Example sentences of "[subord] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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) |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The gendarme stood bewildered for a moment , and then ran into the street , where for some time he could be heard blowing his whistle . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This is the argument that suggests that senior officers are rather like Sir Humphrey figures in Yes Minister , who take the view that there 's nothing wrong with the government except for all these elected clowns that clutter the place up |
| 15 | Everything would be going well except for that damn business [ of the lost wallet ] . |
| 16 | The side stabilising units do add an extra support feature , but except for that , the Disc adds very little to the shoe . |
| 17 | Except for that of the tug being " swallowed up " , these metaphors are expressed through modifying adjectives . |
| 18 | As you can see , the wax has dissolved away extremely quickly , easily except for that lump . |
| 19 | No large predator threatens them from the land , except for that ubiquitous hunter , man , and many of their beaches are , in any case , difficult to reach for they lie below steep cliffs . |
| 20 | Except for that last year , when the blurred skelter of images would n't stay in their frames and played about with a kaleidoscopic frenzy . |
| 21 | ‘ Now , you have n't had anything to eat all day — except for that biscuit- and you must be starving . ’ |
| 22 | He looked less glamorous without his uniform of short white apron , and he had n't said much except for that boring rubbish about aliens . |
| 23 | except for that of the wind , which was continual |
| 24 | It might be that everyone 's wheely-bin is out except for that particular house . |
| 25 | And so sudden , the breakdown , the feelable absence of all agreement , of all consensus — except for that money-hate or anger you get when cities wedge their rich and poor as close as two faces of a knife … |
| 26 | A commodity never difficult to find , in John-William 's experience , particularly now when the Chartist leaders , who had been locked up after the troubles of 1839 , were all out of prison again ; except for that Sheffield lad , of course , who 'd died at twenty-seven , from the hard labour he 'd been put to at Northallerton jail . |
| 27 | The assassin did not have to enter the room and , in killing Cosmas , destroyed all the evidence except for that small scorch mark on the other side of the door . ’ |
| 28 | The elections had been called in early October [ see p. 37724 ] after President Wojciech Jaruzelski , the last remaining communist head of state in eastern Europe except for that of Albania , had agreed to resign just over a year into his six-year term and to transfer power to a freely elected head of state . |
| 29 | On Dec. 20 , 1991 , Berisha had announced that the DP would be presenting candidates in all 100 constituencies , except for that of the SPA-appointed President , Ramiz Alia , " since it 's he who will carry out the reforms " . |
| 30 | England , on the other hand , had a comparatively short Romanesque period of development following an extensive Saxon one but a very long and a unique building period in Gothic architecture emerging into a tardy Renaissance , nearly the last in Europe except for that of the Iberian peninsula . |