Example sentences of "[subord] for some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The gendarme stood bewildered for a moment , and then ran into the street , where for some time he could be heard blowing his whistle . |
| 5 | On the whole the entrepreneurs of migration were uncontrolled , except for some supervision of shipping conditions after the terrifying epidemics of the late 1840s . |
| 6 | His skin was clear except for some roughness and a certain redness at the major joints . |
| 7 | He did not need a stick at this time , for he was feeling better than usual , and his skin would have passed for normal except for some roughness here and there easily attributable to the chafing of clothes or to taking too many baths in hard water without the benefit of bottled body oils sold by any chemist worth the name . |
| 8 | Exports of toxic waste to other European or Third World countries were to be banned , except for some consignments destined for recycling which could be exported under licence from the EC Commission . |
| 9 | There are no pre-compiled programs on the CD except for some MS-DOS packages . |
| 10 | This is a remarkable achievement , for his contemporaries ( except for some economists ) are now forgotten , even by highly educated men and women , or else they have weathered the intervening century so badly that intellectual archaeologists can once more discover forgotten merits in their writings . |
| 11 | From that date the deutschmark became the currency in East Germany , border controls were removed ( except for some categories of foreigners ) , price controls were abolished ( except for rent , public transport and certain other utilities ) , the West German systems of welfare , wage bargaining , banking and labour laws became applicable in East Germany , West German rates of value added tax and certain other West German taxes became payable , and rights to own and transfer landed property were introduced . |
| 12 | Numerical prefixes are not used in naming salts except for some acid salts . |
| 13 | And , ironically , professional sports , like baseball or soccer in Japan , are also company based except for some soccer clubs . |
| 14 | All the professional photography we see on television is shot from camera tripods except for some newsreel material — and even hand-held news shots are almost as steady when the camcorder is being operated by an experienced cameraman . |
| 15 | Nothing remained as it had been , except for some pictures aslant on the wall . |
| 16 | The dynamic duo are responsible for almost every bit used in the demo except for some loading routines and music players ) : Equal doing coding and graphics ; Snap doing music and graphics . |
| 17 | Nothing much happens , physically , except for some brow-touching and pulse-taking. oh yes : Tod does his minor violence with the pins : ‘ Any numbing ? ’ |
| 18 | And with Venus in your own sign between February 2 and June 6 , there has to be more love and fulfilment around than for some time . |
| 19 | In fact he is probably feeling fresher and sharper now , hungrier to resume his England career than for some time . |
| 20 | ‘ The paperback market had now improved somewhat , and we believe that book production capacity and demand are more in balance than for some time ’ , he added . |
| 21 | Whether due to Anglo-American action or not , the Middle East became temporarily quieter than for some time . |
| 22 | Ian Rock , the chief executive , said yesterday : ‘ The group 's position is more stable than for some time , but it still requires a substantial improvement in the economy and a solution to the group 's gearing before it can achieve satisfactory returns on shareholders ’ funds . ’ |
| 23 | The climate for doing so is more favourable than for some years past . |
| 24 | This visits period lasted for half a term , although for some subject departments it was completed during four weeks . |
| 25 | Occasionally a gelding , or even a mare , may be so aggressive that there is a real possibility of it seriously injuring another horse , especially if there are shelter sheds another horse can be trapped in , although for some horses even the corner of the paddock is enough . |
| 26 | Although for some domains the specific dictionary far outperformed the general , the overall margin , on average , was insufficient to justify their continued use . |
| 27 | Although for some years now people have been suing them for outrageous sums well beyond any amount that could ever be insured , when it came to the crunch litigants always settled out of court for a far lower figure . |
| 28 | Usually , pH limits of between 7 and 9 are desirable , that is , no acidity and only bicarbonate alkalinity , although for some purposes stricter limits may be necessary . |
| 29 | The actor is no different , although for some reason it is often thought that you are somehow ready to act , magically , the moment you enter a stage door . |
| 30 | The electric pumps deliver fuel to the carburettors ready for starting and , on a cold day , the primers should be used although for some reason these are wired closed on Juliet Uniform and one has to pump the throttles a few times before firing up . |