Example sentences of "be suitable for [verb] " in BNC.

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1 These may be suitable for converting into one or more cottages .
2 Thus lectures might be suitable for providing a general introduction to a course on information retrieval .
3 Initially middleclass dress , it was adopted by the nobility and the coat was cut to be suitable for riding .
4 Of course , not all jobs would be suitable for teleworking .
5 Work that has been done on distributed associative memory models suggests that these may be suitable for modelling natural language parsing .
6 We shall welcome suggestions from private companies on services which might be suitable for contracting out , and on ways of improving contracting out procedures .
7 Walling may have one or two faces , so a one-face finish may not be suitable for using as the edge of a tread instead of a paving slab , but would be for use underneath the slab .
8 There are very few varieties of olives that would be suitable for eating straight from the trees as the fruits , especially the unripened green olives , are usually very bitter .
9 Some of the new modules may be suitable for introducing an element of science into other programmes and may be used to broaden the science education of students .
10 First , the flowers themselves should be suitable for pressing — there is no point in offering to press someone 's wedding flowers when their bouquet consists of , say , chrysanthemums , pale carnations , large daisies or gerberas , since none of these flowers press successfully at all .
11 While there , he was able to forget the ritual of Monday morning when , in the darkness of winter or the bright light of summer 's early dawns , Celtic Crescent and the streets of Jewtown would be clamorous with the noise of horses being led from nearby stables and harnessed to carts , of men shouting instructions and calling to each other in Yiddish and English as they struggled under the weight of trunks and knapsacks stuffed to overflowing with clothes , fancy goods , kitchen articles , holy pictures , enlargements of family photographs — anything that might be suitable for selling from door to door on a weekly-payment basis .
12 Because of this it would not be suitable for housing because of the danger to the population and the expense necessary to clean it up .
13 They were thought to be suitable for working on any part of the system .
14 For example , UNCLASSIFIED and RESTRICTED may be defined by some organisations to be suitable for microfiching .
15 Prices are generally too high for any quality furniture that might be suitable for reworking .
16 Major battery manufacturers immediately expressed concern , arguing that only specially-designed nickel-cadmium batteries were suitable for recharging , and that ordinary alkaline or zinc chloride batteries might explode if subjected to it .
17 If any other knife identified by its construction as being suitable for banning comes on the market or enters the country in some way , of course we will readily and rapidly consider adding it to the controlled list .
18 Brightly coloured , non-smudge crayons are suitable for drawing and letter outlines , while if pencils are used , those with thick , dark lead should be chosen .
19 As a result those areas , notably the paramos plains and intermontane valleys , which are suitable for herding and crop-growing are experiencing environmental problems due not simply to over-exploitation , but to poor management such as the lack of rotational grazing and the replacement of traditional crops with cash crops .
20 Those with a mushroom-style head are intended to cast the beam downwards on to the flower beds below , others with a pencilshaped lamp are suitable for using along the edge of a path or for illuminating an area of border .
21 For example , its Radar charts are suitable for displaying measurements involving angles — such as the response of an aerial — and it includes a wider range of fit types for plotting points or fitting trend lines than most spreadsheets and has options such as moving averages .
22 Disabled Visitors : many of the properties in this leaflet are accessible to visitors in wheelchairs , and are suitable for escorted visually handicapped visitors .
23 They are ground to a slight curve to prevent corners from scratching work surfaces , and are suitable for removing paint from wood , metal , plaster , filler and glass-fibre-reinforced plastic .
24 Another bonus is that , depending on variety , they are suitable for growing in various depths of water .
25 Not all projects are suitable for carrying out in-house .
26 Unfortunately not all of these varieties are suitable for keeping in a pond .
27 THE HNU-Hanby environmental test kits are suitable for measuring low levels of petroleum hydro-carbons in water and soil .
28 A wide range of electrical recording techniques are currently available , although not all are suitable for studying behavioural processes .
29 They are suitable for cutting green or live wood .
30 Knowledge is required in that the person supplying knows , or it is obvious to a reasonable man , that those means are suitable for putting the invention into effect and that person so intends .
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