Example sentences of "suitable [noun] for [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since she hated cinnamon water next only to cod-liver oil it would be a suitable penance for having given Miss Beard a nasty moment . |
| 2 | A suitable plasmid for expressing CFTR protein was constructed in the vector pREP8 ( see legend to Fig. 1 ) . |
| 3 | All schemes involved weeks and sometimes months of furtive planning , decisions on route and disguise , invention of a suitable story for travelling purposes and sometimes even the learning of a new language . |
| 4 | They have experienced considerable movement and disruption in care , and have inadequate knowledge of their past , too little suitable preparation for leaving care , and little or no reliable help and support once they have left . |
| 5 | Users of the 1991 census should nevertheless carefully consider whether crude population totals are the most suitable base for measuring penetration . |
| 6 | You 'll only hear from us if we want your program , or if you 've enclosed return postage and a suitable mailer for returning disks we 're unable to use . |
| 7 | It has often been said that because of the restrictions on discovery , interrogatories and cross-examination under Ord. 53 , the AJR is not a suitable vehicle for resolving factual disputes , and this provides a justification for not requiring collateral attacks to be made by way of an AJR . |
| 8 | But there are no suitable harbours for landing the dredged spoil . |
| 9 | The row that followed the announcement of a programme of drilling to find a suitable site for burying high-level waste — and resulted in the programme being called off two years ago — has led NIREX to abandon any hope of drilling to find the best geological formation for the intermediate waste . |
| 10 | The [ Parliamentary ] recess would be a suitable moment for having an overhaul of the committee system and seeing whether any could be reduced . |
| 11 | She believed it would have been the suitable punishment for killing Mrs MacAllister as the two walked together in a remote forest in March last year . |
| 12 | This chapter includes several suggestions for growing suitable plants for pressing in your garden , plus plenty of ideas if you would like to grow plants but do n't have the luxury of a lot of space . |
| 13 | You reckon Hatton would also have told him the river bed was full of stones one of which would make a suitable weapon for knocking off his informant ? ’ |
| 14 | It may not be money that he wants ; and even if he would be satisfied with money , it may be very hard to say what would be a fair compensation for his loss , and a jury may not be the most suitable body for assessing it . |
| 15 | A suitable fish for showing ? |
| 16 | Nor did it impress the Arab states , which pointed out that if Israel was able to absorb hundreds of thousands of Jews it could certainly absorb more than 100,000 Palestinian returnees ; or the United States , which did not think the Israeli offer ‘ provide[d] a suitable basis for contributing to solution of Arab refugee question . ’ |
| 17 | It has to be admitted that Shetland is not the most suitable place for wintering waders . |
| 18 | Armies chose these banks as suitable places for crossing the Rhine , and a particularly eventful time was around the end of the eighteenth century and the start of the next . |
| 19 | The system manager would also be the contact to whom the supplier would turn when arranging suitable dates for updating software , for example , and other maintenance work . |
| 20 | Typically there will be a warrior set , composed of those of the suitable age for fighting , while beneath them , in both age and status , will be a set of initiates . |
| 21 | These gates move in vertical grooves , with suitable means for ensuring a watertight closure . |
| 22 | Marketing contributes principally by identifying market opportunities for the organization , by designing a suitable strategy for meeting those opportunities , and then by implementing approved plans , in collaboration with other departments . |
| 23 | Dictionary definitions constitute a valuable source of semantic knowledge , and the definitional overlap technique has been shown to be a suitable method for applying such knowledge . |
| 24 | Greenwich was set up as a new meridian which would suit the astronomers ' convenience , and the government relied on them to make the new meridian into a suitable base-line for calculating the longitude . |
| 25 | 6.4 Without prejudice to the generality of Clause [ 6.1 a ] each Party undertakes to establish suitable procedures for ensuring that technical and other information of other Parties is restricted to those employees , or as the case may be members of staff or students , needing such information for the purposes of the duties assigned to them and that all such employees , members of staff and students are themselves subject to suitable obligations of confidence . |
| 26 | Textbooks have a register of their own and do not provide a suitable model for imitating in your essay-writing . |
| 27 | A suitable medium for culturing white worm consists of equal parts of loam and peat which is just moist . |
| 28 | Tape-slide presentations appear to be a suitable medium for conveying the type of information used in library education . |
| 29 | While this should not , of course , be taken to imply that female listeners lack intelligence , it does suggest that radio is not perhaps a suitable medium for putting across complex ideas or instructions . |
| 30 | The commercial section of the industry might develop suitable videos for hiring out . |