Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty minutes later the Sergeant was showing me my accommodation for the night : a bare cell except for a wooden bunk in one corner and two blankets . |
| 2 | Even this product of genius was flawed as it trailed away into melodrama but for a fleeting moment Hollywood was shown what could be achieved if its resources were used as the basis for a director 's cinema . |
| 3 | Never stash money in the house — either in little tins , jars or under the mattress except for a small amount for use in emergencies . |
| 4 | On the other hand , Heron ( 1794 ) says that Lewis was destitute of wood except for a few birches and hazels ’ . |
| 5 | It is easier for a husband to be found for a thin , and therefore supposedly beautiful , girl than for a plump one . |
| 6 | At the end of the five-year period , no money had been invested in projects for broadcasting except for a new medium wave transmitter in Dar es Salaam . |
| 7 | She was deathly pale , the mid-brown hair flattened to her head , the lined skin without make-up except for a brave but mistaken line of smudged lipstick . |
| 8 | Or are you still going to tell me that you were alone , alone all evening except for a half hour in a café ? ’ |
| 9 | After 5 days in Rotorua we went south to Taupo , a disappointing touristy place except for a lovely walk to the Huka Falls beside the crystal-clear , swirling waters of the Waikato River , and a visit to Cherry Island ( in the river ) where you are warmly greeted by numerous tame animals and birds as you roam around . |
| 10 | We are one of about three hundred Amnesty groups in the country , probably about this size , perhaps , well were , were , I mean this , this group is probably about an average for the , you know , the groups in the country , some are smaller , some are much larger , but er , usually it 's about a dozen or so people meeting once a month or , or that often in a room , erm , but apart from groups there are a l there are a great many more people who are called individual members of Amnesty about eighty thousand I think now who are , who just joined by writing to headquarters and many of those have no contact with the groups at all , we 've had list of the people in this area and they run into hundred and fifty , two hundred people who live in this area who er , who belong , who , who belong to Amnesty but do n't actually come to a group except for a small number of us . |
| 11 | Welshman Ian Woosnam would have joined them in second place but for a double bogey at the 17th for a 73 , while Scotland 's Colin Montgomerie is tucked in just behind after finishing four over par . |
| 12 | The risk of infection and disease is greater for an old person than for a normal , healthy adult , as warnings on food safety show . |
| 13 | One example of this is that the CEGB 's engineering costs for a new coal plant are expected to be 16 per cent higher than for the completion of the coal-fired Drax power station while for a new AGR it expects engineering costs to be 20 per cent lower than for the Heysham II prototype . |
| 14 | Bull , whose next goal for Wolves wil be his 200th in the League , would have equalised in the 65th minute but for a bad bounce on the edge of the six-yard area . |
| 15 | It looked more suitable for a multinational corporation than for a great Department of State . |
| 16 | Is the experience of higher education more or less rewarding , for example , for a female physics student than for a female English student ? |
| 17 | Shirtliff nodded down Wilson 's corner for Hirst to score the second and the Wednesday striker would have collected his 20th of the season but for a fine one-handed save by Marriott . |
| 18 | The organisation is a community of scientists — it has no physical centre except for a small secretariat at UNESCO 's headquarters in Paris . |
| 19 | Kilkenny could have been beaten in the Leinster championship but for a controversial penalty , awarded after John Power went down in the square . |
| 20 | She wore no jewellery except for a simple band around her wedding finger . |
| 21 | Cardiovascular mortality was not related to the duration of gestation except for a small increase in death rates in men born prematurely . |
| 22 | For many of those who do take the text seriously however , Christian teaching on the subject of wealth is summed up either by one of the easily remembered phrases from the Gospels such as ‘ Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor , and you will have treasure in heaven ’ ( Luke 18:22 ) or ‘ You can not serve God and Mammon ’ ( Luke 16:13 ) or that ‘ It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God ’ ( Luke 18:25 ) or by the way in which the members of the Jerusalem Church as recorded in Acts of the Apostles shared their wealth according to the principle ‘ From each according to his ability , to each according to his need ’ . |
| 23 | And he followed it up by that shrewd observation ‘ It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God ’ ( Mark 10:25 ) . |
| 24 | One of these , the composer 's working score of a late version of his Te Deum , Paris , Bibliotheque Nationale ( F-Pn ) , H400D(3) ( illus.3 ) , is all in his own hand except for a fair copy of a shortened version of the seventh movement , ‘ Tu Rex gloriae ’ which is in a second hand , and another inserted folio with an alternative version of ‘ Dignare ’ and ‘ Miserere ’ , in a third hand . |
| 25 | ‘ Swindon are a good side , but we would have beaten them at Ayresome Park but for a crazy final ten minutes . ’ |
| 26 | A similar incident occurred with me in 1983 between Australia and Argentina from even further out from the goal-line , and on that occasion I felt Australia would definitely have scored a try but for a deliberate knock-on by the defenders and awarded a penalty try . |
| 27 | One would generally expect to pay less for a private company than for a similar public company . |
| 28 | Most woodland is now found west of the River Arun , the downs further east being notably lacking in tree cover except for a few extensive forestry plantations , which now form a high proportion of all downland woodland . |
| 29 | In the eighth century the Moors moved rapidly over Spain from their base in North Africa and occupied the whole country except for a small area in the north-west , between the Cantabrian Mountains and the sea . |
| 30 | In this period , all South African military forces must be disbanded and withdrawn from the country except for a residual force of 1,500 troops who will be confined to bases at Grootfontein and Oshivello . |