Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [subord] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The merging together of different financial institutions in this way to form ‘ one-stop multi-service financial supermarkets ’ would not have been possible but for the relaxation of certain types of regulatory barriers . |
| 2 | The high point was the abolition of capital punishment which , although finally decided by Parliament after free votes in both Houses in 1965 and 1969 , would not have been possible but for the long campaign , outside Parliament as much as inside , mounted by the penal reformers of the day . |
| 3 | The story might have been different but for the Vietnam War . |
| 4 | The hybridisation patterns are different except for the Eco RI fragment of 6.5 kb detected by both probes . |
| 5 | The fare increases would have been bigger but for the governments last minute intervention . |
| 6 | Ministers claim that accident rates on YTS are better than for the rest of the working population in that age group . |
| 7 | Again most of these stars are red , with spectral types of M , R , N or S. Their amplitudes are less than for the Mira stars , and usually amount to little more than a magnitude . |
| 8 | The engine seemed to be complete except for the obvious loss of the reduction gear and its housing . |
| 9 | Like everything else in elephant capture , this is a hazardous operation and would be impossible but for the presence of the trained koonkies . |
| 10 | This factor serves to distinguish driving cases from those of deaths resulting from a single punch , and also to bolster the argument that the penalties for the former should be higher than for the latter . |
| 11 | The minimum in the potential function will therefore be at a shorter internuclear distance , and the vibration frequency will be higher than for the molecule . |
| 12 | This man would be unidentifiable except for the inscription on Mary Freemantle 's tomb in the church at Hinton : ‘ Mary Freemantle , d. of John Newton Gent . |
| 13 | collective , institutionally mediated roles expressed in the structures of expectations are essential as for the transformation of regions into places [ i.e. collective concepts into individual ‘ action spaces ' ] , centres of feeling of belonging to time-space specific , more or less abstract reference groups or communities . |
| 14 | He said most PowerBooks models are available except for the top-end 180 and the new colour model 165C , still in short supply . |
| 15 | Charges are higher than for the society 's standard dealing system because the stockbroker can not itself be paid on the deal until the end of the stock exchange account , an average of 10 days ' delay . |
| 16 | By 1719 there were eleven , a figure which would have been higher but for the continuing war with Sweden and the very strained relations with Great Britain which then existed . |
| 17 | But surprisingly prices in Northallerton were lower than for the County Durham pubs although overall Which ? found Yorkshire prices higher than in the North-East . |
| 18 | The buildings were empty except for the occasional orderly and the Assistant Commissioner at the other end of the corridor , and sometimes Nikos working late , and he was able to get a lot of work done . |
| 19 | Doubtless the number of victims of this particular form of surgical homicide would have been greater but for the American Food and Drug Administration , whose officials promptly and wisely proscribed the procedure . |
| 20 | Ironically , the number of old people who were poor would have been greater but for the action of the Attlee Government . |
| 21 | Anyway , avoidance is unnecessary as for the most part it 's enjoyable . |
| 22 | The term y must be positive , and so the no-arbitrage price for futures on a geometric index is lower than for the corresponding arithmetic index . |
| 23 | Even though exactly the same letter form is used , same type form is used as for the f Good . |
| 24 | Although both the OALD and the re-indexed CED produce 70% correct choices , the z-score for the OALD is 2.15 whereas for the CED it is 0.98 . |
| 25 | The driver 's duty to accord precedence is absolute except for the circumstances mentioned in Burns v Bidder [ 1966 ] 3 All ER 29 . |
| 26 | Rear passengers perch high , which is fine except for the long-bodied , who have to duck the head to make the best of the view . |
| 27 | This implies that unc is diagonal except for the leading ( 2 × 2 ) submatrix . |
| 28 | All this is conventional except for the projection forward of present-day mechanisms and gadgetry . |
| 29 | If we divide each row through by its diagonal element , ( 1 ) becomes unc The leading matrix here is of the form I + C , where C is null except for the elements above the diagonal . |
| 30 | The transition to deceleration is slower than for the excitation jump method , because the motor torque only changes sign in response to a rotor movement , rather than an excitation change ; but the complication of decrementing tile step count is avoided . |