Example sentences of "[conj] for the [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Dostoevsky had no use for the two peasants or for the hood and the cudgel , but he wanted the cap . |
| 3 | In recent years they have been streamlined to the point where they are totally identical , except for the name and the cover . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ No one , except for the parson and the undertaker 's men . |
| 6 | He picked up the canvas shoulder-bag , which was empty except for the map and a compass . |
| 7 | It was like a dance without music , silence through the whole barn except for the tapping and the quiet thud of the hoofs . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The body 's asleep , drunk , inert except for the arm and the hand . |
| 10 | Except for the drumming and chanting coming from the temple , and the photo display of the horrors of VD which had attracted a huge audience of twelve-year-olds . |
| 11 | All thoughts and concepts , at least , except for the stranger and his blue box . |
| 12 | Just such a perspective was provided by the New Testament , the gospel of good news , with its doctrines of incarnation , resurrection and atonement , which separated Christians from Jews and in the process did away with the shadow-land of Sheol , except for the heathen and the damned . |
| 13 | Disabled access is available at all venues except for the Hospitium and Bedern Hall . |
| 14 | When he went inside , the place was deserted except for the barman and Devlin at the piano . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , the savage wretches had no use for paper money , nor for the apparatus and infrastructure of a moneyed society . |
| 16 | Such clichés fill her first speech of welcome to Wilekin with a set of offers that for the reader and writer are ironically naive in the context of which we are aware : ( " If you like , come and sit , and what your will is , let me know , my dear life . |
| 17 | This kind of accommodation would have been more suitable for the servants than for the owner and his family . |
| 18 | Prior to the passing of the SGSA , s 7(4) of the UCTA prevented exclusion of liability for breach of warranties of title and quiet possession " arising by implication of law " ( see s 7(1) ) , in business contracts ( other than for the sale and hire purchase of goods ) under which possession or ownership of goods was transferred , unless such exclusion passed the test of reasonableness . |
| 19 | Rosewood is also the choice for the fingerboard , although for the neck and headstock Encore have opted to use a single piece of sakura . |
| 20 | Particular provisions were made for first offenders and for the treatment and rehabilitation of addicts . |
| 21 | The Declaration outlines proposals for the lifting of censorship , the maintenance of press freedom , and for the funding and support of non-governmental publications . |
| 22 | Conditions were thus ripe by the height of the emancipation campaign in the late 1820s and early 1830s for the cheap and rapid production of vast quantities of antislavery material and for the expansion and relative cheapness — and consequent probable expansion in readership — of newspapers . |
| 23 | Finishing school DECORATIVE painters James Kerr and Alistair Erskine , whose commissions include work at St James 's Palace and for the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch , are sharing their skills . |
| 24 | There will be targets for waiting times , for answering calls and for the promptness and accuracy of benefit payments and customer satisfaction surveys will be carried out . |
| 25 | He thanked the Institute and the Tax Committee — now the Faculty 's technical committee — for their positive and constructive role in the development of the tax system over the years and for the thought and effort put into representations . |
| 26 | He knew what was right for us and for the country and he said it . |
| 27 | Which , Dorothea had often thought , they probably were , and really , she had half-envied Alida , not for her independence but for the responsibility she had , and for the pride and satisfaction she was entitled to feel in her work . |
| 28 | John Barker was paid £22 : Os. 0d. for the painting and glazing , and for the survey and drawings George Robinson received £2 : 12s. : 6d . |
| 29 | Their approach , however , inevitably raised further questions both about the assumptions on which it was based , and about the implications for the standing of the Bible and for the uniqueness and distinctiveness of Christianity of this kind of historical comparison with non-biblical sources . |
| 30 | Detailed clauses ensured that ( i ) the President once elected could not be a member of a political party ; ( ii ) the military were denied seats in the Senate ; ( iii ) members of the Securitate and militia bodies guilty of repression and public officials guilty of abuses were not eligible for election ; ( iv ) candidates for election to the Assembly of Deputies had to be over 21 years of age and for the presidency and Senate over 30 , with no upper age limit ; ( v ) prisoners and the mentally handicapped were not eligible for election or to vote ; ( vi ) independent candidates were eligible to stand for the Senate and Assembly if supported by at least 250 electors and for the presidency if supported by 100,000 electors ; ( vii ) the votes of Romanian citizens abroad via diplomatic missions , consulates or trade agencies would be treated as votes cast in the city of Bucharest ; ( viii ) the financing of political parties from abroad was forbidden ; ( ix ) strict procedures would be applied to check and validate nominations ; ( x ) hours of polling would be from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m . |