Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [conj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difference in prevalence between men and women is greater for those aged 60 or over than for any other age group . |
| 2 | At the time , neither Ruskin Road nor the following Beynon Road had been made up or developed and for some time , the trams ran on what in effect was reserved track . |
| 3 | However the final report was prepared earlier than expected and for this reason consideration of the rest of the self-appraisal by governors was abandoned . |
| 4 | Fortunately the wedge of cheese was thick and tasty and for this she was grateful . |
| 5 | I found the shop expensively decorated and empty except for two sales staff , one sitting reading a magazine , the other preventing the counter from falling over . |
| 6 | By opening the window and leaning out , the parish church comes into view across the lane , a lonely building now , empty and cold and bare except for one hour each week . |
| 7 | They thrust him stumbling up a winding stairway cut in the rock , and along another passage into a large , smoky room , blackened and bare but for certain engines and implements that stood against the walls , and a low brazier in the centre . |
| 8 | These are magnificent ridge walks quite apart from the reward of a bagful of Munros , but they are long and arduous and for experienced hillwalkers only . |
| 9 | Fishing was always pretty rough and ready but for most of the post-war years the core was a modern sector with employed and unionized labour working for large capitalist enterprises . |
| 10 | Fresh and wider insights have been offered for the ongoing formation to which ministers of the Eucharist are committed , whether ordained or for special needs . |
| 11 | Although there are differences in the method of removal favoured by different surgeons ( Goodall , 1957 ) , it is usual to spare as much of the thalamus , basal ganglia and hippocampal cortex as possible and for this reason Austin and Grant ( 1955 ) , among others , have pointed out that the operation might be better described as hemi-decortication , reserving the term hemispherectomy for those cases in which subcortical structures are also destroyed . |