Example sentences of "be [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most advances are supposed to be short-term but in practice many are outstanding for long periods . |
| 2 | means they are outstanding for an average of 67 days . |
| 3 | Suppose : That through good collecting your average accounts receivable are reduced to £ 150,000 , which means they are outstanding for an average of 45 days . |
| 4 | The computer printed report should be annotated to indicate those problems which are outstanding for more than five days or which led to a Change Request . |
| 5 | 9.1.1 The rents ( or any of them or any part of them ) under this Lease are outstanding for [ 14 days ] after becoming due whether formally demanded or not |
| 6 | To Paul Dubrulle , a thirty-four-year-old French Jesuit serving as an infantry sergeant at Verdun , whose journals are outstanding for their un-embellished realism , it seemed as follows : |
| 7 | Surface pumps are preferable for some water gardens , especially where a relatively high ‘ head ’ of water is necessary , this ‘ head ’ being the vertical distance between water level and the highest point of discharge . |
| 8 | We are sorry for any misunderstanding or embarrassment this caused to James Capel and to the banks . |
| 9 | So , said Miss Lawley helpfully , will you now say you are sorry for introducing it ? |
| 10 | But never forget that He will forgive those who are sorry for any evil they have done . |
| 11 | We are sorry for his death but how are we responsible ? ’ |
| 12 | It must have been humiliating for her to accept that after helping him to create an empire within show business , he should choose to spend his time with a younger woman . |
| 13 | It would have been humiliating for her to say to her mother , ‘ I had nothing to do with it ; it was the bright boy who made the suggestion to the grand dame . ’ |
| 14 | Since the end of Athens ' archaic war with Eleusis it would have been absurd for any deme of Attica to think of rivalling Athens . |
| 15 | Natural populations of white clover are polymorphic for incompatibility alleles and for the ability to form nitrogen fixing symbioses with strains of Rhizobium but these have not been looked at at Henfaes . |
| 16 | Soundposts are an important feature of bowed instruments but are unsuitable for plucked instruments and will deaden the sound of a dulcimer . |
| 17 | And for those who say that some pubs are unsuitable for children because they might have some evil influence , then is n't it about time those pubs were cleaned up ? |
| 18 | Laing rejects the view held by some people that managers from major corporations are unsuitable for giving advice to small firms because they live in two different worlds . |
| 19 | Domestic animals have over-grazed the area creating total desert conditions which are unsuitable for oryx . |
| 20 | Although at first sight , the great abundance of bogs and freshwater lochs on the Outer Hebrides suggests an abundance of suitable sites for palaeoecological studies , on closer examination several are unsuitable for detailed investigation . |
| 21 | These squatter settlements have sprung up in great abundance , generally in undesirable and inaccessible areas , which are unsuitable for standard building . |
| 22 | Prone to blockage they are unsuitable for general use . |
| 23 | Very clearly we are not in the business of directing people into modes of prayer that are unsuitable for them . |
| 24 | Pamphlets are unsuitable for open shelf stock . |
| 25 | Publishers ' casings are unsuitable for heavy library use , and many public librarians take up various options for strengthened editions offered by the library suppliers . |
| 26 | Only after it is decided that company collection agencies are unsuitable for the job should outside agencies be contracted to fill in the gaps . |
| 27 | The development of such ‘ industries ’ has also been facilitated by improved communications and transport as well as the need to generate income in areas that have been adversely affected by the economic recession of the early 1980s or which are unsuitable for other kinds of economic activity such as agriculture . |
| 28 | The sycamore ( Acer pseudoplatanus ) is widespread , particularly so on the Downs near the coast where conditions are unsuitable for most other tree species , and it is much favoured by passage migrants . |
| 29 | By the same token they are unsuitable for small rooms , and would be so even if their considerable bulk was n't so dominating in such surroundings . |
| 30 | This will avoid wasting everybody 's time if the job , the candidate or the company are unsuitable for each other . |