Example sentences of "what is [adv] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | At present the unavoidably large cartridge makes life complicated for backpackers trying to limit their fuel load to what is strictly necessary for longer trips . |
| 2 | The purpose of the rest of this book is to give you the information you need to compile the missing nutritional manual that will tell you what is just right for your body . |
| 3 | That means helping them not only to make any additional or different arrangements to what is ‘ normally available for all ’ to meet the needs of particular children , but also to review and develop the general curriculum , so that ‘ what is normally available for all ’ can itself be gradually transformed to provide better learning opportunities for all children in the future . |
| 4 | ‘ Help with the modern technology and improved communications is what is most important for us now , ’ said Peteris Apse , the manager of the press . |
| 5 | What is more significant for our purpose is that proportion of premium income which found its way into the acquisition of other financial assets . |
| 6 | What is more important for our purposes is the way in which the aggregate demand curve interacts with the aggregate supply curve to determine the equilibrium general level of prices and the equilibrium level of output ; we are especially interested in the nature of that interaction when expectations are rational . |
| 7 | What is more disturbing for small firms is the propensity of large companies to increase the length of credit notes when their own liquidity is tight , thereby transferring part of their financial burden onto suppliers . |
| 8 | What is perhaps unusual for a family business was that we had members of the family at very different levels in the company . |
| 9 | As Rowntree put it , life on the poverty line is governed by the regulation that ‘ nothing must be bought but what is absolutely necessary for the maintenance of physical health ’ ( Rowntree , 1941 , p. 103 ) . |
| 10 | What is peculiarly difficult for Solidarity is that , as a trade union its power base is identical with that of the OPZZ , namely the museums of Socialist gigantism , from the Nowa Huta steelworks to the shipyards on the Baltic . |
| 11 | However , she must also have been thinking of Annabelle ( bride 's name ) when she added , ‘ She was of course only too good for him : but as nobody minds what is too good for them , he was very steadily earnest in pursuit of the blessing . ’ |
| 12 | With the growing problem worldwide of stone decay caused by atmospheric pollution , conservators are turning to modern technology for quicker and more accurate ways to record what is still extant for posterity . |
| 13 | He says in the autobiography erm my view was that every president was a and this was a famous phrase every president was a steward of the people , a steward of the people , bound actively and affirmatively to do all he could for the people and not to content himself with the negative merit of keeping his talents undamaged in a napkin curious turn of phrase I decline he says to adopt the view that what is imperatively necessary for the nation can not be done unless the president can find some specific authorization to do it in the constitution . |