Example sentences of "[adj] for [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fit a new timing belt drive as it is about due for one , set accurately and the problem will hopefully disappear . |
| 2 | We 're about due for one — I might bring you in on it . ’ |
| 3 | And a lot more profitable for everyone concerned . |
| 4 | it 's not gon na be right for somebody is n't it ? |
| 5 | but you 've got to you 've got to address both of those schools and ask yourself is it right for one to subsidise another . |
| 6 | I think if god come back down and to be prime minister he 's not gon na be right for everybody is he ? |
| 7 | Whoever it , whoever it is it 's not gon na be right for everybody . |
| 8 | Dhansak , Masala , Kashmiri and Korma are all too rich for someone who is seriously trying to keep the weight down . |
| 9 | You 've never done nuthin' for nobody in the whole of your mean , miserable life ! ’ |
| 10 | He usually drew forty pounds from his personal account each week so he must have needed two hundred and fifty for something . ’ |
| 11 | Much of it just fails to scan correctly — very odd for someone who was lecturing and giving tutorials on English poetry . |
| 12 | It is rather odd for someone who tends to denigrate official footpaths to be promoting a link between the Pennine and West Highland Ways . |
| 13 | In a group of 20 or 30 youngsters from the background described by my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff , West ( Mr. Morgan ) it would be considered odd for someone to be puffing away and spreading filth in the direction of others in that group . |
| 14 | Twenty years of police service had convinced him that Murphy 's law applied especially to police operations — no matter how meticulously they were planned , if it were remotely possible for something to fuck up , then it would ! |
| 15 | So I 've suggested there are at least two answers possible for something else is alive . |
| 16 | Through ceaseless activity and a triumph of will-power , she had by 1987 come as near to success as was possible for one , self-sufficient human being . |
| 17 | ‘ It would not have been possible for one to sit upon the throne alongside a woman one no longer loved and lived with . |
| 18 | Or was it possible for one individual to be in the position of a net ‘ receiver ’ for some considerable time because of an expectation that they would be able to reciprocate at some stage in the future ? |
| 19 | " I would think that to follow your thought in this instance is only possible for one to whom the message of Tristan , in particular , has been revealed . " |
| 20 | But er I knew that it was n't poss always possible for one to be at the branch meeting you see . |
| 21 | I did n't think it was possible for somebody to stand in the middle of the fairway and say it 's an iron of any description . |
| 22 | In a small school it is possible for everyone to start their different distances together . |
| 23 | This is not possible for everyone , and it is not something to be undertaken lightly , but it may be the only answer for some babies . |
| 24 | Delusion is possible for everyone : feeling certain does not mean that therefore the world is as we think it is . |
| 25 | I think that 's diff you see I , I do n't think that 's possible for everybody to keep in touch with everybody else , I think you 've got to have one person , that everybody looks to , to say , right |
| 26 | How is it possible for someone to take my or anybody 's sin upon himself ? |
| 27 | In Newham there were better domiciliary services in 1984 than in Ipswich ( for example it was possible for someone to have seven-day-a-week home help and meals-on-wheels cover ; there were day centres and day hospitals , and a good deal of voluntary organisation provision ) . |
| 28 | If either Karen or I had had any idea that it was possible for someone to drown so quickly , we would no doubt have thrown caution to the wind and dived in . |
| 29 | Nobody likes to think about death … especially premature death … but the miracles of modern medicine now make it possible for someone who dies to give life to another . |
| 30 | What emerges from this example is that there can be situations of moral dilemma which impose limits on what it is possible for someone to do . |