Example sentences of "[conj] for the [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | If five peaks were set up they could provide the basis for the tentacles of hydra , or for the fingers in the early development of the human hand . |
| 2 | He hardly talked to any , except for the waiters in the hotel at Aix-les-Bains . |
| 3 | Her mother also favoured a small black number , while her father and Martin Parr were like twins , except for the differences in size and weight . |
| 4 | Although residential and day-care staff have been a priority target for training in many departments , the vast majority are untrained , except for the offices in charge . |
| 5 | In Acts 8 , I saw that for the converts in Samaria , although wonderfully converted and delivered from evil ( v 7 ) and baptised ( v 12 ) , there was still something missing . |
| 6 | This is particularly true of the value of votes for the smaller parties of the centre — the Liberal Party , the SDP and now the Liberal Democrats ; and of the value of votes for Labour in the South and for the Conservatives in the North and in Scotland . |
| 7 | At the same time , we have been able to achieve a dramatic reduction in inflation — which , because it is better than the European Community average , means that there are better prospects for exporting firms and for the jobs in them . |
| 8 | Then came the crowning blow for France and for the Catholics in Scotland . |
| 9 | These hints were followed up by many gentlemen : and I think I never saw Mr Loudon more pleased than when a highly respectable gardener once told him that he was living in a new and most comfortable cottage , which his master had built for him ; a noble marquess , who said that he should never have thought of it , but for the observations in Mr Loudon 's Gardener 's Magazine , as they made him consider whether the cottage was comfortable or not , and that , as soon as he did so , he perceived its deficiencies . |
| 10 | My concern is for the future , not just for ourselves , but for the children in our schools and colleges , and in all centres of education . |
| 11 | Ken Robinson , too , has successfully taken on the role of one-man interpreter , friend , challenger , articulator and spokesman not only for drama but for the arts in education generally ( 1980 and 1982 ) . |
| 12 | But for the activists in the Party and its affiliates , the integratory and mobilizing functions of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ were not confined to support for current attainments , but rested on the incorporation in Hitler of the ‘ idea ’ of Nazism itself , determining future utopias to be won as well as past glories achieved . |
| 13 | We could almost have forgotten about the war but for the shell-holes in the surrounding downland , stark white chalk amid the tawny grass , the result of gunnery practice on the artillery and tank ranges at Tidworth , Bulford , and at Larkhill , where I remembered Leslie had gone to a firing camp all those months ago . |
| 14 | As for the provisions in the social chapter , that would be a discipline that would reduce jobs . |
| 15 | As for the circumstances in which an auditor might come under a duty to report , the banking act as well as the financial services act and the insurance companies act , uses , use the phrase in his capacity as auditor , here again we have no powers to clarify this on the face of the regulations . |
| 16 | As for the curves in this selection , the C13 and C14 were not the same , and therefore the work that was possible with one tool could not be repeated on its mirror image with its counterpart . |
| 17 | As for the anthologies in which Byrd 's music appeared in his lifetime , several were explored on record years ago but are now forgotten . |
| 18 | A Character Ballet is one in which classical technique is discarded except where it is used to depict particular and usually fantastic characters as for the dolls in Petrushka and La Boutique Fantasque . |
| 19 | ‘ As for the terms in which St Paul expressed it — well , there you are he used any sort of figure that came to hand : he picked up a rhetorical metaphor from a cynic preaching in the market … . |
| 20 | As for the costs in the Factortame case ( Case C 221/89 ) , it should be held that the costs incurred by the Kingdom of Belgium , the Commission of the European Communities , the Federal Republic of Germany , the Kingdom of Spain , the Hellenic Republic , the Kingdom of Denmark , Ireland and the United Kingdom , which have submitted observations to the court , are not recoverable . |