Example sentences of "be adapted for [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Clear evidence shows that many children buy books that have been adapted for television ( though there is less evidence about the number who read them ) .
2 Jane Hissey ‘ s Old Bear Stories , published by Random House Children 's Books , have been adapted for television and will be screened across the ITV network in the autumn .
3 ‘ There are 1 million home computers in the country which could be adapted for Prestel … there is the potential of a quantum leap in Prestel usage .
4 Pheasant : readily available and surprisingly cheap , any chicken recipe can be adapted for pheasant .
5 Engineers from the DoT are to look at the southbound-only A1(M) and A66(M) interchange near the town to see if it can be adapted for northbound traffic .
6 There was nothing that could be adapted for lock-picking , not even a paperclip .
7 This will be adapted for children of different ages .
8 I shall repeat it as he works it for adults and then suggest how it might be adapted for children .
9 It has been assumed by some writers that statements of attainment should be adapted for children with learning difficulties by producing more detailed learning hierarchies than the statutory orders provide .
10 Lord Finlay implied that the trust mechanism could be adapted for use in international law , whereby a new State could be a beneficiary of rights contained in an agreement between other States which are bound by the agreement to accord it those rights .
11 The techniques can be adapted for use in your studies to great effect .
12 A textbook for the development of oral skills in English for the foreign business professional or student which can be adapted for use with various class sizes , student needs and interests , language levels and time constraints .
13 The cash will be used to buy a computer which will be adapted for use by disabled children .
14 I should like to put the contrary view that an understanding of theory is of primary importance because this provides a general perspective on the nature of language which influences pedagogic principles and indicates how different descriptions might be adapted for classroom use .
15 The cost of producing a new commercial could not be justified — the Indonesian beer market is still relatively small , although growing — so PTGI scoured the GBW network for existing advertisements which might be adapted for Indonesia .
16 At Winfrith , a range of skills developed for nuclear modelling and inspection were adapted for use by the offshore oil industry .
17 Also , more and more of our UK educational materials are now being adapted for use in countries , for instance Malaysia and Singapore , which are short of good English-language teaching resources on science and the environment .
18 Now his latest novel , Harlot 's Ghost , a CIA-based counter-history of post-war America , is being adapted for Francis Ford Coppola by Apocalypse Now co-writer John Milius — a mingling of warped machismo which promises greatness .
19 It 's a bird does not entail It is adapted for flight
20 The typical bird is adapted for flight .
21 It 's a bird , but it 's adapted for flight .
22 Amanda frequently reflected upon the fruits of the field , how various they were , and yet how perfectly each was adapted for Man 's enjoyment .
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