Example sentences of "[conj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lastly , it should be said that the most common practice , because of the uncertainties surrounding the reasonableness of general exclusion clauses , is to include two general exclusion clauses covering liability for any breach of contract ( however caused and whatever its seriousness ) , one excluding liability for economic loss in respect of such breaches , and the other limiting liability by reference to a fixed amount for any one breach and/or for all breaches under the contract . |
| 2 | He was rushed to Brompton Hospital where for five weeks he lay under continuous oxygen . |
| 3 | The Gothic style Manor House is set in the midst of 120 acres ( 50 hectares ) of gardens and parkland ; it was built in 1804 to replace a previous Jacobean residence , and is at the centre of the 3,300 acres ( 1,335 hectares ) Bradwell Grove Estate , where for many centuries farming and forestry have been practised in a way typical of life in the Cotswolds . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There were furious debates in respect of schemes for Oxford and Bath , but the biggest single reversal of policy concerned London , where for many years three ringways had been in mind . |
| 6 | His sleep , he knew at once , must have been unusually deep , for he had no clear idea how long it had lasted nor where for that matter he was . |
| 7 | Such a lightning-spattered ending is found , for example , in Passionate Summer ( 1958 ) , where for most of the film the schoolteacher on a Caribbean Island has been keeping at bay the emotions directed towards him by a troubled pupil , the headmaster 's wife and an air hostess . |
| 8 | Edwards ( 1979 , 16 ) , for example , characterises the situation as one where for most of the twentieth century management have met ‘ chronic resistance to their effort to compel production ’ and consequently ‘ have attempted to organize production in such a way as to minimise opportunities for resistance and even to alter workers ’ perceptions of the desirability of opposition ’ . |
| 9 | Its clustering process is usually equivalent to straightforward clustering using a pseudo-metric d , where for any two examples x and y , d ( x , y ) = the number of functions f in the description language for which f(x) f(y) |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | His inability to rid himself of the woman is a recurrent theme , even though a psychoanalytic institute in the US ( where for some reason another analyst has written a book which presents the patient as a great therapeutic success ) actually sent him money regularly so that he could pay her off when she got too demanding . |
| 12 | The move has been initiated in the US , where for some years customers have been removing the skin ( the fattiest part ) from the chicken before eating it . |
| 13 | The gendarme stood bewildered for a moment , and then ran into the street , where for some time he could be heard blowing his whistle . |
| 14 | Fabia returned to her room admitting today — where for some unknown reason she had n't been able to admit yesterday — that yes , she was attracted by him , and yes , she did feel drawn to him . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Those who read highbrow papers found their papers no more useful for helping them decide how to vote or for revealing politicians ' personalities , and only a little more useful for explaining political issues . |
| 19 | The figures on the basis requested by the hon. Gentleman are not available for Mid-Glamorgan or for part-time male employees , but for Wales , taking September 1991 as the date for which the latest figures are available , there were respectively 618,000 , 498,000 and 501,000 male employees in employment . |
| 20 | If the contract is made for , say , 100 pneumonia cases or for 100 fractures ( or 100 births ) , what happens to the 101st case that comes along ? |
| 21 | If the contract has been given for , say , 100 pneumonia cases , or for 100 fractures ( or 100 births ! ) , what do you say to the 101st case that comes along ? |
| 22 | Often their most urgent needs , in any case , are for public investments ( in education , sanitation , health-care and so on ) that are unlikely to appeal to private investors — or for technical help , which can be far more productive than mere money . |
| 23 | Jaws adjust to hold difficult or tapered shapes , or for angled cutting |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , because SCs and other structures such as nucleolar organizing regions ( NORs ) and attachment plaques are visible at the light microscope level when silver staining is used , a number of authors have devised methods for LM analysis ( 40 ) , or for sequential LM and EM investigation ( 41 ) . |
| 26 | ‘ As profits in many existing fields attract a marginal rate of over 83 per cent , there is little incentive for companies to keep costs under control or for additional investment in existing fields , ’ he claimed . |
| 27 | Underneath he added ‘ which would be a good title for my next book or for all my work ’ . |
| 28 | That may be the norm , but , of course , there is also the abnorm when things go wrong , when the fire gets out of control , when , perhaps , the fire brigade has been over worked , or could n't find their way for cigarette smoke , or for all that saturated fat that clogged up the wheels of their tenders . |
| 29 | From this it can be seen that no one method is suitable for all learning/ teaching situations or for all individuals . |
| 30 | For example , expressed guilt may be so deep as to become delusional , generalised to the point where the individual believes that he or she is personally responsible for some major catastrophe or for all of the evil that exists in the world . |