Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was it simply that he wished to remain in Istanbul , and , if so , did he wish to do so for professional or for personal reasons ? |
| 2 | Fresh and wider insights have been offered for the ongoing formation to which ministers of the Eucharist are committed , whether ordained or for special needs . |
| 3 | It should be clear that for total injections and total withdrawals to remain equal requires that a rising interest rate be accompanied by a falling level of income , and vice versa . |
| 4 | However , a study commissioned by FRES , the primary objective of which was to give support to these claims , made very clear that for certain categories of worker , particularly secretarial/keyboard staff in central London and computer staff , agency supplied labour was more expensive ( Rothwell/Mingard , 1985 ) . |
| 5 | It will be clear that for this approach an artefact which already embodies a categorization process is clearly distinguished from a natural object which does not . |
| 6 | However , it should perhaps be made clear that for most people with schizophrenia , their brains appear completely normal as far as can be made out when looked at under the microscope . |
| 7 | His skin was clear except for some roughness and a certain redness at the major joints . |
| 8 | In the centre of Cheapside stood the stocks , empty except for one person , a large , fat man , his head securely clasped between the wooden slats . |
| 9 | The off-licence was empty except for two drop-outs buying canned beer : the proprietor contrived to address Scarlet and Constance without once taking his eyes off his other customers , not even as he wrapped a bottle of Smirnoff and extracted six cans of Long Life from under the glass counter . |
| 10 | I found the shop expensively decorated and empty except for two sales staff , one sitting reading a magazine , the other preventing the counter from falling over . |
| 11 | It 's empty except for this man and woman . |
| 12 | There is then a wonderful opportunity for those who have survived , because the field is clear and for some time newcomers are chary of entering it . |
| 13 | It was , therefore , all the more depressing for the Taylors to find colour more of a front-page issue than the fact that John raised nearly £1 million for Cheltenham 's unemployed and for local crime prevention . |
| 14 | Er I think we must remind ourselves that er this year 's as I say is by no means er generous and for that reason we 're not aiming higher , not because we would n't like to , but because we recognize the , the restrictions placed from elsewhere . |
| 15 | There was murder within marriage because a husband or a wife wanted life to be different and for one reason or another could find no other way to bring that about . |
| 16 | ‘ Many companies , however successful , tend to be somewhat inbred and for this reason people often welcome an injection of new thinking into their affairs . ’ |
| 17 | The ward beyond was empty but for ten beds , only one of which was occupied . |
| 18 | It is possible that for brief periods during construction of the breakwater , barges or other vessels may need to moor in positions which would affect operation of the radar station . |
| 19 | ( Is it possible that for some reason , such as disease , the manpower became too weak to handle these massive stones ? |
| 20 | Now , I leave entirely on one side the question why on earth the present ratio between profits and incomes generally is so supremely right that for all time it ought to be preserved , or at any rate allowed only to diminish , regardless of anything else that happens , such as the growth of savings and accumulation of capital . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | They tend to think of profits as being directly related to the volume of sales and find it confusing that for one year the reported sales are higher than the previous year but the reported net profit is lower . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It was in these few rooms that the last act of the drama took place , for the rest of the building remained unused except for those rooms near to the Empress 's apartments where her few attendants camped out , sleeping on improvised beds and working , when necessary , on the corners of tables hastily cleared to provide space on which to write . |
| 25 | Ideally we should include configuration interaction ( CI ) , but this is rarely possible except for small molecules . |
| 26 | Michael Jones says : ‘ Brittany is particularly rich in manor houses — thousands survive and the serious study of them is much less advanced than for equivalent buildings in England . |
| 27 | The Orb recreating the Pistols covering Iggy , with Paterson simulating Rotten 's every sneer , note perfect except for odd snatches of reggae backbeat . |
| 28 | The course will usually be less technical and more flowing than for pure showjumping and different penalties are incurred : |
| 29 | ‘ As I say , straightforward except for one clause which commits Supersight to market a range of putters if Harley wins the British Open . |
| 30 | The situation is so serious that for any government to do what is necessary , it will have to be hated . |