Example sentences of "be [adj -er] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In plots in the Queensland rain forest , seedling recruitment of subcanopy trees and understorey species was found to be lower for common than for rare species : for canopy species there was no such correlation . |
| 2 | Competitors have claimed that it would be easier for independent suppliers to break into the market if the purchasing power of the former state monopoly was diminished by breaking up the business . |
| 3 | The author , Gavin Alexander , until recently head of Hampton School in Middlesex , for boys aged 11 to 18 years , says it might be better for 13-year-old pupils to be assessed in this way rather than sitting the Common Entrance and then being assessed again a year later . |
| 4 | If this is what has occurred , ‘ more lateralised ’ would be better for visuo-spatial ability and ‘ less lateralised ’ would be better for language . |
| 5 | I find it odd when it is suggested that it would be better for other people to grow the tobacco and for us to import it — as though that would help the health of the Community . |
| 6 | Some manufacturers now make thicker condoms that may be better for anal sex , but the very thick varieties are ‘ too thick ’ to pass the British Standard and are therefore not Kitemarked . |
| 7 | Different scales of provision ( transport for locality or large city , community schools or further education ) may be better for different systems . |
| 8 | Reaction times to photographs of faces in a same-different task were reported to be faster for left than for right hemifield presentation by Geffen , Bradshaw and Wallace ( 1971 ) , Rizzolatti , Umilta and Berlucchi ( 1971 ) , Berlucchi , Brizzolara , Marzi , Rizzolatti and Umilta ( 1974 ) and St John ( 1981 ) . |
| 9 | Nevertheless these are likely to be higher for oesophageal transection and gastric devascularisation patients , given the major operation and the long postoperative stay . |
| 10 | They will be worse for frail , elderly people , for physically and mentally disabled people , and I think people will also be asking the Tory and Liberal Democrat groups why they went for half a million pounds less than they need have done in service provision . |
| 11 | But at least it would be cooler for shifting furniture around . |
| 12 | Discipline , therefore , tended to be stricter for manual workers than for staff , immediate penalties more severe , and the amount of discretion allowed both to the employees and their supervisors much more limited . |
| 13 | Nothing can be finer for honest books than to stand unashamed and free to the air . |