Example sentences of "[subord] for [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mass of people of all classes of society , except for the Earl 's house guests , moved off towards the exits , and a sorry sight they were . |
| 2 | The divorce stage no longer requires a court appearance , except for the children 's appointment in chambers , at which the petitioner attends . |
| 3 | I 'm just you 're just making me think actually because I saw in one of the papers this morning erm a headline , if I can find it , it said something to the effect that — yes here it is , in the Independent , it says ‘ TV soaps are first to survive rescheduling ’ and it goes on to tell us that the British television schedules as we all know were the first casualties of war in the Gulf except for the nation 's daily diet of Australian soap . |
| 4 | The idea was so daft she would have laughed except for the Captain 's searing glance , which rested for no more than a second on her before returning to burn into Midnight as he breathed : |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The fees for a fuller report are , of course , higher than for the society 's valuation report , because the surveyor will spend more time both inspecting the property and preparing a fuller report suitable for your needs . |
| 7 | ‘ So they 're a splinter group working for their own evil purposes rather than for the island 's status quo ? ’ |
| 8 | Fleury was beside himself with distress , but more for Louise 's sake than for the Doctor 's ( he had privately come to consider his prospective father-in-law as an opinionated old fool ) . |
| 9 | Children grew disobedient when they knew that they could not be set aside : farmers were ousted of their leases made by tenants in tail ; for , if such leases had been valid , then under colour of long leases the issue might have been virtually disinherited : creditors were defrauded of their debts ; for , if tenant in tail could have charged his estate with their payment , he might also have defeated his issue , by mortgaging it for as much as it was worth : innumerable latent entails were produced to deprive purchasers of the lands they had fairly bought ; of suits in consequence of which our antient books are full : and treasons were encouraged ; as estates-tail were not liable to forfeiture , longer than for the tenant 's life . |
| 10 | Possibly a subsequent review stimulates action that would not have taken place but for the committee 's initial probing . |
| 11 | She would have been fast asleep already , but for the Admiral 's early-morning call . |
| 12 | More prosperous hamlets would have nothing to do with the inhabitants and , but for the Community 's care , many would have starved or died prematurely . |
| 13 | Thus the plaintiff would be obliged to show that he either bought/sold shares at an inflated/deflated price compared to what would have been the price , but for the defendant 's actions . |
| 14 | The plaintiff must prove that his damage would not have occurred , but for the defendant 's breach of duty . |
| 15 | The fact that a deceased 's widow would have given up work to start a family but for the deceased 's death is not a matter to be taken into account so as to increase her dependency on the deceased from the date that she would have given up work ( Malone v Rowan [ 1984 ] 3 All ER 402 ) . |
| 16 | As for the newspapers ' verdict on his conduct , that was never in doubt . |
| 17 | The explanation is probably the same as for the sector 's use of fixed-term contract workers — that casual workers are the principal form of temporary worker engaged . |
| 18 | As for the investors ' representatives , businessman John Dyer and his committee at BCIG and Antony Gold and David Pine at Alexander Tatham yesterday represented almost the end of a daily nightmare . |
| 19 | As for the Government 's style , Mr Heseltine suggested that much of its tough ‘ rhetoric ’ was empty , because the hostile words did not match the actions . |
| 20 | AS FOR the government 's negotiating strategy , Harkabi forecast that nothing would scare the ‘ extremists ’ like a readiness to talk from the other side . |
| 21 | As for the Government 's position , we are investing £120 million to help the people and economy of north Lanarkshire , including £40 million from this Department . |
| 22 | As for the farmer 's own income increasing , it was found that larger farmers reap better financial benefits from converting more buildings , compared to smaller farmers who just received a one-off cash injection . |
| 23 | As for the Essenes ' supposed non-violence , there is significant evidence to disprove it . |
| 24 | As for the parent TE is leaving behind , Tandy is expected to show solid profits in 1993 , John Roach , chairman and chief executive said . |
| 25 | As for the party 's electoral system , it is a compromise clumsily put together by that decent man , Terry Duffy , to minimise union power at its most triumphalist and overbearing . |
| 26 | As for the Webbs ' insistence on the separate and restricted role for trade unionism , the practical effect was , once again , to abandon industrial democracy , to accept that the rights of working people at work remained the rights inhering in the property they owned : their labour , and nothing more . |
| 27 | As for the fieldworker 's position vis-à-vis informants , our concern is to account for this ( this can be seen as an extension of the notion of accountability to the data into the fieldwork phase ) and to use it as part of our method of data classification . |
| 28 | The reason for his pleasure , as well as for the handkerchief 's greyness , was that he had washed it himself … and really he had done just as good a job as the dhobi had been doing for the most extravagant prices . |
| 29 | As for the project 's general direction towards RBL and the thematic and investigative pedagogies this entails , the head and library staff shared a strong commitment to such a philosophy . |
| 30 | As for the author 's intentions , what counts is only whether or not he has succeeded in writing poetry , and that too can be discerned by reference to the text alone . |