Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adj] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only in the tenth and eleventh centuries that it became normal or common for giant churches to be built . |
| 2 | Seeking high and low for new rewards and new ways forward . |
| 3 | Jay 's car was twenty years old and useless for long journeys . |
| 4 | The main purpose of the poem was to offer advice concerning the regulation of the activities of the year , particular days being of good or evil omen , appropriate or inappropriate for different activities . |
| 5 | I will observe , Chairman , that there are reasonable and honourable and relatively well meaning people who truly believe that they have a natural right to hunt down foxes with dogs indeed to call the dogs hounds and believe that nobody has the right to interfere with their pleasures er , i in press they would no doubt speak of the right of free born Englishmen to do what they like but I 'd like them to consider Chairman , views of what it is right and proper for human beings to do have changed , as readers of John 's diaries will recall , barely three hundred years ago , he saw a woman being burned to death er in London for murdering her husband and people watched and no doubt thought that it was the right of free born Englishmen to enjoy the spectacle . |
| 6 | Her therapist held that it was natural and healthy for human beings to assume that bad things happened only to other people in remote areas . |
| 7 | I like the desert green for the cusp of the evening , Caribbean pink for the smallest dot of night , yellow , white and red for post-pub crowds . |
| 8 | The next two centuries saw an extensive use of this method of book illustration , but it was too costly and delicate for large editions . |
| 9 | Using only the mildest ingredients , all products are fragrance-free and suitable for sensitive skins . |
| 10 | The beach is really shallow and safe for young families . |
| 11 | This list is not exhaustive and it is always open to a party seeking transfer to satisfy the court that the case is exceptionally grave , important or complex for other reasons . |
| 12 | The merest mention of the word ‘ sex ’ is more than sufficient for Old Cyclops to start straining against the trousers before jumping to attention as if he has been plugged into a battery-charger . |
| 13 | As usual , all rigs are fully interchangeable and ready for instant swaps . |
| 14 | Mellanby located the causes in environmental and even cultural factors — the greater intermingling of city children , overcrowded dwellings or — in girls the fashion for ‘ permanent waves ’ , in which hair would be set and then left uncombed and unwashed for long periods . |
| 15 | The Commission has been saddened to hear of cases where clergy and organists make it difficult or impossible for serious pupils to practise . |
| 16 | As Dr Johnson observed : ‘ sounds are too volatile and subtile for legal restraints ’ ( Bolton , 1966 : 152 ) , and the history of English phonology is not a history of the standard at all , but a history of vernaculars . |
| 17 | Rank 's attempt to carve out a niche in the American market failed because his films were too slow and talkative for transatlantic tastes . |
| 18 | The controversy was quite fierce and embarrassing for Conservative ministers . |
| 19 | Industrial Hire Purchase — the same as hire-purchase for personal customers but for items of capital equipment . |
| 20 | This organisation happily ploughs a furrow totally at odds with the notion of free trade , by making it as difficult as Possible for non-German companies to sell their wares in Germany without DIN approval — even where EEC law says that the only approval necessary is from the country of origin . |
| 21 | ‘ The charter is ill-conceived and bad for small firms , ’ he told the Confederation of British Industry 's small firms council . |
| 22 | At the end of January the government froze the prices of 14 staple goods , in a measure which Dimitrov described as anti-market but necessary for social reasons . |