Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] is [adv] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , expressed guilt may be so deep as to become delusional , generalised to the point where the individual believes that he or she is personally responsible for some major catastrophe or for all of the evil that exists in the world . |
| 2 | If a member leaves the band , he or she is only responsible for the debts incurred prior to his or her leaving . |
| 3 | Identification of polymer samples can be made by making use of the ‘ finger-print ’ region , where it is least likely for one polymer to exhibit exactly the same spectrum as another . |
| 4 | For example , while the /r/ of person is pronounced ( as it would be in JC ) [ P15 ] , the speaker has also pronounced /r/ in mother , where it is less usual for Jamaicans to pronounce it , and at the end of Jamaica , where it does not occur historically at all . |
| 5 | There are examples of these arrangements in relations between highly skilled workers and employers , where it is quite common for wage and employment levels to be determined not by current market conditions , but by mutual agreement between the parties . |
| 6 | This contrasts with projects done in junior or earlier secondary classes where it is more usual for a group of pupils or even a whole class to participate , often sharing the work between them , pooling the results and producing a joint account . |
| 7 | She decides at this point in the story , that nothing is too bad for those people who have tried to humiliate her throughout her life . |
| 8 | We have been in Britain more than a year now , so the Home Office has extended her visa , but each time they extend it it is only by three months or six months so that she is never eligible for school . |
| 9 | Always make sure that whoever is nominally responsible for your home and its contents knows where you are going and , if you are going abroad , with which tour operator in the United Kingdom you are dealing . |
| 10 | Although it is perfectly possible for Hunter to have acquired his own Egyptian mummy for dissection , it appears from the above that he did not . |
| 11 | ‘ Hopefully it will save other lives , although it is too late for my son . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Hopefully it will save other lives , although it is too late for my son . ’ |
| 13 | This means that the three remaining days will be packed more tightly and although it is too late for this academic year we will in subsequent years have one day at the start of each term . |
| 14 | Although it is sometimes useful for approximate calculations to suppose that ν T is an ( empirical ) constant , in general ( 19.18 ) should be regarded as the defining equation of ν T rather than an equation for . |
| 15 | And I have to explain to them that , although it is now customary for every individual member to contest the deputy leadership , it is not yet compulsory under rule . ’ |
| 16 | Since Rita has been sent to Coventry , she has not been told that it is physically possible for her to open up the incubator herself and put her hands in . |
| 17 | The point of this book is to demonstrate that the concept of the global system does have genuine scientific validity and , indeed , that it is increasingly necessary for the analysis of a growing number of rapidly changing phenomena . |
| 18 | Obviously , the answer is , ‘ For the ego , ’ but we have no right to suppose that it is equally defensive for the culture . |
| 19 | Of course there is an argument for substitution , and other projects have used such a method ( see below ) ; it is often suggested for example that it is particularly hard for the elderly mentally frail to cope with a variety of different service-providers . |
| 20 | It would seem that it is particularly difficult for older children ( over twelve ) , institutionalised children , or children with behaviour or severe learning difficulties , to settle in new families , at least without serious and lasting problems . |
| 21 | Both the idea that it is desirable for adult children to live with parents , and the custom that it is most desirable for this arrangement to be with the husband 's rather than the wife 's parents , contrast with ideas commonly held in Britain about desirable relationships between parents and children in adult life . |
| 22 | In the latter case Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. referred to the ‘ wholly mistaken notion that it is somehow demeaning for the most senior judges to have their decisions examined and passed upon by those who are judicially their juniors . ’ |
| 23 | Such exposures are destroying long-held notions that it is somehow unpatriotic for American investors to sell short the shares of American companies . |
| 24 | Amstrad has eschewed the popular PenPoint operating system on the grounds that it is overly complex for the PDA 's requirements — which is basically to emulate a paper-based organiser , and that it requires too much processor horse-power . |
| 25 | The key aspects of public goods are ( 1 ) that it is technically possible for one person to consume without reducing the amount available for someone else , and ( 2 ) the impossibility of excluding anyone from consumption except at a prohibitive cost . |
| 26 | During the use of some programs , eg , PIRATES ( see reference 1 ) , if the pace of the lesson is not controlled , so much information is contained in pupil responses and computer responses that it is almost impossible for the teacher to process it as efficiently as he would like . |
| 27 | Finally , I believe that it is less important for feminists to establish a particular set of nonsexist conventions as ‘ standard ’ than to make people aware of the non-neutrality of language . |
| 28 | Sleight apologised for this state of affairs at the Congress in Dublin in 1895 : " It must be remembered that it is exceedingly difficult for the executive committee to meet together often , for every time they do so they have to bear their own travelling expenses , and sometimes hotel expenses ; and to whatever centre they are summoned , it only means that some members of the committee have to travel a considerable distance . |
| 29 | But this suggests that it is actually impossible for Hegel to realise what appears to be an ideal notion of the relationship between lovers . |
| 30 | The 103/4 really does project the sound out and away from itself ; so much so in fact that it is genuinely hard sometimes to believe that it is actually responsible for what one is hearing . |