Example sentences of "is [adj] [noun sg] for its " in BNC.
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| 1 | THIS nippy number brings a little joy everyday to Risley ! for the distinctive white and blue buggy , one of only 15 in existence , is daily transport for its owner , diminutive Joy Crane , who joined Information Services in Hinton House ten months ago . |
| 2 | It is an opinion shared by ninety per cent of the population and there is some support for its reality in the criticisms of Scripture . |
| 3 | Although that ’ internal ’ needs noting , the restraint — even encouragement — which Mr Gorbachev shows Hungary is another reason for its growing self-confidence abroad . |
| 4 | Left : New from King Door Products is three-point locking for its doors , and this stylish brass-lacquered lock and handle |
| 5 | There is good reason for its common name ; the bruised foliage , whose odour has mint-like associations , induces cats to roll all over the plant , eventually ruining it , but it is said that plants grown from seed will be safe until dying down , or withering for some reason . |
| 6 | One of the advantages of an electronic instrument is that there is considerable flexibility for its positioning . |
| 7 | However , lines of constant bearing plot as straight lines on a Mercator projection and this is one reason for its popularity ; the course of a ship , for instance , could be plotted as a series of straight lines on a map drawn on Mercator 's projection . |
| 8 | That sheep dip is singularly disagreeable to a golden eagle is one reason for its rarity . |
| 9 | Overseas Bechtel Inc , a Bechtel subsidiary , will be selling a Kanji version of O2 Technology SA 's O2 object-oriented data base in Japan which the company believes is strategic ground for its product . |
| 10 | As Hildyard and Olson put it : ‘ the authority of rhetorical conditions are collapsed onto the truth conditions so that if a statement is true to the facts or to the text itself , that is sufficient condition for its being interpersonally appropriate ’ ( ibid. p. 9 ) . |