Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have never been a part of Middlesbrough , except that for the Post Office 's convenience that town is used as an addition to their postal address . |
| 2 | All the trees , so large now as to enclose this garden , excluding the sight of other houses , so that but for the complex of railway lines it might have been in the country , were in late summer leaf . |
| 3 | Ruth felt sure that but for the presence of their parents they would have stuck out their tongues . |
| 4 | For example , if it is thought that an error of law or fact or a breach of natural justice should justify quashing only if it can be said that but for the error or breach the decision would have been different , this should be built into the definition of the relevant ground of review and not dealt with as a matter of remedial discretion . |
| 5 | The plaintiff must prove that but for the breach of statutory duty he would not have suffered the injury . |
| 6 | The medical evidence establishes that but for the accident , Fred would probably not have committed suicide . |
| 7 | El Cid replied , modestly , that he was only equal to one man at a time , and that as for the rest it was up to God . |
| 8 | you make your sound and you carry on and on and on , I 'm gon na keep on taping different people 's make their sound and then we 're gon na see what it feels like you 're in hospital , okay , now it does n't matter if somebody 's got the same sound as somebody else , it 's no big deal , alright , because eventually they 'll all blend into each other , but as soon as I 've tapped you , make your sound , alright patients , come on where 's the machines ? okay , stop , now when did it start becoming out of hand ? , at one stage we did n't really know where we were to , once , once I say ten people , okay , and that was also due to the fact that we had perhaps too many erm patients moaning , alright , it was good in one respect because why , it made obvious that we were in a , a hospital well something like , but erm when you 're in smaller groups and you 're making your sound machines , obviously it 's much easier to control and to make the overall sound more realistic , do n't you think ? , so , mm , what we 're going to do is we 're going to get into different groups , into groups of four , five , no big deal , you 're welcome to only if you want to , and , you 're going to , each group is going to choose er a profession , okay , you can be brick layers , you can be er musicians , er you can be er gardener , I mean absolutely you can be factory workers , you can be absolutely anything , and what you 're going to do is you 're going to choose , each person will choose a sound which is represented of that particular person , er profession , okay , and you 'll going to make your sounds simultaneously so that as for the audience who are simply listening to you can just close our eyes cos we wo n't , you wo n't be acting you 'll be making these sounds and using , we 'll close our eyes and we 'll know exactly where we are , okay , and then after that once we 've done that just , before you choose your profession to know what this is going to lead onto , after that we 're going to put movements to that profession , so when , if you were in a factory going er putting bottles on , on top top of bottles , you would have the movements going and you would have the sound going and I want you to build up , up , the sound machine which becomes the movement machine as well , so you 're almost robotic so you , shh , shh , or whatever , however your sound , and each person does their thing in the factory or where ever they are and we will be able to see from listening and looking at the movements and obviously remember just because you 're not an example it does n't mean you ca n't talk , there might be for instance there would be a doctor going stand back , stand back , you know , er , in , in the you can use voices , but also obviously very , very effective to have sound voices , shh , shh , to create that part of it , have instruments , but this is how they actually started lay down sound tracks for movies , people specialize |
| 9 | I 'd always thought it would be embarrassing to have a man undress you , especially the suspenders which are so ugly and comic , but I helped , and except for the girdle which must be the most resistant , unromantic garment since the chastity belt , it was all easy and delightful . |
| 10 | And if for the time being , that 's a high price , then that is one of the things that we 've got to accept as part of what 's going on in the Gulf , however painful that may be . |
| 11 | Both of these measures had been under discussion for a number of years , and but for the war there is every reason to believe they would have been enacted earlier . |
| 12 | And as for the way he used to order you around — ’ |
| 13 | Truly I make but a stammering companion , I have no graces , and as for the wit you may have perceived in me when we met , you saw , you must have seen , only the glimmerings and glister of your own brilliance refracted from the lumpen surface of a dead Moon . |
| 14 | ‘ Of witnesses we have no need , and as for the evidence , why … four barrels of brandy obligingly carried in by the accused themselves . |
| 15 | ‘ And as for the idea that I am being some how manipulated all I can say is that I do n't know about the other girls but I have been in a similar industry — television , for the last couple of years and now I know how it works . |
| 16 | There is nothing that is infinitely irresistible nor that is truly immovable , and as for the idea of a ‘ substance impossible to contain' — that , I decided , was a fiendish invention designed to get me into a muddle as I was sure that such a substance would be a manifest impossibility in practice . |
| 17 | Dogs Today 's most talented dog star , Emma , impressed the crowd with her routine of tricks , and as for the singing dogs — read about that elsewhere ! |
| 18 | And as for the delay in writing , do n't you have any idea how time-consuming it is , looking after someone who 's been paralysed by a stroke ? ’ |
| 19 | And as for the law ? |
| 20 | The new novelists , in any case , were nothing like under-privileged ; and as for the welfare state , it had been founded by the Asquith government after 1908 and was new , by the 1950s , only by recent extension . |
| 21 | Metalheads had Donington , goths had the Electric Ballroom , Stranglers fans had each other and as for the rest , well , too bad . |
| 22 | Bright eyes and bushy tails are at a distinct premium among this bunch , and as for the brotherhood of man , their idea of that is that if someone disagrees with you , you kill him . |
| 23 | And as for the Jew , no one can deny that his whole history is one of bitterness , persecution , and tragedy . |
| 24 | And as for the drinking , that should have been obvious to anyone . |
| 25 | Opening Poole 's letter on a visit to Bristol City Library , he began at once to write the first of two wildly intemperate replies : the country round Iron Acton was ‘ intolerably flat ’ ; Bristol contained no friends of his beyond Cottle and Estlin ( Wade was going away ) ; and as for the cottage , he would make it do . |
| 26 | And as for the betting , the only winners were the bookies . |
| 27 | ‘ And as for the Bulldog , I hear that his wife takes him for walks at night to stop him making a mess . |
| 28 | I know that the sages often give conflicting advice , that the shrub or bush that you are about to prune looks nothing like the diagram in your hand , and as for the picture on the seed packet — well , enough said , but you do learn from their experience and your own what will and wo n't do well in your particular spot and even , if it does n't sound too fanciful , for your own particular temperament . |
| 29 | And as for the putter — ’ |
| 30 | But no , Jessie had to be something else ; Jessie had to be sent to the Secretarial School : no getting her hands sticky from the toffee hammer , breaking up the slabs in the long tins ; no weighing out a ha'p'orth of hundreds and thousands or a penn'orth of sugar baccy ; and as for the weighing out of the real baccy , of hard cut or shag or even serving the best cigars , oh no , oh no , her father was having Jessie do nothing like that . |