Example sentences of "[adv] be [adj] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely she 'd only been asleep for five minutes at the very most ? |
| 2 | I 've only been operational for four months and yet already people are beginning to seek me out . |
| 3 | They had all been dead for several days . |
| 4 | The Sun 's fuel is hydrogen nuclei — protons — which alone are useless for commercial fusion . |
| 5 | Cardboards and paper can obviously be useful for prolific artists or those travelling light ! |
| 6 | Cardboards and paper can obviously be useful for prolific artists or those travelling light ! |
| 7 | The funding will only be visible for three years , as it gradually merges into the personal social services element of the revenue support grant . |
| 8 | Now , we 've got quite a long list , colleagues , of , er , members of the European Parliament and members of Parliament who will be with us during the course of the week for for short stays er Euro European MPs first , er Linden , Cheshire West secretary of the European P L P Steven , Durham , deputy leader of the European P L P Hugh , Strathclyde West Barry , Yorkshire West and from the G M B parliamentary group , er , these MPs may only be present for short periods Nicholas , Newcastle-upon-Tyne East Doug , Newcastle-upon-Tyne North Gerald , George , Hamilton Clive Hammersmith and Giles who 's drawn the short straw , who 's going to give us an address this morning . |
| 9 | In particular , the evaluation of model derivatives and the use of more than one model simultaneously would only be possible for large systems within such a framework . |
| 10 | The miller 's day was dictated by the movements of the tides because his source of power would only be available for short periods of two or three hours at a time . |
| 11 | Classical elasticity as developed in the nineteenth century assumed that the deformations caused on application of load were small ; in fact the linear relation between stress and strain , as defined above , can only be true for infinitesimal strains . |
| 12 | This can only be true for those speakers who are more or less monostylistic and " basilectal " : in other words , those whose repertoire is confined to a variety of Creole which is almost maximally different from Standard English . |
| 13 | As to the dock company , he pointed out that no nuisance was alleged to emanate directly from its premises , that other traffic besides heavy goods vehicles uses Medway and Bridge Roads on port business and that the dock company could only be liable for any nuisance caused by the fourth or fifth defendants if it aided and abetted it . |
| 14 | The Osprey is well made and packs down small and so is good for all-season backpacking . |
| 15 | It could be improved by including all the results of excavations since 1961 , but this has not been possible for various reasons , the most important of which is that it is no longer the intention to study the results of 367 , but to turn to another event recorded by Ammianus which can be illuminated by this old study and by more recent work . |
| 16 | Although plastic pipe has been widely used for wastes and drains , until recently it has not been suitable for hot water . |
| 17 | Of course he 's not been well for some time and he did n't take care of himself . ’ |
| 18 | Too numerous to list here individually , most were of early-1980s , vintage and had not been airworthy for some time . |
| 19 | The council 's permission to the joint purchase was required because the woman had not been resident for six months . |
| 20 | The newcomers , of course , have not been responsible for this loss of rural autonomy — indeed , they have been equally affected by the growing remoteness of decision-making . |
| 21 | Interest rates had already been low for twenty years when the turnpike mania began in 1750 and remained low after it ended in 1772 . |
| 22 | The Consorzio Venezia Nuova has already been active for some time in redesigning the network of channels in the lagoon , consolidating the barene ( patches of mud flat just above the surface of the water ) and other similar measures . |
| 23 | According to the World Health Organization it may soon be possible for these disorders to be controlled or even eliminated — but since there is no cure , this can only mean by early detection in the fetus and abortion . |
| 24 | They 'll just be glad for some comfort . |
| 25 | Charitable donations under a deed of covenant will generally be deductible for excess liability purposes ( s683(3) ) . |
| 26 | Again , it will not normally be acceptable for two pit brokers to agree a price at which they will trade with each other before going into the pit . |
| 27 | Thus , in Hanson v. Church Commissioners it was held that where the matter was one in which there was a wider public interest it may not be possible for one party to withdraw without the assent of the other once the proceedings were begun . |
| 28 | And I like to think in fifty or a hundred years ' time it will not be possible for any orchestra to play sloppily and claim that it is not possible to do better . |
| 29 | Since it may not be possible for both sets of belief to be realised in action , if the courses of action are incompatible , it may be rational for one person to give up his/her autonomy . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , the Museum and the Reading Room of the British Library Reference Division share a common entrance , so any simple count of people walking through either of the two entrances to the building would certainly give a correct number of people entering the Museum , but it would not be correct for genuine visitors to the Museum . |