Example sentences of "[conj] for [det] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The gendarme stood bewildered for a moment , and then ran into the street , where for some time he could be heard blowing his whistle . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Other methods include sending letters to all employees and holding meetings for groups of employees or for all employees . |
| 12 | From this it can be seen that no one method is suitable for all learning/ teaching situations or for all individuals . |
| 13 | if relocation takes place during a school term , the company will reimburse day school fees for the remainder of that term or for such periods as required by the school for pupil removal . |
| 14 | A contact orderwhich requires the person with whom the child lives , or is to live , to allow the child to visit or stay with the person named in the order or for that person and the child to otherwise have contact with each other . |
| 15 | After primary school , the encouragement of the imagination in children , and the cultivation of specifically creative activities , has often been thought an optional part of the curriculum , a luxury that may have to be dispensed with , left in , if at all , for the less able pupils deemed incapable of serious learning or for that minority determined to reject ‘ scientific ’ understanding . |
| 16 | It 's not much use arriving somewhere at ten in the morning clutching the collected works under your arm and wishing you had a wig and been born thirty years earlier in order to play Lear — or for that matter the Duke of Gloucester . |
| 17 | A proportion of the farm — or for that matter all of it — is set aside , left fallow , mown once a year while the farmer draws a set fee per acre and manages on the rest or gets another job . |
| 18 | She had died instantaneously , or pretty nearly so , without first getting up and crawling down the embankment , or for that matter getting up and riding a bicycle . |
| 19 | The bitterness and the troubles of the coal mines for the next seven , or for that matter twenty-seven years , derived in great part from the feeling of both miners and owners that they had been betrayed . |
| 20 | It will lack an expectation of success when in conflict with other horses , or for that matter people , and will give way to the aggression or assertiveness of other horses . |
| 21 | An image of God as a person like ourselves — for instance an old man on a cloud , or for that matter a young man from Nazareth — can , therefore , be deeply misleading . |
| 22 | Most of them on finding their symptoms gone see little point in either remembering their daily dose or for that matter paying out money for more medicine when they feel well . |
| 23 | What was he thinking now , or for that matter the parents of any youngsters in the vicinity ? |
| 24 | To believe the brochures , or for that matter the cover of the South American Handbook with its exotic bright orange cock of the rock ( Rupicola rupicola ) , is to be disappointed . |
| 25 | This was the first ever building specifically erected as a social meeting place , as opposed to a church , in this country — or for that matter , anywhere else in the world . |
| 26 | Schubert and Schumann could whimsically be described as poets , but calling Horowitz a poet is as silly as calling Lawrence Olivier a poet , or for that matter the builders who followed Wren 's drawings and erected St. Paul 's Cathedral . |
| 27 | Hungarian-born pianist Gyorgy Gziffra has never been as well known , or for that matter , as well regarded in England as he has been on the Continent or in the USA . |
| 28 | The English , or for that matter , people anywhere , have not got a monopoly on stupidity and evil intent . |
| 29 | Pay no attention to all the stories of mean Scots , or for that matter , mean Jews . |
| 30 | He had never brought my parents joy or pride , as Carl , or for that matter ( to varying degree ) my other brothers . |