Example sentences of "[adj] for it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their minds are somehow not right for it ; in some other discipline they might have performed quite respectably . |
| 2 | Nasty work , but the karma was right for it . |
| 3 | And in the right circumstances er it need not be be criticized , but the circumstances have to be right for it . |
| 4 | er , she said you 're just right for it she said , but er she said we 've already finished filming for today , which they had , she said but if you come tomorrow , she said we 're er , we 're filming the dog race |
| 5 | In Britain I do n't think the time is right for it . |
| 6 | And he 'd bought it off his friend who 'd paid fifty for it . |
| 7 | and Lot fourteen is the cabinet now showing , thank you , Lot fourteen , fifty for it fifty pounds anywhere at fifty at fifty pounds fifty at fifty pounds fifty pounds , anywhere at fifty unwanted then at fifty pounds fifty pounds . |
| 8 | Lot thirty one is the Model four six one , Lot thirty one there it is now showing , thank you , fifty for it ? |
| 9 | At fifty for it 's offered fifty pounds at fifty pounds bid five , sixty sixty pounds , any more ? |
| 10 | Now Lot one hundred and four there it is now showing , thank you , Lot a hundred and four , Simplex fifty for it , fifty pounds anywhere ? |
| 11 | Lot number eighty eight Lot number eighty eight the bronze model there 's the bronze model showing and I 'm offered a hundred and fifty for it , one fifty , one sixty , one seventy any more ? |
| 12 | Will you accept three hundred and fifty for it ? |
| 13 | I felt my face go red , as red as it was physically possible for it to go red , and a surge of hate and rage and fear swept through me from nerve ending to brain cell to nerve ending . |
| 14 | The shape of a tapir makes it possible for it to push its way through the thick undergrowth at considerable speed . |
| 15 | They told the inquiry that if a particularly strong FM transmission was made very near the radio it might be possible for it to pick up the sub-harmonic at around 14 MHz but that such a signal could not have emanated from a low-powered , hand-held type of two-way radio . |
| 16 | Mozart , knowing that his father would be devastated by the news , sought to prepare him as gently as possible for it by writing to him that she was gravely ill and at the same time writing to their close friend , Bullinger , telling him the whole story , in the hope that Bullinger could support and comfort his father and sister when he finally broke the news to them , which he was intending to do in a second letter to his father . |
| 17 | In April , the company unexpectedly obtained new contracts which might have made it possible for it to keep him in work . |
| 18 | Then we need to see that as Jesus prayed for it , it is possible for it to occur ! |
| 19 | We must show that it is possible for it to be both a resultant … and a totalizing force … how it can continually bring about the unity of dispersive profusion and integration . |
| 20 | It would hardly have been possible for it to support beauty and extravagance and pleasure at the expense of mere survival , but it did at least hint that such a view could be held , and its mere admission of this possibility was to Clara profoundly satisfying . |
| 21 | By establishing the Centre in an academic institution it will be possible for it to benefit from the other resources of the University and at the same time enable the knowledge gained from the research to be linked directly to social work training . |
| 22 | Now , if the Liaison Office had got the same number from Maxim , then the embassy gossip vine had to be more security-minded than she believed possible for it not to come to one conclusion . |
| 23 | It would be possible for it to be installed in Canterbury as the majority of calls coming into London are usually transferred to Canterbury anyway . |
| 24 | I must write a grand opera or none at all ; if I write a small one , I shall get very little for it ( for everything is taxed here ) . |
| 25 | One of the reasons why farmers consume so much water is that they pay very little for it — between 1 and 2 per cent of the price paid in cities . |
| 26 | Even in July or August it is possible not only to find accommodation but to pay very little for it . |
| 27 | If , as a result of its inquiries under s47 , it concludes that certain action should be taken to safeguard or promote a child 's welfare it must take that action so far as it is both within its power and reasonably practicable for it to do so ( s47(8) ) . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , I am sorry for it but there is nothing I can do . |
| 29 | Looking up , she saw her old mistress understood perfectly her misery and confusion and was sorry for it but there was also an air of what looked remarkably like satisfaction about her . |
| 30 | The child of one of her lodgers died in her house in April of an undiagnosed heart complaint — the tiny thing 's heart simply stopped as it lay in its cot — and though she was sorry for it and sympathetic to the last degree she was aware that inside herself she shrugged and felt none of the horror and distress such an event would once have caused her . |