Example sentences of "[adj] for some [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We marvelled again at the scenery of West Spitsbergen , its sharply tipped mountains of dark rock , the glacier-filled valleys between and the tiny strips of life-giving vegetation which made it possible for some birds and animals to exist . |
| 2 | It should therefore be possible for some colleges , particularly those whose staff have played a substantial role in the development , to use the material produced and offer new courses based on HN Units in session 1989–90 . |
| 3 | I am often asked how , with Biros vanishing as often as they do , is it possible for some writers to get so much down on paper in a single lifetime ? |
| 4 | In general we value goods with a price , and devalue the ‘ free lunch ’ , but it is possible for some institutions and professional and personal relationships to be viewed in different terms . |
| 5 | The proviso whereby it was possible for some individuals to enjoy an enhanced accrual scale to qualify for full pension benefits after 10 years of service was altered in the 1987 Budget — with a new period of 20 years ' service being required . |
| 6 | Except on North America voyages , and despite falling unemployment and rising real wages in the country as a whole , seamen 's wages rose little for some years . |
| 7 | Surprisingly , it 's normal for some women to squirt out a fluid at the moment of orgasm . |
| 8 | She must have been asleep for some hours when the sound of her opening bedroom door penetrated her dreams and brought her instantly awake . |
| 9 | She had drifted off , and had been fast asleep for some hours when the sound of someone 's keeping their finger pressed on her doorbell roused her from a deep sleep . |
| 10 | That charge has been wrong-headed for some years ; nevertheless , it has been sustained by enough left-wing activity to feed Conservative propaganda . |
| 11 | The annual floods had been low for some years , and conditions in the villages were very bad . |
| 12 | The discrepancy between job-specification and status became acute for some coordinators , and remained a problem in some schools , not just for coordinators but also for many other staff with significant cross-school managerial responsibilities . |
| 13 | This life style may be unsuitable for some women and boredom can lead to a couple 's failure to complete an assignment , even to breakdown of their marriage . |
| 14 | Unfortunately the major forage grass species have complex life-cycles which make them unsuitable for some experiments . |
| 15 | On the other hand , this simplicity has its price in that the model proves unsuitable for some applications ( hence , the drive towards semantic data models and object-oriented data models ) . |
| 16 | It may indeed be that for some teachers there really is no possibility of working with real integrity , and consequently no possibility of deriving any deep satisfaction from what they do . |
| 17 | He also told me that for some years , two unknown people , evidently strategically placed in big City offices , have been collecting for us all the first-day covers received there . |
| 18 | At this point it is sufficient to mention that it is accepted that there were differences between the real and reported rates , but that for some crimes over certain periods of time the difference was fairly constant . |
| 19 | It would be foolish to make a strong claim about the salience of the JC STRUT vowel for LE speakers on the strength of limited data like this , but it does appear that for some speakers , this point of difference between LE and JC falls below a " salience threshold " which leads it to be ignored for adaptation purposes , while for other speakers it is salient enough to be adapted , but not consistently . |
| 20 | After that for some months I was unemployed . |
| 21 | Diethyl ether — just plain ether to most of us — needs to be scrupulously dry for some experiments , and the normal method of drying is to use sodium wire in the bottle . |
| 22 | The CMS system will be replaced by a UNIX one in a year 's time ; while this system may be easier for some users to learn , others will have to adapt to yet another unfamiliar system . |
| 23 | It has been pointed out that there are biases in the system that make it much easier for some interests to be heard than others , and much easier for modifications to the status quo to be vetoed than to be supported . |
| 24 | While there are many circumstances in which that is true , it seems important to acknowledge that the political system contains biases that make it much easier for some groups to secure influence than others . |
| 25 | The headstock has the single butterfly-type string guide , to maintain a healthy break angle across the nut , which itself is nicely cut , if a mite too high for some tastes . |
| 26 | Interest rates will have to remain painfully high for some months , and departmental spending will be made to stay within the current planning totals : even the big-spending ministers recognise they are involved in bidding against each other , rather than against the Treasury . |
| 27 | This can make the conventional approach perfectly adequate for some systems development work . |
| 28 | Vanity basins have been popular for some years now , especially in larger bathrooms . |
| 29 | Small print , dense layout , footnotes and detailed diagrams can be very demanding for some pupils with defective vision . |
| 30 | They show the same tendency that was observed in Study 2 for some junctions to have a negative correlation and others to show a positive correlation . |