Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most advances are supposed to be short-term but in practice many are outstanding for long periods . |
| 2 | means they are outstanding for an average of 67 days . |
| 3 | Suppose : That through good collecting your average accounts receivable are reduced to £ 150,000 , which means they are outstanding for an average of 45 days . |
| 4 | The computer printed report should be annotated to indicate those problems which are outstanding for more than five days or which led to a Change Request . |
| 5 | 9.1.1 The rents ( or any of them or any part of them ) under this Lease are outstanding for [ 14 days ] after becoming due whether formally demanded or not |
| 6 | To Paul Dubrulle , a thirty-four-year-old French Jesuit serving as an infantry sergeant at Verdun , whose journals are outstanding for their un-embellished realism , it seemed as follows : |
| 7 | Surface pumps are preferable for some water gardens , especially where a relatively high ‘ head ’ of water is necessary , this ‘ head ’ being the vertical distance between water level and the highest point of discharge . |
| 8 | The errors are all very large , but they are largest for investment , exports and imports , and manufacturing output . |
| 9 | Lastly , if tails become forked ( when closed ) through elongation of their outer feathers , lift initially increases more rapidly than drag ( as the spread tail tends toward the optimum triangular shape ) , so that aerodynamic costs are lower for long shallow forks than for simple tails . |
| 10 | Second , at each age mortality rates are lower for women as compared with men ( this is considered in more detail below ) . |
| 11 | Characteristic stretching frequencies are lower for heavier atoms ; |
| 12 | Characteristic stretching frequencies are lower for weaker bonds , where the restoring forces are smaller ; |
| 13 | We are sorry for any misunderstanding or embarrassment this caused to James Capel and to the banks . |
| 14 | So , said Miss Lawley helpfully , will you now say you are sorry for introducing it ? |
| 15 | But never forget that He will forgive those who are sorry for any evil they have done . |
| 16 | We are sorry for his death but how are we responsible ? ’ |
| 17 | Natural populations of white clover are polymorphic for incompatibility alleles and for the ability to form nitrogen fixing symbioses with strains of Rhizobium but these have not been looked at at Henfaes . |
| 18 | Soundposts are an important feature of bowed instruments but are unsuitable for plucked instruments and will deaden the sound of a dulcimer . |
| 19 | And for those who say that some pubs are unsuitable for children because they might have some evil influence , then is n't it about time those pubs were cleaned up ? |
| 20 | Laing rejects the view held by some people that managers from major corporations are unsuitable for giving advice to small firms because they live in two different worlds . |
| 21 | Domestic animals have over-grazed the area creating total desert conditions which are unsuitable for oryx . |
| 22 | Although at first sight , the great abundance of bogs and freshwater lochs on the Outer Hebrides suggests an abundance of suitable sites for palaeoecological studies , on closer examination several are unsuitable for detailed investigation . |
| 23 | These squatter settlements have sprung up in great abundance , generally in undesirable and inaccessible areas , which are unsuitable for standard building . |
| 24 | Prone to blockage they are unsuitable for general use . |
| 25 | Very clearly we are not in the business of directing people into modes of prayer that are unsuitable for them . |
| 26 | Pamphlets are unsuitable for open shelf stock . |
| 27 | Publishers ' casings are unsuitable for heavy library use , and many public librarians take up various options for strengthened editions offered by the library suppliers . |
| 28 | Only after it is decided that company collection agencies are unsuitable for the job should outside agencies be contracted to fill in the gaps . |
| 29 | The development of such ‘ industries ’ has also been facilitated by improved communications and transport as well as the need to generate income in areas that have been adversely affected by the economic recession of the early 1980s or which are unsuitable for other kinds of economic activity such as agriculture . |
| 30 | The sycamore ( Acer pseudoplatanus ) is widespread , particularly so on the Downs near the coast where conditions are unsuitable for most other tree species , and it is much favoured by passage migrants . |