Example sentences of "[conj] for [adj] [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was rushed to Brompton Hospital where for five weeks he lay under continuous oxygen . |
| 2 | The two tram routes departed from opposite sides of the central loading island in the Square , where for many years there was an ornamental drinking fountain and later a stone shelter and underground toilets . |
| 3 | One day in April 1943 Albert Hoffmann , a chemist who was working at Sandoz on the development of ergot alkaloids , felt unwell and went home early , where for some hours he experienced a variety of disordered visions . |
| 4 | In 1858–9 he was in the service of the Admiralty , before returning to south Wales , where for ten years he was engineer-in-chief and general manager of the Sirhowy Tramroad , which he converted into a standard railway . |
| 5 | In 1923 he obtained two consultant posts as children 's physician , one at the Queen 's Hospital for Children , where for ten years he was in charge of the London county council rheumatic and heart clinic , and the other at Paddington Green Children 's Hospital , where he continued to work for nearly forty years . |
| 6 | When doctors announced that there was a glimmer of hope , Raine organized a private ambulance to take him to the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in Queen Square , central London where for several months he lay in a coma . |
| 7 | But , of course , the £50 deposit , at a time when the annual wage was less than £500 , was a powerful deterrent to all but the wealthiest families and remained so until the Baldwin Fund agreed to put up the money for children without guarantors or for foster parents who could not afford to pay . |
| 8 | Firstly , he points to the recommendations contained in the Wolfenden Report and argues that if society were not able to pronounce homosexuality morally wrong , then there would be no basis for a law which aims to protect youth from ‘ corruption ’ , or for punishing men who live off the earnings of a homosexual prostitute . |
| 9 | If you have lost yours , or for newer members who do not have it , it is obtainable , free of charge , from : MAFF Publications , London SE99 7TP . |
| 10 | For elderly people this will be on two levels — a premium for people aged 60 to 79 , and a higher rate for those who are 80 and over or for younger pensioners who are sick or disabled . |
| 11 | Oh , about the same except for two strangers who happened to pop in , county types . ’ |
| 12 | He gives the traditional account of how a merchant ship was pillaged in the Red Sea and its crew and passengers massacred except for two boys who were brought to Ella Amida in Aksum . |
| 13 | The pond is virtually sterile except for algal mats which grow only at points about its edges where fresh water is available ( Harris et al . , |
| 14 | Except for eight patients who had never been treated with antisecretory drugs at the time of the study , the remainder took part in a prospective follow up protocol with estimation of several parameters , at each visit ( every 6–12 months ) . |
| 15 | The arrangements for demobilisation were based strictly on length of service , except for those girls who were married and they got out almost at once . |
| 16 | Textbooks are not a primary vehicle for the reporting of research results , except for those books which are compilations of the research papers presented at conferences . |
| 17 | By the later part of the nineteenth century the pattern of inter-generational exchanges which had characterized pre-industrial and early industrial society clearly had shrunk to a pattern of very limited contributions by children to the household economy , except for those children who were allowed to work as ‘ half timers ’ until this possibility was also removed in 1918 ( Hurt , 1979 ) . |
| 18 | The CLAWS system also adopts ‘ backing off ’ formulae but seen from a different perspective — a bigram model is used except for special-case tag-triples which empirical results showed would be wrongly tagged . |
| 19 | This meant that for long periods they were uncomfortably silent because they could think of nothing to say . |
| 20 | They found that for married men who were household heads under age 45 , the proportions ‘ out of work ’ ( a wider concept than we used which included those who had given up looking for work because they did n't think any was available ) was about nine times as high in the local authority as in the occupied sector . |
| 21 | This meant that for six weeks he was on a special bed that could be turned so that he spent some hours on his back and some on his front , never getting off the bed at all . |
| 22 | I started it basically on my own initiative and I said that for six months I would use it on people that I was going to sentence just to maintain a one judge control over the project and see how it was going . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , he realised that for political reasons it would be very difficult to do less than had been proposed in the Bill introduced in 1938 . |
| 24 | We regret that for practical reasons we can not accept cheques less than 7 days prior to date of departure . |
| 25 | ‘ After the tent blew down we renegotiated the situation so that for 11 performances they would receive the same fee . |
| 26 | He also became President of the Royal Society , so that for 5 years he led its activities in nurturing British science and ripening its fruits . |
| 27 | As my vouchers are used up in about four months each year this means that for eight months I 'm out of pocket using our stores for the weekly shop . |
| 28 | He had a strange sensation that for many minutes he had been holding his breath , though he could n't of course have been doing that . |
| 29 | The problem is that for many centuries there were a number of variant systems in which the year of grace began at different times — 1 January , Christmas Day , the Annunciation , Easter Day , and 1 , 24 and 29 September . |
| 30 | I should perhaps explain that for many years it had been a regulation in UK registered public transport aircraft that when flying below 15 000 feet hand operated microphones were prohibited . |