Example sentences of "[subord] for [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 3 ) Where for the purposes of insolvency proceedings any process or order of the court , or other document , is required to be served on a person who is not in England and Wales , the court may order service to be effected within such time , on such person , at such place and in such manner as it thinks fit , and may also require such proof of service as it thinks fit . |
| 2 | The bar was empty now except for a couple of old boys playing dominoes . |
| 3 | In , his reading aloud had proved to be successful except for a couple of occasions when he had had a particularly stressful day and had found it exceedingly difficult to relax . |
| 4 | Our submarines are all operational , you see , except for a couple of recent arrivals that are working up ; new boats getting a crew together , that is , doing sea trials and dummy runs with torpedoes . |
| 5 | The incident room was in darkness , except for a couple of desks whose reading lights had not been switched off , a glowing computer screen and the flashing red lights of some electrical equipment . |
| 6 | She was also almost naked , except for a couple of mere scraps of the lightest chain mail and riding boots of iridescent dragonhide . |
| 7 | The water trough was empty except for a layer of scum , a beer bottle and some sweet wrappers . |
| 8 | He was a fairly typical boy of his neighbourhood , well liked by his friends , and with facial features that remained pretty unaltered through youth and early life , except for a tendency towards puppy fat . |
| 9 | His body , naked except for a pair of socks , was found dumped on wasteland near a bus depot in Shepherd 's Bush later that afternoon . |
| 10 | The square was empty , except for a pair of winos sleeping it off under the statue . |
| 11 | He was naked except for a pair of shorts and a white towelling robe , draped over one shoulder , emphasising the strength of his bronze chest . |
| 12 | John Lennon dropped in on it , and got embarrassed when the poet , naked except for a pair of underpants draped round his head , kissed him on the cheek . |
| 13 | He appeared to be naked except for a pair of high boots , a tiny leather hold-all in the region of his groin , and a high-crested helmet . |
| 14 | Except for a rise in gold prices immediately following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August , it was bleak year for precious metals . |
| 15 | We now write unc so that each square matrix is null except for a unit in the appropriate diagonal position . |
| 16 | The third column of B is then null except for a unit in the position corresponding |
| 17 | The criticism focused especially on the government 's delay in completing cyclone damage assessment and , except for a request for more helicopters , its failure to provide aid agencies with a detailed list of emergency supply needs . |
| 18 | He was unarmed except for a dagger with a mother-of-pearl handle pushed through an ornately embroidered belt . |
| 19 | And then I could put it all back in a ponytail except for a bit at the front dripping down . |
| 20 | There was no blonde except for a lady on the TV who was showing us Saniflush in the new unbreakable plastic bottle . |
| 21 | There was a cry , followed shortly by a pounding of feet past the trench and down through the orchard , then silence , except for a rumble of artillery somewhere in the distance . |
| 22 | This stretch is attractive at first , with Christ Church Meadow on one side and a cricket pitch on the other , but as it approaches the larger river the Cherwell divides into two channels separated by a flat overgrown island , deserted except for a row of college boathouses . |
| 23 | The radial shields are rounded triangular to teardrop shaped , slightly greater than a quarter of the disk diameter in length , distally contiguous except for a row of granules which runs along the suture . |
| 24 | I felt okay , I had no pains , except for a belt around my waist . |
| 25 | It is , of course , the Joyce of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses who attracted the nouveaux romanciers rather than Finnegans Wake , whose verbal and linguistic inventiveness did not receive many enthusiasts , except for a period during the 1970s when both Robbe-Grillet and Simon were influenced by the theories of Jean Ricardou , who stressed the productive nature of work on language in order to counter representation . |
| 26 | The man was clad in midnight blue silk and his head was shaved except for a queue of black hair which was coiled on top of his scalp . |
| 27 | So far on this journey , except for a moment at Mahanaim , we have been travelling through country we know or can imagine . |
| 28 | The research showed there to be virtually no knowledge among arts projects personnel of available strategies for guiding schools in staff development except for a recognition of criteria by which to identify schools ready for development ( Shipman 's concept of a ‘ healthy school ’ in Slater 1985 ; viz. a recognition of the need for change by the school staff , a supportive headteacher , the active involvement of a senior member of staff , and a professionally interactive staff ) . |
| 29 | There was silence , except for a creaking from the gas-meter . |
| 30 | They are jawless , blind and without fins except for a fringe around the tail . |