Example sentences of "[subord] for [art] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None was formally invited , except for a late and not very attractive offer to Montagu , but Lloyd George would probably have been glad to have two or three of them had he believed that they would accept . |
| 2 | The crisis should now have been over except for a brief and unwise Greek sally against Turkey which produced a spasm of concerted action by the powers , pleased to find themselves able to agree in holding Greece back . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There are no antiprotons or antineutrons , made up from antiquarks , except for a few that physicists produce in large particle accelerators . |
| 5 | The two had barely exchanged a word in the last twenty minutes except for a short and inconclusive argument as to whether a particularly powerful explosion had been the oil bond store or the workshop of Kerible the Enchanter . |
| 6 | In the cave itself , bas-reliefs sculpted close together on a stalagmite cone , hard to make out for the most part , except for an obvious and memorable reindeer some three feet long , in the museum , animals graphically carved or engraved on bone , many of them heads of horses , but fish too , and pieces of bone , antler and ivory carved quite elaborately into abstract patterns of diamond shapes , chevrons or spirals . |
| 7 | A third technique is devolution — the separation , except for the ultimate and overriding authority of Parliament , of functions from central government entirely and their vesting in a subordinate authority . |
| 8 | I travelled there once with Omar Torrijos , friend of Fidel and Graham Greene , and charismatic leader of all the Panamanians — except for the rich and privileged class that used to live more in Miami than Panama . |
| 9 | The early Anglo-Saxon period is unspectacular and , except for the rare and fabulous discoveries such as the ship burial at Sutton Hoo ( Suffolk ) has not been brought to popular attention . |
| 10 | Paperbacks in general had pushed aside the hardback , except for the specialized and coffee table markets . |
| 11 | Little remains to be said or sung after that — except for the brief but exquisite requiem with which Arkel brings the opera to an end . |
| 12 | Little remains to be said or sung after that — except for the brief but exquisite requiem with which Arkel brings the opera to an end . |
| 13 | It makes it less audacious and less entertaining than the Eye , of course , except for the literary and dramatic reviews . |
| 14 | The peace in the harbour area was undisturbed , except for the insistent and mildly annoying buzz of flies . |
| 15 | Except for the fourth and fifth which is easy cos that 's just one semitone less . |
| 16 | A newly arrived unskilled Mediterranean worker living in a run-down neighbourhood in a Scandinavian city is more likely to feel , and appear , in some significant ways more socially incompetent that a middle-class , professional native living in the suburbs : even though the boundaries for each may be comparable in kind and number , for the skilled and socialised native the boundaries be relatively more open than for the unskilled and unsocialised gästarbetare . |
| 17 | If creative writing was still the sine qua non of my life , I would continue to write , but for a greater and wider public . |
| 18 | ‘ It appears to me that the whole question is governed by the broad , general , universal principle that English legislation , unless the contrary is expressly enacted or so plainly implied as to make it the duty of an English court to give effect to an English statute , is applicable only to English subjects or to foreigners who by coming into this country , whether for a long or a short time , have made themselves during that time subject to English jurisdiction . |
| 19 | The case has brought to light a ‘ letter of instruction ’ signed by Wallis two weeks before his death in 1986 asking the trustees of his foundation to exhibit the paintings on loan at the Los Angeles County Museum , ‘ whether for a definite or indefinite period of time ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ Put into the language of today , the general principle being there stated is simply that , unless the contrary is expressly enacted or so plainly implied that the courts must give effect to it , United Kingdom legislation is applicable only to British subjects or to foreigners who by coming to the United Kingdom , whether for a short or a long time , have made themselves subject to British jurisdiction . |
| 21 | In the 1920s , generally all state schools — whether for the deaf or for those with normal hearing — had conditions which were grim . |
| 22 | As for the Seventh and Eighth Books ( 1619 and 1638 ) , to say nothing of the Ninth , compiled eight years after the composer 's death , they contain quasi-operatic ballets and experiments ( 11 ballo dell' Ingrate , Tirsi e Clori , Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda ) , declamatory or melodic solos or duets over repeated or varied basses , with or without string ritornelli , elaborate vocal and instrumental concerti , and the simplest solo canzonette . |
| 23 | Varies : much as for The Rational if you have the binge in your own home and do n't serve champagne ; but can go through the roof if you hire a restaurant and insist on Moet all the way through . |
| 24 | As for the hon. and learned Gentleman 's other point , I have made the NATO position clear before . |
| 25 | As for the high-end and non-Intel vendors , they too will benefit from the innovations as users scale up , claims Rekhi . |
| 26 | As for the high-end and non-Intel vendors , they too will benefit from the innovations scaling up , claims Rekhi . |