Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Government must recognise that training is the way forward both for the long-term unemployed and for the business community . ’ |
| 2 | Away from industry , areas stacked up with chemicals , the Isle is raw and for the taking . |
| 3 | One night the black spring sky may be quiet and peaceful , empty but for the cicadas . |
| 4 | The place is empty but for the bar and three or four slightly-built lads shooting pool without words . |
| 5 | I am nothing but a stomach of cheap tin , empty but for the clanking of a few tin cans which have been squashed by a gargantuan hand and thrown together . |
| 6 | It was empty but for the Doctor , looking very smug , and the TARDIS . |
| 7 | Then he went , leaving the house empty but for the woman and the Overseer . |
| 8 | This pits the incumbent , Boris Yeltsin , who is moderately democratic and for the republics , against Nikolai Ryzhkov , an orthodox Communist . |
| 9 | This is necessary not only for the individual but for the development of society . |
| 10 | The toll on the Lisbon troops was one dead and seven wounded and for the rebels three dead and fifteen wounded , including one civilian . |
| 11 | The hammock , which was slung from a long pole carried on the shoulders of two men , was used for transporting the sick and infirm across rough country terrain and , in and around Funchal , for the rich and for the tourists who were carried through the dirty , and sometimes muddy , streets . |
| 12 | These were ( 1 ) ‘ Association for the Oral Institution of the Deaf and Dumb ’ based at Fitzroy Square , London , founded in 1872 ( 2 ) ‘ Society for Training Teachers of the Deaf and for the Diffusion of the German System ’ , based at the training college at Ealing , founded in 1877 ( 3 ) ‘ College of Teachers of the Deaf and Dumb ’ , founded in 1885 . |
| 13 | Many cell types undergo apoptosis when they are deprived of serum or specific growth factors ( reviewed in ref. 15 ) , and this was the case both for the parental and for the cells ( Fig. 1 a ) . |
| 14 | And , very exceptionally , a school 's staff might be marginally increased in such a way as to allow time for a curriculum leader to do some leading or for the mentors of new teachers to provide their counsel . |
| 15 | It is possible for the conclusion of an inductive argument to be false and for the premises to be true and yet for no contradiction to be involved . |
| 16 | Panic slapped her hard and for the splitting of a second she hesitated . |
| 17 | Although ‘ swamping ’ by elderly disabled people was partly responsible for this situation , the lack of motivation is attributable to users ' earlier life experiences : for the majority rehabilitation was inappropriate and for the rest the facilities offered were inadequate . |
| 18 | Confident that ‘ Bazza ’ would return , the programme editor left a white space where the manager 's notes should have been , blank but for the message : ‘ This page is reserved . ’ |
| 19 | Copy preparation and page make-up systems for preparing text and illustrations for publication , either in-house or for the preparation of camera-ready copy for external printing . |
| 20 | This has been put into a trust , and is being used to help the elderly and for the arts — seventy thousand pounds was donated for the Summerfield galleries in cheltenham , which also contain some objects from the collection . |
| 21 | Women , being closer to nature because of their biology , were more likely to be overcome by powerful feelings , and the burden therefore fell upon women to control themselves , for their good and for the good of all around them . |
| 22 | Any change would be gradual and for the time local parties were left with a free choice . |
| 23 | And you shall not strip your vineyard bare , neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard ; you shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner : I am the Lord your God ’ ( Lev . |
| 24 | Another social problem which concerned him was the lack of housing both for the poor and for the tourists . |
| 25 | However , in the period before 19th October the yield gap had become significantly negative and for the earnings yield to rise back to parity with the bond yield a significant fall in equity prices was needed . |
| 26 | It 's not a college , or even a church , but a Victorian town house , really rather unremarkable but for the fact that the man tipped to become the next American President used to live there . |
| 27 | Yes , the publications will be technology reliant but for the historian looking at a particular subject , there is also key word searching , text retrieval , ( to abstracts as well as full text ) and all on a physically smaller source ( CD-ROM ) . |
| 28 | Unchanging but for the seasons . |
| 29 | It may well be more effective for the program not to attempt anything too complicated and for the teacher to provide and guide the questions at the level required . |
| 30 | Yet I must still think it my duty , without reconsidering whether or not it be worthwhile , to continue this plain record of what ( I know ) need not have been plain but for the accident that I am a niggler without impulse , not an imaginative artist . |