Example sentences of "[be] [adj] room for " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will find that a large proportion of them need a good ten inches between shelves , not forgetting that there must be ample room for them to be gently eased out and not hooked by the headband . |
| 2 | The Highlander Lieutenant asked that one of the unlit chandeliers be raised from floor level so he could make certain there would be adequate room for his dancers ' crossed swords . |
| 3 | In this real world of politics and journalism , there can be little room for the devolution of newspaper power to journalists . |
| 4 | There can be little room for doubt as to the status of wealthy citizens , but the lower limit is more problematical . |
| 5 | In the general morass of Trinidadian political life there seemed to be little room for genuine political parties , such as the West Indian National Party , ( 1942 ) and the Caribbean Socialist Party , ( 1947 ) . |
| 6 | This world view forgets that people must live now , and , even if capitalism is inevitably to break down , there will be considerable room for manoeuvre over how this happens and what will replace it … . |
| 7 | A novel or a film which merely alludes to a crime committed by the author or subject could fall within the scope of ‘ Son-of-Sam ’ legislation and there will be considerable room for debate as to whether ‘ a piece of art , a musical composition , or a poem is an expression of the criminal 's thoughts or feelings about his crime . ’ |
| 8 | If you subsequently assign a longer string to the variable there will be insufficient room for it and the string will have to occupy a different area in memory . |
| 9 | Three 5.25-inch drive bays are free , so there 's ample room for peripheral expansion . |
| 10 | It carries such a weight of ideology , however , that there is great room for misunderstanding . |
| 11 | Therefore there is considerable room for choice in the form of work organisation to be adopted , and the one that suits management 's often unexamined assumptions about the best way does not have to be chosen . |
| 12 | The manner and extent to which safety recommendations are followed up is an area where there is considerable room for improvement on the part of the many regulating authorities who have to some extent misjudged the degree of public anxiety on this subject . |
| 13 | There are no unambiguous rules about how this should be done , and there is considerable room for manoeuvre on both sides . |
| 14 | From this play , taken in conjunction with earlier comedies , an interpretation of Athenian culture can be extracted which is , in essence , coherent and credible — even though there is considerable room for argument about how seriously the comic author might have liked the interpretation to be taken . |
| 15 | Yet while it seems conceivable that a group of critics , given an adequate degree of historical or philological knowledge , might agree as to which associations are possible in the case of a given word , there is considerable room for disagreement , since every word possesses a very wide range of associations , as to which of these are relevant for the purposes of interpretation . |
| 16 | But if one takes only one kilometre , again there is insufficient room for a settlement which would not be close up against the greenbelt boundary proposed by the County Council , and close up against the A sixty four . |
| 17 | A snap decision to turn has been the cause of many serious stalling and spinning accidents , often when , in fact , there was ample room for a landing ahead . |
| 18 | In the new cities , where there was scant room for the living , there was even less room for the dead . |
| 19 | There was significant room for improvement . |