Example sentences of "[subord] for the [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gullholm had been her entire world for almost a fortnight , except for the trip to the nursing home . |
| 2 | Do n't forget to fit a servicing valve just before the ballvalve and gatevalves to all the cold water feeds : these are connected after a short run of pipe except for the feed to the hot water cylinder , where the gatevalve is usually fitted in the airing cupboard near to the cylinder . |
| 3 | I do n't think so except for the relation to domestics . |
| 4 | But for the talks to be resumed in a favourable climate , there would have to be more confidence that the violence could be contained , agreement or no agreement . |
| 5 | As for the will to be a nation : paradoxically , the Thatcherite decade of celebrating the international market over notions of the national good , of decentralising the national interest into five million privately-owned share packages , did more damage than any amount of scheming from Brussels . |
| 6 | As for the letters to the museum itself and the director , Feigen says that they were apparently intercepted and sent on to Hildenbrand : ‘ When we contacted the museum to ask why payment had not been forthcoming , they had never heard of us ’ . |
| 7 | As for the export to the US of Magnox plutonium prior to 1971 the government has refused to say how much was exchanged . |
| 8 | As for the comparison to Brigitte Bardot , it 's a great compliment , because she is very beautiful . |
| 9 | As for the transition to Alpha , DEC 's Chris Sarfas said the company would be shipping ‘ a huge number of Alpha machines to application developers this year ’ , and that , with at least 1,000 applications ready and running , would begin shipping Alpha systems to customers in 1993 . |