Example sentences of "be room " in BNC.

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1 It 's colder than , than you 're room up there .
2 You , no point in us getting that , you 're room 's not really ready to get painted yet .
3 They were all thin people — there 'd almost have been room for a fourth person in the double his parents had bought him as a wedding present , so getting three people in it was certainly not an impossibility .
4 If there had been room in the hallway , he would have swung Wee Charlie round in a circle .
5 There never has been room in the consumer electronic marketplace for two directly competing , but incompatible , systems .
6 She meant to explain that there had n't been room in their cases but before she could speak Miss Evans turned bright red and said quickly , ‘ Oh , I 'm so sorry , how silly of me , why should you ?
7 Always had been room .
8 I wonder how he would have done in today 's game , do you think there would have been room for him today ?
9 If there 'd been room , I 'd have liked to print a ring of 18 mutants around the central tree .
10 Of course , there will always be room for a reassuring and reliable M&S , Boots or WHSmith as a shop of last resort .
11 First , there always has been and always will be room for a small shopkeeper with a bright idea .
12 This social policy might support a duty to enquire about age wherever there might be room for doubt , and the ease of compliance ( because of the inevitable physical proximity of the parties ) again favours the requirement .
13 ‘ But if they ca n't be shifted , there 'll never be room for you , no matter how much better than them you may be at the job . ’
14 There may be many things you would like to say in this report but there will only be room for important ones .
15 That is , assuming there will be room for them once the full panoply of testing and assessment is in place .
16 Amongst such considerations , however , there must still be room for the needs of society , for what the European Convention calls ‘ the protection of health or morals ’ .
17 There 'll be room in our house for someone else .
18 The frame of reference for all this ferment in the official mind remained the idea of the Commonwealth , which during the war received an impetus from the need to show the Americans , in words if not in deeds , that there would be room for a British empire in the brave new post-war world , and also from the genuine idealism stimulated in some British imperialists — as it had been stimulated in the previous war — by a desire to distinguish themselves from the Germans and their imperial ambitions .
19 Once new operators start to look towards the itchy-footed turboprop pilots to fulfil their needs , everyone can start moving up a step and there may again be room on the first rung of the ladder .
20 Possibly the pendulum has swung too far in that people have gone from feeling that somewhere in a marriage there should be room to accommodate their personal feelings , to believing that their feelings are everything . ’
21 There may well be room for one or two such centres in other places , but in our view the success of the centre in Birmingham owes a very great deal to the almost evangelical enthusiasm of those who run it .
22 She shook her head disbelievingly and I explained the Council 's plan which was to shift one or two caravans — and re-house the families in them — but only so there would be room to make a decent road into the plot .
23 There should be room in a 15″ wide tank .
24 Dick 's fighter was not without its problems , the primary one being that the fuselage had been modified with a hacksaw so that there would be room to put a second seat in the airframe .
25 ‘ You mean there might not be room in my head for all those brains so something has to push out ? ’
26 There should just be room for your finger , and your toes should not feel cramped .
27 Roger Sippl reckons the market for customer service management software and systems will grow to be as big as the Manufacturing Resource Planning ( MRP ) market is now , and expects there will be room enough for three players .
28 In any piece of fiction there must be room for the reader — room for him to jump at a suggestion , to insert himself into a story , to respond to hints and clues : to be told what is offered to him is to encourage him to read passively and so to give him less than he deserves .
29 Check before you buy that there will be room for the drawers to open .
30 Looking about him at the great press of people , the escalator that was a river of people flowing on and on , the crowds that streamed down the stairs so that if a train was held up there would be room for no more to squeeze on to the platform , he wondered why a terrorist group had never thought of putting a bomb in the tube .
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