Example sentences of "[subord] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | You also know that when a company like Hewlett-Packard announces that inkjet technology is the largest research and development project it has ever undertaken — except for RISC processors — the technology has a bright future . |
| 32 | Except for birds seen during severe winter weather , which have often associated with influxes of other geese , records of this species are open to the suspicion that the birds have escaped from captivity . |
| 33 | Except for dates . |
| 34 | If applied to water from the reef , most hobby test kits would read zero — except for oxygen . |
| 35 | The ban on British clubs was lifted ( except for Liverpool ) . |
| 36 | Avoncliffe very poor except for feature pegs . |
| 37 | There are two open bothies on the route but contrary to what is written in some places , the farm at lonely Carnmore on the Letterewe estate is not inhabited except for part of the year . |
| 38 | Up to a third of mothers using such facilities have no job , except for day nurseries where 60–70 per cent of the mothers are employed ( Osborn , Butler , and Morris 1984 ) . |
| 39 | They all went out except for Father Martin who closed the door and sat on the bed . |
| 40 | Until they reached the outskirts of Teddington they drove in silence , except for Lorton 's directions and Tolby 's sniffs . |
| 41 | Except for Preston , who had his own one-way dialogue with the Almighty . |
| 42 | It shows that where transit time is accelerated higher mucosal concentrations occur after slow release preparations ( except for Claversal 250 mg ) than after azo-bound drugs . |
| 43 | In conclusion , it can be said that during accelerated intestinal transit , slow release preparations , except for Claversal 250 mg tablets , provide higher steady state mucosal concentrations than azo-bound drugs . |
| 44 | Juvenile Tengmalm 's uniformly rufous , including most of facial disc , except for eyebrows . |
| 45 | The techniques used by the team depended on cunning placing of salt shakers , identical except for hole size , in a public cafeteria and on Quantas ( sic ) aircraft , with shakers weighed before and after use . |
| 46 | After around twenty years of virtual silence , except for chimes at the occasional wedding , the sixteenth century church bells are finally back in place . |
| 47 | Tom Peters , Michael Porter and the venerable Peter Drucker — these and a handful of others , all American academics except for Britain 's Charles Handy , are the spiritual leaders of the business world , the high priests of management . |
| 48 | Except for Britain and France this type of banking became prevalent in continental Europe during the buoyant expansion of capitalism since the 1880s and close relationships between industrial companies and banks built up everywhere basically on the same lines , even though their evolution proceeded rather differently in different countries . |
| 49 | They then move a little further down before taking up the major part of their trip , largely unbroken to the Gulf of Mexico except for stopovers to explore the towns and recover from incidents , including loss of their canoe on one occasion . |
| 50 | ‘ I can vouch for it that nobody has moved from his or her desk all the time you 've been here , except for Nigel and he has not moved from his corner . ’ |
| 51 | A turning point in the history of the republic came in 1358 , when Ludovic of Hungary forced the Venetians to cede to him the whole of Dalmatia , except for Ragusa . |
| 52 | Further investigation in other clinics were negative except for ultrasound scanning which revealed gall stones in three and they had a cholecystectomy . |
| 53 | In addition , the United States had its largest military mission in Korea except for Turkey . |
| 54 | ‘ Thalidomide was proved by three years of animal tests , ’ she said , ‘ and these were confirmed in every country of its use except for Turkey . |
| 55 | It was announced on March 31 that subsidies were to be lifted from 16 consumer commodities , i.e. all except for semolina , flour , milk and bread . |
| 56 | Claims exceeding Branch handling limits which are : Engineering Claims $25,000 Computer Claims $ 5,000 except for claims for Reinstatement of Data which should always be referred to H.O . |
| 57 | Prices of agricultural products were freed in Estonia from July 1 ( except for milk products which remained under state control ) . |
| 58 | Buyers in good faith were left with their normal contractual remedies ; creditors were allowed their actio pigneraticia ; but buyers in bad faith were deprived of all remedy except for return of the price , and no damages could be sought . |
| 59 | The laughter was dutiful , except for Joshua who merely grunted and shrugged his shoulders . |
| 60 | In patients with Crohn 's colitis , the scan score correlated with all tests except for erythrocyte sedimentation rate and alpha-1 acid glycoprotein ( Table ) . |