Example sentences of "[subord] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now the solar influence is beginning to turn around to contribute a further warming influence up to the year 2010 , boosting the greenhouse effect where for the past 30 years it has been counterbalancing it . |
| 2 | The area of Washington I know best lies around Dupont Circle , its streets now ablaze with pink , purple and white azaleas , the pavement cafes now opening up , and where for the past two decades the left think tank , the Institute for Policy Studies , has been loc-ated . |
| 3 | Eleven weeks before the opening of the British Empire Exhibition ( where for the first time the King 's speech was transmitted by wireless to every part of the country and many parts of the British Empire ) , the house with every item in place was ready to be presented to both the Queen and the public . |
| 4 | Although there was a reduction in mental hospital beds of 17 per cent between 1955 and 1975 , this hardly bears comparison with the trend in the USA where for the corresponding period the reduction was 66 per cent . |
| 5 | New light on an Old Master is illuminated indeed , and it 's what you will find at Canada House Gallery where for the first time , an almost forgotten body of work by Henri Matisse , relating to his fascination with the Canadian Inuit , has been mounted together with much original source material in the way of Inuit masks , photographs and books which the artist studied . |
| 6 | So there I am in some terra incognita by the name of Stoke Newington , which Stuart assures me is the next district where house prices are due to display tumescence , but where for the moment there dwelleth men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders . |
| 7 | So , where for the great mass of its members , the success of a consumer co-operative is now no more than a matter of marginal interest to them , for the members of an industrial co-operative it is quite otherwise . |
| 8 | On land , where for the most part rocks are not built up by deposition but broken down by erosion , deposits , such as sand dunes , are only very rarely created and preserved . |
| 9 | ( 3 ) Where for the purposes of insolvency proceedings any process or order of the court , or other document , is required to be served on a person who is not in England and Wales , the court may order service to be effected within such time , on such person , at such place and in such manner as it thinks fit , and may also require such proof of service as it thinks fit . |
| 10 | An initiation for prisoners had been established where for the first week officers were encouraged to violently beat and humiliate the new prisoner in nauseous ways . |
| 11 | Leith requested , and went back to her own office , where for the next twenty minutes she tried to pick up the threads of her job . |
| 12 | Be that as it may , it may turn out that the preparedness not to acquiesce in any all-Ireland solution is decidedly stronger than most commentators until recently were prepared to accept , except for the work of Bew , Gibbon , and Patterson . |
| 13 | For him , wrote Harsnet , there is only the endless metamorphosis of narrative , no end except for the non-end of his death . |
| 14 | Except for the late 19th century saloon bars , Victorian pubs were , in contrast to modern ‘ Victorian-style ’ pubs , normally very plainly furnished and fitted . |
| 15 | Except for the more delicate crabs , they had a provincial Sunday lunch quality . |
| 16 | Many of the plants can be put in at any time of year , except for the dahlias . |
| 17 | Except for the burial at sea of a woman travelling to meet her husband , it was a dull voyage . |
| 18 | Seems reasonable , except for the fact that he has n't cut the mortises for the mullions . |
| 19 | Except for the few slats supporting the tank , all the shelves in the cupboard can be removed in a moment , making access really easy . |
| 20 | Most look similar except for the frame material ; choose this to match your windows if possible . |
| 21 | Now , this may not seem to be a feasible solution , except for the odd application such as electric blanket or underfloor heating where full wave rectified unsmoothed 50 or 60Hz AC will produce heating from a mixture of 81% DC and 19% AC at 100 or 120Hz and above . |
| 22 | The question of the relation of Pound 's poem with the book of Propertius 's elegies does not arise , except for the literary historian . |
| 23 | The tall brick houses would have looked like Victorian mansions , except for the pagoda roofs and the intricate wood lattices in place of glass window panes . |
| 24 | PERHAPS we are the only definable group , except for the landladies , who look forward to conference at all , conference and elections being the only points in the calendar when our lives become primed with meaning . |
| 25 | As in the Land-Rover and Range Rover , the Discovery 's body , except for the roof , is made of rust-resistant aluminium alloy . |
| 26 | From 6 a.m. the morning was fairly quiet , except for the occasional sniping . |
| 27 | There was an unusual quietness in the air , except for the sound of artillery in the distance and the occasional whine of a sniper 's bullet through the orchard . |
| 28 | The shelling and the mortaring had ceased except for the occasional explosion near at hand . |
| 29 | Everything was peaceful except for the whine of a sniper 's bullet through the trees and the sound of the mortar crew sending the occasional bomb to explode at the distant crossroads . |
| 30 | The shelling and mortaring had almost died away , except for the occasional round from the mortar team back in the orchard . |