Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amstrad Plc 's Personal Digital Assistant due for launch on Thursday sounds like a pretty hot property : the Daily Mail has had a sneak preview , and says that it is a £300 device that fits a jacket pocket with a pen-enabled screen on which the user can write notes and draw pictures that can be dumped onto a personal computer — ‘ looks good , feels good and is very clever ’ says the guy that saw it . |
| 2 | The metric used for clustering is derived directly from these traits . |
| 3 | To the right of the kitchener were two cupboards , the top some five feet high used for airing clothes , the lower containing all the necessary paraphernalia for the stove — blacklead and brushes , metal polish for the shiny parts plus the boot and shoe cleaning materials . |
| 4 | SR can not be all things to all women — it must be a reflection of the concerns of its editors , like any magazine and we must remember how harmful struggling for control of our ‘ tiny slice ’ of power can be and put our astonishing energy and feeling into creating a world in which we can expand and fill our rightful share of Smiths with our chosen , positive images of women — the men are n't going to do it for us . |
| 5 | Reviews were mixed but largely went the way of those who saw it as a one-and-a-half-hour commercial for LSD . |
| 6 | Yasmin le Bon and Catherine Zeta Jones were also in the top 10 for Greenbank Drinks Company , Cleveland . |
| 7 | These cars were the last to be constructed by English Electric for Blackpool , and the last trams that they built in their East Works , now used by British Aerospace . |
| 8 | It probably does n't figure among the world 's top ten sellers for databases , but in Britain it 's been in the top three for years . |
| 9 | Produced a detailed brief for health professionals on the ad ban directive |
| 10 | The President 's statement ‘ Humanism in Zambia ’ ( 1967 ) , subsequent declarations at Mulungushi ( 1968 ) , Kabwe ( 1972 ) and the cabinet pronouncement ( 1975 ) that schools must become production units , provide a general , but relatively clear brief for education planners and have been clearly reflected in the Zambian Education Review ( 1976 ) . |
| 11 | On July 24 the UK government ordered the expulsion from the UK of three Iranians accused of involvement in intelligence activity — two working without diplomatic status in the Iranian embassy , and the other a student — whose presence the Home Office said was " not conducive to the public good for reasons of national security " . |
| 12 | During their visit to Scotland , the Khmelnitski staff identified several areas of good practice at Scottish Nuclear for follow-up . |
| 13 | The Ayrshire Cup competition for amateur football teams throughout the county will be sponsored by Scottish Nuclear for £1500 during the next two years with the option for the sponsorship to be extended to 1995/96 . |
| 14 | long sleeve top available for men and women . |
| 15 | A French first for capital 's hi-tech learners |
| 16 | Thus there is probably little extinction in the light available for photosynthesis , but possibly the same ideas could be applied to analyse the light reaching the camera . |
| 17 | It 's also significant that there is no place in the Top Twenty for clothes , religion or politics . |
| 18 | ( There was no direct equivalent for enthusiasm for SSE in Solihull . ) |
| 19 | Carbon is important and deserves to have its own private branch of chemistry , partly because life chemistry is all carbon-chemistry , and partly because those same properties that make carbon-chemistry suitable for life also make it suitable for industrial processes , such as those of the plastics industry . |
| 20 | Within this shrine the Blind Smiths of Vaul forge weapons of power and devices of infinite cunning for use by the Elf Lords . |
| 21 | Top Kenyan for Bangor |
| 22 | The 404 , designed by Michael Jackson and built by Parker , is the opposite of that , a fast trapeze centre-boarder suitable for youngsters when on an 80 per cent main , but which could test lightweight crews of any age with a full rig . |
| 23 | The company also operates a part-exchange scheme where , for example , a Motorola 8800X can be part-exchanged with any old portable for £69 . |
| 24 | Mallachy could be too damn serious for fun . |
| 25 | By Saturday morning I felt real sorry for Mum . |
| 26 | I feel real sorry for Marie . |
| 27 | Rousing send-off for Celia |
| 28 | The terms ‘ adequate ’ and ‘ wellbeing ’ , not to mention ‘ standard of living ’ and even ‘ medical care ’ , are purely subjective : to prescribe a ‘ standard adequate for wellbeing ’ is not to interpret a rule ; it is to make an arbitrary decision , and an arbitrary decision about the compulsion to be exerted upon the members of a society . |
| 29 | A ‘ standard adequate for wellbeing ’ is potentially unrestricted — ‘ the sky 's the limit ’ — and therefore the actual limit imposed and the performance exacted are necessarily arbitrary , the decisions of brute force . |
| 30 | But the average fine for employers breaking the Health and Safety at Work Act last year was just £297 — much lower than fines imposed on large manufacturing companies . |