Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In such circumstances councillors and officials can be sanctioned and made personally liable for misappropriated funds . |
| 2 | The changing demographic composition also has implications for the physical housing stock — trends towards non-family , smaller households suggest that the traditional three-bedroom house is becoming less appropriate for present needs . |
| 3 | ALL WHEEL STEER NOW AVAILABLE FOR EXTRA MANOEUVRABILITY ! |
| 4 | Biological markers are becoming increasingly important for early detection of an increased cancer risk and as intermediate end points for chemoprevention trials . |
| 5 | While Allen rather relishes the fact that his rhetoric is still considered too dangerous for earthbound TV , he is not quite so happy about the programme 's title . |
| 6 | It is now considered too strong for internal use and can cause vomiting . |
| 7 | The Guynemers could trace courageous ancestors back to Charlemagne , but few heroes looked less the part than Georges , with his almost effeminate beauty and frail , spindly body that was three times rejected as unfit for military service . |
| 8 | It became more difficult for devout persons to explain why unforeseen disaster should overtake a religious group . |
| 9 | This construction of article 5(3) is , I think , reinforced , as Mr. Tecks submitted , by the consideration that the words , ‘ harmful event , ’ while completely appropriate for claims in tort or delict or quasi-delict , seem most inappropriate for restitutionary claims . |
| 10 | The ‘ adaptive ’ function is based on the proposition that what we call crime today includes forms of behaviour that will be crucially necessary to future society — Durkheim 's ( 1938 ) examples , are the ideas of Socrates and liberal philosophy which were once criminalised but which he sees as vital for contemporary society . |
| 11 | ‘ Although Dr Lassiere 's findings seem quite encouraging for Central region , we should not be complacent , ’ warned Operation Brightwater campaign Officer Valerie Johnston . |
| 12 | The personal desktop computer is growing too powerful for stand-alone desktop use . |
| 13 | Proper jargon uses a shorthand of technical words and phrases to simplify , for the knowledgeable reader , matter too complicated for everyday English . |
| 14 | There is a danger in letting the drama become too real for young children ; we do n't want the dragons and giants of the drama to follow them home and give them nightmares . |
| 15 | So controversial has some of the advertising become that not long ago , a commercial for New England 's Ice Cream based on a spoof scene from the film When Harry Met Sally was thought too blatant for normal TV viewing . |
| 16 | Elsewhere , the close-up , detailed approach which works brilliantly , say , for Imogen Stubbs 's affecting Desdemona ( the pathos of her disoriented , jittery jauntiness intensified by beautiful touches such as the sepia photograph of her estranged father she keeps on the bedside table in Cyprus or the chocolates from Casio that she has secreted in a locked draw , not because she fears sexual misconstruction but because she would like to be thought too grown-up for frivolous sweet-guzzling by Othello ) paradoxically diminishes Iago because it encourages the belief that he can be realistically ‘ explained ’ like a figure in a novel . |
| 17 | It became logically possible for bureaucratic structures to perform all four input and all three output functions . |
| 18 | Perhaps the clearest expression of Shevardnadze 's views was a speech he delivered in April 1986 on the anniversary of Lenin 's birth , some months after he had become professionally responsible for foreign affairs . |
| 19 | The reasons for the decline in this sector of the housing market may be seen in terms of simple demand and supply analysis : the letting of accommodation has become less desirable for landlords and other forms of tenure have become more attractive for potential tenants . |
| 20 | These two notions , which we shall explain shortly , have become increasingly important for current research on social mobility and social stratification , for both neo-Weberian and neo-Marxist sociologists ( see e.g. Murphy , 1986 ) . |
| 21 | The latter benefits have become increasingly important for top wage earners as a means of ‘ topping up ’ salaries . |
| 22 | But now I feared I was getting too old for romantic friendships . |
| 23 | The gasifier-powered vehicle is probably at too great a disadvantage to survive the snarling dogfights of traffic in metropolitan Manila , but it seems perfectly adequate for rural use . |
| 24 | ‘ Arc is a specialist tool , not for everyday use , which we have found particularly useful for regional mapping . |
| 25 | It seems particularly suitable for first-time buyers or highly mobile individuals , where the level of debt could prove more important than the possible future value of an investment plan such as an endowment policy . |
| 26 | No boxing match seems too trivial for live coverage , basketball and volleyball draw vast audiences , Formula One racing grips the nation and there is an inexhaustible appetite for football , to the extent that Saturday night English soccer is a major viewing habit . |
| 27 | Major financiers and industrialists , notably those in St Petersburg , were made acutely conscious of their dependence on ministerial goodwill and it became increasingly common for senior officials to take up directorships on the boards of leading companies . |
| 28 | She felt intensely sorry for poor Brian , living as he did with anxiety and insecurity , and had never seen the necessity of channelling any of her pity back into her own parched reserves . |
| 29 | He added : ‘ The IRA , for too long , has been able to conceal its real sectarianism but recently the mask has begun to slip as they become more desperate for political success . ’ |
| 30 | It is often the case that the definition of administrative regions within countries tends to reflect certain historical and institutional processes which , although they might have produced some degree of spatial cohesion , do not necessarily accord with what one might view as appropriate for economic scrutiny . |