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

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1 However robbery , rape and assault are predominantly intra-racial for white offenders in America , but significantly inter-racial for black offenders .
2 The vouchers for use in parking bays are widely available for sale at newsagents , post offices , shops , garages , hotels and the Tourist Information Centre .
3 ‘ And I really am most grateful for your errand . ’
4 I am most grateful for your assistance , Mr. Speaker .
5 In the last day or two , I have had some very positive comments about it and am most grateful for the amount of work done by all concerned .
6 He has not been properly fit for months .
7 If they are rather worse for wear you could always just paint and perhaps stencil them .
8 The fry are rather small for a mouthbrooder , but can take newly hatched brine shrimp .
9 Some people regard coach holidays as like being carted around like sheep in a truck , but they are rather good for people travelling alone .
10 Families , being private places , are rather difficult for the self-styled observer to cope with , but seem quite manageable for the more discreet artistic observer who , of course , only writes ‘ fiction ’ .
11 The human epiphanies are rather easier for us to understand .
12 In doing so we have argued that the processes involved in word recognition are rather different for spoken and printed words .
13 Enzyme immunoassays are commercially available for detecting antibody to hepatitis C virus .
14 Those of us who desperately want Czechoslovakia , Poland and Hungary to be admitted to the European Community during this decade , with the transition over by the year 2000 before they are economically ready for it , have to accept that majority voting will be needed if the single market is to be operational in former command communist economies .
15 More than 1 million ha are currently classified as severely saline and are mostly unsuitable for crop production because of either highly saline water in the root zone or the presence of salt crusts on the soil .
16 By Manchester Monday I 'm sitting in Dry surprised to discover that that was only their second gig , and there are only five of them — Tony , Phil and Richard , who are mostly responsible for the music , guitarist Paul , and vocalist Theresa — when live it sounds like at least 20 keyboards going down at once .
17 It must indeed have been most galling for him to be so addressed by one such as I. ’
18 Erin talks about the joy the mindless child brings her — well , so it may , but her love for it has been most destructive for others .
19 Out of these , push factors 2 and 5 and pull factors 1 , 2 and 3 have been most important for depopulation in the western world , and pull factors 4 and 6. have been most important for people moving from urban to rural areas .
20 Out of these , push factors 2 and 5 and pull factors 1 , 2 and 3 have been most important for depopulation in the western world , and pull factors 4 and 6. have been most important for people moving from urban to rural areas .
21 ‘ But , inasmuch as before the search began the defendant told the plaintiff 's clerk that the charge would be the same whether he made extracts or had certified copies , and under that pressure the extracts were obtained , and it would have been most dishonourable for the party , after having got the extracts , to refuse to pay , the money so obtained may be recovered back .
22 Single sinks are rarely suitable for cleaning operations .
23 Recent work in the philosophy and sociology of science has emphasized that experimental results are rarely adequate for making a definitive choice between competing theories .
24 The first appearance at away matches of massive groups of skinheads , all uniformly dressed and intent on smashing their opponents into the ground , must have been rather unnerving for the managers of those clubs who were hoping to turn football watching into a family outing .
25 It must have been rather unnerving for him to see his room thus turned upside down .
26 The food industry has been rather quiet for a couple of years but we have recently finished a Jaffa cake plant for McVities/United Biscuits in Manchester and a sugar refining job for Tate & Lyle .
27 Life must have been rather harder for the one Dissenter in Walberton .
28 This , once again , illustrates how data are intimately responsive for their sense and their meaning to the theoretical context in which they are placed .
29 Our adult education service does not have staff who are wholly responsible for special needs and is dependent upon generic full-timers and a few specialist part-timers .
30 What about the situation in which , on the one hand , many households have no contact with wage labour and are wholly dependent for reproduction on state benefits and , on the other , wage labour has penetrated far further into other households because of the importance of female employment ?
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