Example sentences of "be [adj] room [prep] " 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 | As we have seen , there were a variety of different types of Jacobitism , whilst the serious source problems involved in studying this subject will always limit our understanding and inevitably mean that there will continue to be much room for interpretative disagreements . |
| 4 | There may not be much room in the house you are sharing with your parents for a baby , perhaps , or he may be worried about money if you intend giving up work . |
| 5 | In this real world of politics and journalism , there can be little room for the devolution of newspaper power to journalists . |
| 6 | There can be little room for doubt as to the status of wealthy citizens , but the lower limit is more problematical . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | There would be less room for challenging productions . |
| 9 | 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 … . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | The long term trend is that it 's actually going to be more room at the top of the market I think . |
| 12 | There may be more room for choice in the new system and users may be in a stronger position to influence the planning of those choices , but the range of services is unlikely to widen . |
| 13 | There may also be more room for professional bodies to discipline those whose conduct has not come up to expected standards but where proving dishonesty in a court would be hard . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The best shape of bag is tapered or mummy-shaped , and there should be enough room for your body to feel comfortable inside . |
| 16 | And erm er they will s think about whether they 've got enough , be enough room for the number of people . |
| 17 | Surely there wo n't be enough room in Clandeboye for all Bangor 's new found fans and the regular travelling support of these clubs . |
| 18 | Many of the teachers who fall into this category are those who have given up hoping that there will be any room for their beliefs in debate or in classroom practice . |
| 19 | There would n't be any room for us to be us . ’ |
| 20 | I do n't think there 'll be any room on the table . |
| 21 | Our own H. D. Battery was replaced with a small torque start , there being insufficient room under the bonnet . |
| 22 | That evening , in the hall , Mariot entertained them with songs , accompanied by the harp , to their enjoyment ; although Ramsay qualified his rapture by some regret that , there being insufficient room in their ingle-neuk for playing the harp , she had to perform outside it , and he was deprived of the nearness which he found so much to his taste . |
| 23 | Despite the Government 's recently proclaimed intention of regenerating the inner cities , there is little room for optimism . |
| 24 | In fact , the advice was almost certainly correct and , in any case , there is little room for doubt that if Elizabeth 's inheritance was revolutionary , it enjoyed immediate acquiescence and has manifestly been effective . |
| 25 | There is little room for poetry — a product of the despised Fancy — in all this ; yet Wordsworth was in the Locke tradition when he rejected the ‘ gaudy and inane phraseology ’ of the Fancy and devoted a long poem to the description of how Nature ( in Locke 's sense of the whole external world rather than simply mountains and lakes ) formed his mental character . |
| 26 | There is little room for accommodation . |
| 27 | But there is little room for a comprehensive view , though it gives the generalists a basis for comparisons which may not be at first apparent . |
| 28 | As Kessler et al ( 1985 ) point out , school curricula often exaggerate the clear-cut distinction between right and wrong , relevant and irrelevant ; there is little room for ambiguity , multiple layering of truths or open-ended explorations . |
| 29 | In traditional societies , on the other hand , there is little room for individual decision making in these matters ; the proper ways are prescribed by cultural norms , customs and relevant behavioural patterns that are sanctioned by tradition . |
| 30 | A bacterium has a smaller information capacity than a human cell , by a factor of about 1,000 , and it probably uses nearly all of it : there is little room for parasites . |