Example sentences of "[conj] for the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Designed long ago , the defences of Famagusta consisted of towers and wallwalks , battlements and arrow slits , without proper seating for cannon , or for the ventilation that cannon demanded . |
| 2 | What evidence can be gleaned for the ‘ Queen Margaret ’ school , or for the counter-argument that such changes are largely a matter of style rather than substance , by examining the procedure and mechanics of government since 1979 ? |
| 3 | That discretion would not be exercised reasonably if no reasonable Minister could conclude that the issuing of the warrant was necessary in the interests of national security or for the prevention or detection of crime . |
| 4 | The expression ‘ dishonestly appropriates ’ in clause 1(1) means the same as ‘ fraudulently converts to his own use or benefit , or for the use or benefit of any other person ’ in [ the Larceny Act 1916 , section ] 20(1) ( iv ) ; but the former expression is shorter and , we hope , clearer . |
| 5 | A feature of such stories is their selectivity , for they omit to mention the number of part-time reserve police who are unemployed or in low-status employment , or who sign up for mercenary reasons or for the power and respect that they believe accompanies the uniform . |
| 6 | Dostoevsky had no use for the two peasants or for the hood and the cudgel , but he wanted the cap . |
| 7 | Nobody in the SDLP criticised Currie for his espousal of Thatcherism or for the fact that he stood against and defeated a Labour candidate to get into the Dail . |
| 8 | ( 1 ) Where an application is made for a new licence , or for the renewal or permanent transfer of a licence , by an applicant who is not an individual natural person , the following provisions of this section shall apply . |
| 9 | ( 4 ) An applicant for the grant of a new licence , including the provisional grant of such a licence , or for the renewal or permanent transfer of a licence may appeal to the sheriff against a refusal of a licensing board to grant , renew or transfer the licence , as the case may be . |
| 10 | In recent years they have been streamlined to the point where they are totally identical , except for the name and the cover . |
| 11 | Central to their economic strategy was a commitment to reduce public expenditure ( except for the law and order budget ) and the breaking of the power of the trade unions . |
| 12 | There are no committee members , no officers , and no hard plans for the future , except for the hope that the people at this meeting will go out and spread the word in other parts of the country . |
| 13 | ‘ No one , except for the parson and the undertaker 's men . |
| 14 | He picked up the canvas shoulder-bag , which was empty except for the map and a compass . |
| 15 | It was like a dance without music , silence through the whole barn except for the tapping and the quiet thud of the hoofs . |
| 16 | This meant that on the blonde version the entire bass — body , neck and fingerboard — was light-coloured wood , except for the scratchplate and the front of the headstock . |
| 17 | Seems reasonable , except for the fact that he has n't cut the mortises for the mullions . |
| 18 | It 's terrible if you take a lot of it because it 's just bad for your personality — not for your health , except for the fact that you get thin . |
| 19 | Well , that was all fine and dandy , except for the fact that there was n't one sign in clones for the Kilturk checkpoint . |
| 20 | When it landed , the Americans had no steps tall enough to reach it , a gratifying start except for the fact that the Chairman of the Council of Ministers and his party had to climb down an emergency ladder hand over hand . |
| 21 | Except for the fact that she is n't meant to be Jewish , we are in stock Jewish-mother territory . |
| 22 | In February 1756 reference is made to four illustrations ‘ sent some time since by our friend , Mr. Collinson ’ and Miller said he would have sent others except for the fact that he had been waiting for better colourists . |
| 23 | A and B might well have features in common from the outset ( the c elements in the figure ) and these will produce primary generalization — training on A will give associative strength to stimulus elements that are present also in B. The X representation functions in just the same way as the c elements in producing generalization except for the fact that the ability of A and B to activate X is based on prior conditioning . |
| 24 | A third possibility connected with the idea that life on Earth originated from space is manifestly a nonsense — except for the fact that some remarkably distinguished scientists have supported it , the most recent of them being Francis Crick , winner with lames Watson and Maurice Wilkins of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work in unravelling the structure of DNA , the ‘ double helix ’ . |
| 25 | Then , in the early part of this century , the quantum theory appeared ; its details need not concern us except for the fact that it implied that all forms of matter and energy came in tiny discrete packages called quanta ( by ‘ discrete ’ is meant that you can not have half a quantum ) . |
| 26 | It was good fun except for the fact that it was extremely cold and we had the wrong Bethlehem carol sheet . |
| 27 | Except for the fact that they have the boat , they do n't seem to be obvious candidates for a really good time . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The bare infinitive expresses a possibility which was not realized in this use and is therefore conceived in the same way as it is with the modal auxiliaries , as a mere potential , except for the fact that no particular form of potentiality is attributed to it . |
| 30 | This would be a consumer sale except for the fact that the goods are not consumer goods within the meaning of s 12(1) ( c ) . |