Example sentences of "[adj] for [adj] service " in BNC.
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| 1 | British subjects who were too old or otherwise unsuitable for active service found their way to the Pioneer Corps . |
| 2 | If you 're fit enough for groping , you 're OK for active service . ’ |
| 3 | He was forty-seven , too old for military service yet young enough to feel that something more was required of him than the life he had hitherto led . |
| 4 | List the names of all men twenty years old or older who are fit for military service ’ ( 1:1–3 ) . |
| 5 | The purpose of the census is to list all men over 20 fit for military service . |
| 6 | The Colonel pronounced the route fit for public service on 13 February . |
| 7 | I tried to make my excuse sound plausible , but I fear I did hurt him ; he had been pronounced unfit for military service and he was lonely and smarting at his exclusion from the experience of his peers . |
| 8 | When told that his two years at sea did not count , he resignedly attended his medical only to discover that his hearing was impaired and he was declared unfit for military service . |
| 9 | Being unfit for military service , in 1917 he accepted appointment as lecturer in history and English literature for three years at St Paul 's College , Calcutta , where the poverty of the people made a deep impression on him . |
| 10 | Although unfit for military service , he joined the Artists ' Rifles Officers ' Training Corps and began an active social career . |
| 11 | A variant theme in recent historiography has been that by the mid-ninth century , nobles had been too much influenced by the church 's stress on peace , and had thus become unfit for military service . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He had broken his leg some time before and so had been unfit for active service till then . |
| 14 | In 1914 Powell was declared unfit for active service , but joined the Admiralty in 1916 . |
| 15 | Other new appointees were Enoch Ruhigira to the new post of Minister in the Presidency responsible for Public Service ; Hildesonse Hijaniro to Transport and Communications ; François Xavier Nsengumuremyi as Health Minister ; and Constantin Cubahiro as Higher Education and Scientific Research Minister , taking over from Charles Nyandwi , who became Civil Service and Professional Training Minister . |
| 16 | In addition to the International Network , MAS has designated people responsible for initial service delivery in most of the European countries . |
| 17 | Three of the first four development launches were successful , and Ariane was declared qualified for operational service . |
| 18 | Although established network operators are now primarily using optical fibre for high capacity communications links , there is little evidence that the overall amount of spectrum available for fixed service use , in terms either of point to point use or outside broadcasts and electronic news gathering applications , should be reduced . |
| 19 | Top contender Henry Akinwande will not be available for domestic service until the summer , being booked for a Commonwealth title fight against New Zealand 's Jimmy Thunder in March and a European re-match with Germany 's Axel Schulz in Berlin on 1 May , which will net him a £75,000 purse . |
| 20 | As each lift was modified , work was commenced on the next lift , so that two lifts were available for full service to the hotel at any time . |
| 21 | During the First World War , women were employed for the first time , resulting from Manager Furness ' refusal to employ any able-bodied man eligible for military service . |
| 22 | Crawford , now 30 , was eligible for military service , but as volunteers were eager to join up during 1914–16 there had been no need to impose conscription in New Zealand . |
| 23 | Such consultation , though a problematic and difficult area , is vital for proper service planning and is considered in greater detail in Chapter 8 . |
| 24 | On moving to Switzerland , he had forfeited his German citizenship and was therefore ineligible for active service , but an exception was made for him , and as a German patriot he was allowed to volunteer in the capacity of medical orderly . |
| 25 | Even in political systems where political neutrality is not regarded as necessary for public service , or is even thought undesirable , officials are subject to the formal authority of politically recruited executives , indicating that the responsiveness of bureaucracies to the political direction of other institutions is a universal problem . |
| 26 | THE NEXT morning Erika helped Omi dress in black , the only colour she considered suitable for Divine Service . |
| 27 | However , he considered that only locomotives with a single pair of driving wheels were really suitable for express-train service and the first of these were built in 1868 , followed two years later by the larger 4–2–2 type with outside cylinders and driving wheels eight feet in diameter , whose simple and elegant outline created great interest . |
| 28 | In addition to the two partners , the project is to draw on an earlier agreement between Northern Telecom and Cincinnati Bell Information Systems Inc for developing Service Management Systems . |
| 29 | When on 5 September the Lords Lieutenant of the four most northerly counties were ordered to make their respective militias ready for immediate service , it emerged that neither Northumberland nor Durham had been reimbursed by central government for the money they had previously spent in keeping the force mustered , while the authorities in Cumberland admitted candidly : ‘ T is so long since the militia was raised that we are apprehensive the arms are either lost or in bad order . ’ |
| 30 | CELLULAR ONE READY FOR COMMERCIAL SERVICE |