Example sentences of "be [adj] [adv] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Needles can be produced by simply pulling Leitz capillary on an electrode puller but such hollow needles can cause damage to tissue if they break because of the ensuing capillary action , Solid needles are preferable both for this reason and also because they have greater mechanical strength .
2 Nevertheless , the rewards of finding satisfactory solutions are high enough for experimental work to be continued .
3 There was a time in the very early universe when it was so hot that the particle energies would have been high enough for these transformations to take place .
4 ‘ Quite sure you 're strong enough for this sort of life ?
5 I mean they 're all basically for different schools anyway , but it just so
6 ‘ We 're safe enough for another night . ’
7 The Vistula is so full of pollutants that its waters are unfit even for industrial use along 80 per cent of its total length .
8 Most diamonds are brown or yellow with little visual appeal and are fit only for industrial use .
9 They had been married now for seven years .
10 While it ( profit ) is a nasty word we are all here for one reason .
11 It seems as though the period of separation has been long enough for genetic differences to appear within populations but not so long that reproductive barriers have developed .
12 Plans are well underway for next year .
13 Swan compiled a series of almanacs published in Cambridge from 1657 , and may have been responsible too for other titles such as those ostensibly by ‘ Swallow ’ and ‘ Dove ’ .
14 then he comes home , that 's what he likes to do potter around the house , well I do n't want to potter around the house when I 've been stuck in for twelve months .
15 My mother has been happy there for fifteen years .
16 Moreover , 55 per cent of the neighbourhood had been resident there for five years or more .
17 Teeth are more easily overlooked in the thick debris of the pellets than are the mandibles and maxillae and so may be under-represented solely for this reason .
18 If it was possible to do that in the past , it should be possible now for British Rail to design relatively cheap crossing facilities .
19 And it must be seen to work well , which requires the system to be transparent enough for public scrutiny to take place .
20 In the higher sea level of the first interglacial , any mud left would be at too great depths to be disturbed by waves and hence for the first time the seas would be clear enough for reef-building corals to flourish .
21 I had a friend , an inspector in the " cop-shop " , and he advised that after breakfast would be early enough for that procedure .
22 As we understand more about a text 's specific historicity , how it emerged from a distinctive social embedment , we might expect it to be unavailable sometimes for current employment .
23 The flood tide , though it had no real terrors for Woodie , caused him to fret impatiently , because Rochester , in his opinion , had beautiful lines below water , and these would not now be visible again for twelve hours .
24 The ‘ dark figure ’ of crime , that is the difference between ‘ real ’ and reported rates of crime , may be substantial even for serious offences in twentieth-century developed nations .
25 Well , that may be good enough for other girls , but not for her .
26 In most cases a 9.6 volt or 12 volt drill will be powerful enough for serious woodworking , such as repeated drilling and screwdriving operations without rapid discharge of the battery .
27 We shall see in Section 5.16.3 that such studies can be important even for stable substances , and can allow spectroscopic identification of species such as free radicals and other reactive fragments that are normally short-lived .
28 In addition , a chemically inactivated virus is unlikely to be safe enough for human use because of concerns that some live viral particles would survive the chemical treatment .
29 Whether these agents will be safe enough for clinical use in man remains unknown .
30 Unfortunately I 'll be stuck there for two years .
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