Example sentences of "[conj] for [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recipient Party further undertakes to the supplying Party that it will not during that period use the same except in or for the said purposes . |
| 2 | Natural science is happy to take a spectator 's view of the workings of nature , and any retreat , as in quantum theory in physics or for the philosophical reasons in the last chapter , is reluctant . |
| 3 | For someone like Anderson — or for the Tory activists Simpson heard chanting ‘ Privatise the BBC ’ outside Central Office — the case for dismemberment is clear . |
| 4 | Halfway through interviewing candidates is no time for governor discord or financial disagreements to surface , or for the true needs of the school to be hastily compromised . |
| 5 | As the State Department and the White House both set crisis management operations in train , and President Bush urgently conferred with top officials , FMLN statements — that the guests , except for the armed Americans , were not hostages and were free to go as soon as a ceasefire was arranged — were almost ignored . |
| 6 | Nor did the Nonconformity which had survived the later Stuart period serve much as a form of social control , except for the small numbers it served . |
| 7 | The group 's mail , except for the personal letters to band members , is usually opened by Sally Murrell , Gedge 's girlfriend and the band 's permanent secretary . |
| 8 | Agrippa 's face was round , cherubic , his features small and neat like those of a child , except for the hooded eyes and the look of sardonic amusement with which he watched everything about him . |
| 9 | Except for the stateless Palestinians , nobody else in the Middle East stands to gain more from peace . |
| 10 | We 're the younger members , except for the real littl'uns we 've got now . ’ |
| 11 | Some fifteen years ago , it was extended and now goes around the northern tip of the peninsula before turning south for a straight run down the west coast in bleak country , featureless except for the sad ruins of abandoned crofts yet relieved by glorious views across to Skye and the islands of the Inner Sound . |
| 12 | ‘ They 've given up boiler suits , ’ said Constance , ‘ some time ago — except for the pregnant ones , and that 's a mistake if you like . ’ |
| 13 | Nothing unusual or difficult here , except for the angled mortises for the front stanchions ( and later for the handlebar ) and the lashed joints . |
| 14 | Deserted — except for the sprawled corpses of the two murdered men , lying where death had struck them down . |
| 15 | Not a leaf moved , except for the dead leaves that Clare trod on . |
| 16 | In the immediate neighbourhood of The Milebrook were few families except for the local farmers , and for the first four years there we had no transport other than bicycles and a pony cart . |
| 17 | ‘ For years before he married Elizabeth I do n't think anyone came to the house except for the old men on Sunday after chapel . |
| 18 | Rindi , whose crew possessed only pressurized paraffin-lamps , asked to borrow our torch , and revealed with it a patch of silt floor a good thirty feet further down , as untrammelled as the bottom of the deep ocean trenches — except for the unmistakable tyre-tracks of several large pythons . |
| 19 | We lunched at the Royal Circle , immaculate and relaxed except for the restless pacings of the under-employed waiters . |
| 20 | Except for the jumping ones . |
| 21 | He failed to notice the borrowed things that the girls wore , looking around him instead in dumb bafflement : it was a wedding day , a shining moment in his life , and , except for the dressed children , it could be any ordinary day . |
| 22 | He pulled on the goggles but still there was nothing to see except for the red embers of a dying fire emanating from some unknown source . |
| 23 | The inhibition over fifth-century occupation has , and still does , clamp our thinking , except for the urban communities where evidence is a little more solid . |
| 24 | Except for the electric brae , that is . ’ |
| 25 | the shape of the radial shields ; 2. the granulation of the entire disk except for the radial shields ; 3. the widening of the arm beyond the disk . |
| 26 | The island 's coast is mainly rocky , but , except for the northerly crags , the coastal cliffs are low , thrusting out here and there into the sea to enclose small curved beaches . |
| 27 | The average relative abundances ( that is the means of the relative abundances for all skeletal elements except for the isolated teeth ) vary from 30.2 to 71.2 per cent for the seven barn owl samples ( Table 2.3 ) . |
| 28 | Before kinasing , the fusion proteins were cleaved with thrombin and purified away from GST ( 27 ) , except for the GST-GAL4 fusions , which were not cleaved . |
| 29 | Agreement with experiment is generally good except for the transverse properties which are sensitive to the choice of array and the method of calculation . |
| 30 | It is an unrelieved black except for the white flanks but a watcher catching it in the right light might see the head has an iridescent purple sheen which can be striking . |