Example sentences of "[adj] for most [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As has been normal for most organized communities that are not based on a money economy , African society was based on slavery ( in the sense of the life-long ownership of human beings who could be traded ) , which sometimes involved plantation work or even being used as a human sacrifice : there is no calculus to compare the disadvantages of local slavery with those of being taken across the Atlantic and used as plantation or mining labour . |
| 2 | The sycamore ( Acer pseudoplatanus ) is widespread , particularly so on the Downs near the coast where conditions are unsuitable for most other tree species , and it is much favoured by passage migrants . |
| 3 | Latest word from the grapevine is that IBM Corp 's 3390-9 disk drive may be put back to June 1 or June 8 ( CI No 2,165 ) , and there is a certain lack of confidence that the thing will be an easy sell given that it is significantly slower than the lower capacity drives , making it unsuitable for most leading edge mainframe applications ( CI No 2,165 ) : the conspiracy theorists conjecture that it is not a product that the sales force and the market actually want , one that could have been developed simply to respond to something a competitor was planning but in the end never launched , but that it has cost sufficient to develop that to write off the effort now would leave a nasty hole in AdStar Inc 's balance sheet — much better to put the thing out in the confidence that some users will bite , and write the work off over perhaps a five-year product life . |
| 4 | His quality of ruthless innocence rendered him unsuitable for most human intercourse . |
| 5 | To take but one of many examples , there is a single code to represent all the variations on the Charnley hip replacement procedure — quite adequate for most statistical purposes but falling short of the detail required for audit and for many of the uses to which medical records are put . |
| 6 | But if resort to civil remedies is impracticable for most individual investors the sanctions of the civil law can not play their proper role . |
| 7 | The second is that the proposals are considered to be impracticable for most small companies and their auditors . |
| 8 | This ‘ normal ’ requirement is seen by many commentators as being totally impracticable for most small companies , and fairly difficult even for some large companies , particularly given the extended period which now needs to be considered . |
| 9 | A most probable value of 2.5 × 10 23 has been found to be acceptable for most flexible heterodisperse polymers in good solvents . |
| 10 | Without full anti-discrimination legislation , the charter will be meaningless for most disabled people . |
| 11 | Moreover , the technology that is commonly available for large cement factories is inappropriate for most developing countries . |
| 12 | All would stress that our view of marriage as a private alliance concerning almost exclusively two people is totally inappropriate for most non-capitalist societies , especially those based on descent groups . |
| 13 | Whilst Lympho-paque is ideal for most mammalian lymphocytes . |
| 14 | Ordinary-quality facing bricks will be ideal for most outdoor walling , but you may want to consider using special-quality bricks in particularly exposed areas . |
| 15 | This would be ideal for most local newspapers and many others besides . |
| 16 | My forge is raised on a table at a height ( approximately 30in ) comfortable for most Western blacksmiths . |
| 17 | 6.2 The Lease and the counterpart shall be prepared by the Landlord 's Solicitors and an engrossment of the counterpart shall be delivered to the offices of the Tenant 's Solicitors at least [ 5 ] working days before the Completion Date Five working days is too short for most institutional tenants to execute and return documentation , particularly where the tenant 's solicitor has to check the engrossment against the agreed form attached to the agreement for lease . |
| 18 | There are at least four species of which C parvum seems to be responsible for most human infection . |
| 19 | The WIIC is a unitary authority , responsible for most local services , which elsewhere in the United Kingdom are divided between two separate tiers of local government . |
| 20 | After a five week training course the crews will be deemed qualified for most low-level missions . |
| 21 | The documents are stored in their native format and translated into searchable text by Apple 's XTND technology , which enables users to view the text of documents without having the application that created them — the company claims that XTND translators are available for most major word processing packages . |
| 22 | Legal aid is available for most High Court actions . |
| 23 | When she began to use contraception at the age of 42 she probably did so without her husband 's knowledge , but this would have been difficult for most working class women , given the lack of privacy in their homes . |
| 24 | But it might be difficult for most white people to understand what that means , as there is a different atmosphere in the West . |
| 25 | Document sources are indispensible for most local history studies . |
| 26 | At present it is expensive for most private investors . |
| 27 | It was too expensive for most private individuals there to send telegrams ; the network was used almost exclusively by the authorities . |
| 28 | Built from continuous cast iron it is suitable for most common gauges from 15″ to standard . |
| 29 | The usual mixture suitable for most aquatic plants , i.e. clay or sand and peat will be most suitable . |
| 30 | It 's already competitive for most remote site applications , says Shah , who reckons that distributed integration will be cost-competitive by the end of the decade . |