul 's Cathedral in London than for the relief of Calvinist refugees from the Palatinate . |
| 27 | She awoke to find the room in darkness except for the glowing hearth . |
| 28 | It is less than this in the teeth from hen harrier pellets , less in fact than for the kestrel , but the type of digestion is similar . |
| 29 | Table 7 and 8 show that RFA is not so great for females as for the overall population , especially in the case of word recognition , which is not so significantly great . |
| 30 | She woke to find the room dim with approaching dusk , and without lights except for the glow of the fire . |