Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] for [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The patient also has to learn to judge water temperature , and you have to be careful in the early stages that it is never too hot or cold for his comfort . |
| 2 | At the same time there are local choirs which strive to follow slavishly the cathedral model , even where this is either unsuccessful in terms of quality or inappropriate for their congregation . |
| 3 | Since the start of NEP schoolteachers had had to rely on the local mir , skhod , or Soviet for their pay . |
| 4 | I am more than grateful for their generous and spontaneous responses to our questionnaire , made in some cases in times of personal difficulty , strain or distress . |
| 5 | HARD-UP university students from the Southern Board area may have to wait longer than usual for their grants after Thursday night 's bomb attack in Armagh badly damaged the Board 's offices . |
| 6 | A Fluval 4 is more than adequate for your aquarium . |
| 7 | Basing themselves at York might have suited their training schedules and their travel arrangements , but it has been less than ideal for their public relations . |
| 8 | The Restaurant , although renowned for its seafood also boasts and good selection of meat and poultry dishes as well as vegetarian dishes e.g. the special vegetarian paella . |
| 9 | Shirley Hughes 's The Big Alfie Out of Doors Storybook ( TS403 — one cassette ; 33 minutes ) read by Thora Hird is a lovely listen for the very young and more than tolerable for their elders . |
| 10 | This meant that Alison was more than ready for her next challenge as one of four marketing controllers appointed after the branch strategy review — in at the deep end again . |
| 11 | Reactivity to thyroglobulin and the prostatic antigens was not included in the discriminate analysis , as these markers seemed highly sensitive and specific for their respective tumours and therefore would not contribute to the analysis . |
| 12 | I was astonished by the number of people there and grateful for their warmth and support , but I felt I had to convince everybody to take the campaign home with them . |
| 13 | One man hurt his shoulder , one his knee , one had a slight cut on the back and I was only bruised — I felt very elated , glad to be alive , amazed and grateful for our miraculous escape . |
| 14 | I dare say somebody 's already said it to you but the family were very comforted and grateful for your service . |
| 15 | The regulatory regime brought in by the Financial Services Act has been costly and disruptive for offices and confusing for their customers . |
| 16 | She 'd done it the night before when she 'd tried to get hold of Jessica , but Aunt Jane had turned the radio up so loudly ( to make it nice and private for her niece ) that she 'd hardly been able to decipher Mrs Roberts ' apology for her daughter 's absence . |
| 17 | I feel sorry for Laverne and sorry for his mother . |
| 18 | parents should always arrange if possible for their children to see old people of marked interest in their lives , so as to carry on the links of tradition … |
| 19 | ( I would even catch myself , sometimes , drawing myself up and standing extra straight and tall for his benefit . ) |
| 20 | They are tall and proud in their bearing and though they have a slim build they are surprisingly strong and agile for their size . |
| 21 | Though tall and strong for his age he had no liking for hard physical work and he was slow to give Moran any help on the land . |
| 22 | To make himself especially lean and bronzed for his meeting with the young actress Henna Mickiewicz . |
| 23 | Chatchai is tall and slim for his age , with dark brown hair and eyes , and speaks broken English . |
| 24 | The combination of two struggling sides , though , made for a game that was too frantic and unimaginative for its own good . |
| 25 | Other residents are equally angry and fearful for their health |
| 26 | Did I not tell you that I must keep you well and visible for my own protection ? ’ |
| 27 | He could have continued placidly with the life he had chosen , and would have excelled ; but telegrams of a peremptory nature , saying his mother 's illness had taken a turn for the worse and he must come , kept arriving from Colonel Carteret , and Paul had to leave his work , abandon lectures , and make the weary journey to London time and again , only to find Sophia weak but resigned , and reproachful for his having come at all . |
| 28 | By their work they are promoting the idea that goods should be of merchantable quality and fit for their purpose . |
| 29 | His mother , Jemima , was a more forceful character , hard-working and ambitious for her four children , but possibly over-protective of their interests and too demanding of their talents . |
| 30 | Strong-willed and ambitious for her children , she did not retain the affection of her youngest child , Samuel , despite her early devotion to him , and left him in adult life with an obscure and painful sense that she had treated him cruelly . |