Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will be clear that for this approach an artefact which already embodies a categorization process is clearly distinguished from a natural object which does not . |
| 2 | His skin was clear except for some roughness and a certain redness at the major joints . |
| 3 | In the centre of Cheapside stood the stocks , empty except for one person , a large , fat man , his head securely clasped between the wooden slats . |
| 4 | It 's empty except for this man and woman . |
| 5 | There is then a wonderful opportunity for those who have survived , because the field is clear and for some time newcomers are chary of entering it . |
| 6 | It was , therefore , all the more depressing for the Taylors to find colour more of a front-page issue than the fact that John raised nearly £1 million for Cheltenham 's unemployed and for local crime prevention . |
| 7 | Er I think we must remind ourselves that er this year 's as I say is by no means er generous and for that reason we 're not aiming higher , not because we would n't like to , but because we recognize the , the restrictions placed from elsewhere . |
| 8 | There was murder within marriage because a husband or a wife wanted life to be different and for one reason or another could find no other way to bring that about . |
| 9 | ‘ Many companies , however successful , tend to be somewhat inbred and for this reason people often welcome an injection of new thinking into their affairs . ’ |
| 10 | ( Is it possible that for some reason , such as disease , the manpower became too weak to handle these massive stones ? |
| 11 | Now , I leave entirely on one side the question why on earth the present ratio between profits and incomes generally is so supremely right that for all time it ought to be preserved , or at any rate allowed only to diminish , regardless of anything else that happens , such as the growth of savings and accumulation of capital . |
| 12 | Ian Rock , the chief executive , said yesterday : ‘ The group 's position is more stable than for some time , but it still requires a substantial improvement in the economy and a solution to the group 's gearing before it can achieve satisfactory returns on shareholders ’ funds . ’ |
| 13 | They tend to think of profits as being directly related to the volume of sales and find it confusing that for one year the reported sales are higher than the previous year but the reported net profit is lower . |
| 14 | He did not need a stick at this time , for he was feeling better than usual , and his skin would have passed for normal except for some roughness here and there easily attributable to the chafing of clothes or to taking too many baths in hard water without the benefit of bottled body oils sold by any chemist worth the name . |
| 15 | The course will usually be less technical and more flowing than for pure showjumping and different penalties are incurred : |
| 16 | ‘ As I say , straightforward except for one clause which commits Supersight to market a range of putters if Harley wins the British Open . |
| 17 | The situation is so serious that for any government to do what is necessary , it will have to be hated . |
| 18 | I must say that I really enjoyed my time in the RAF and I 'm convinced that for National Serviceman , the Air Gunner 's trade was the best way to complete the compulsory Armed Service requirement of the time . |
| 19 | At the time , neither Ruskin Road nor the following Beynon Road had been made up or developed and for some time , the trams ran on what in effect was reserved track . |
| 20 | In the broadest sense , the Soviet triumph was a confirmation of the strength of Socialist society : a triumph which would have proved impossible but for mass mobilisation , centralised control and the military-industrial recovery which they produced ; but this triumph also required a regime capable of decisive action against its internal opponents . |
| 21 | was as perfect as for any building that he ever saw erected ; and as for the light he thought it was rather overdone than otherwise . |
| 22 | However this is not usual and for this reason , LIFESPAN give a warning . |
| 23 | Although there are differences in the method of removal favoured by different surgeons ( Goodall , 1957 ) , it is usual to spare as much of the thalamus , basal ganglia and hippocampal cortex as possible and for this reason Austin and Grant ( 1955 ) , among others , have pointed out that the operation might be better described as hemi-decortication , reserving the term hemispherectomy for those cases in which subcortical structures are also destroyed . |
| 24 | But you will no doubt agree that the very best staff plans are those which give clear margins of error to allow for those days when an employee is ill or for one reason or another below par . |
| 25 | Reaction times to photographs of faces in a same-different task were reported to be faster for left than for right hemifield presentation by Geffen , Bradshaw and Wallace ( 1971 ) , Rizzolatti , Umilta and Berlucchi ( 1971 ) , Berlucchi , Brizzolara , Marzi , Rizzolatti and Umilta ( 1974 ) and St John ( 1981 ) . |
| 26 | Then what 's more natural than for two business colleagues staying in the same hotel to dine together ? ’ |
| 27 | Great and Lesser Black-backs are the only two gulls which are all white except for dark grey to black mantle and wings . |
| 28 | Which is fine except for one fact , In this instance , Professor Drucker , the most important management thinker of the post-war era , happens to agree with Peters . |
| 29 | It is obvious that for any group of companies to grow , a good balance is required between those which continually need cash injections to stay in business ( the capital-intensive type of enterprise which is typical of much of the chemical industry ) and those which can generate very high profits and throw off cash when things are going well . |
| 30 | Thus the Treasury had to give permission for all borrowing undertaken by a local authority , not merely in total but for each project for which money was borrowed . |