Example sentences of "[adj] for [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , we can add the joint income of husband and wife to obtain a total for that unit , whatever we choose to call it , whereas we can not sensibly add their separate statuses to achieve a joint status for both of them unless we know a great deal more about how status is a distributive phenomenon and what its properties are . |
| 2 | While smaller churches may be able to count every week , this may prove impractical for large churches , especially with more than one exit , without some fairly elaborate means of arriving at a total for each service . |
| 3 | The more variable strata will therefore be more intensively sampled , leading to estimates of the population mean or total for this variable that are ‘ optimal ’ in the sense of having smallest possible variance . |
| 4 | The great man himself is now 95 and too frail for any involvement . |
| 5 | ‘ A number of invitations have been outstanding for some time , and people just chose to take them up at this stage , ’ one said . |
| 6 | Chameleon , for example , has been available in English , German , Danish , Portuguese and Spanish for some time , and has recently added Czech and Polish language versions . |
| 7 | Then again , another election was not due for some time , the FDP remained loyal to the coalition and Brandt 's international reputation stood high . |
| 8 | ‘ I lose count , ’ went on Robert , ‘ but I 've got the feeling we 're due for another bout of banging the forehead on the carpet . ’ |
| 9 | Leicestershire .... 26 North Midlands .... 28 WITH the County Championship due for another facelift , this winter 's finishing order will have a new significance and judging by last night 's lively encounter at Welford Road , North Midlands are well up with the situation . |
| 10 | ‘ Her Ladyship 's started in labour , though she 's not due for another couple of weeks and there 's no time to get the doctor and nurse from Malton , by the look of things . ’ |
| 11 | Mueller then turned to the American Managing Director in charge of the British Components ' Division , who was due for another assignment after nearly two years in the UK . |
| 12 | We are due for another service and it 's this month , the yearly service . |
| 13 | The students were not due for another month , though the streets and cloisters were crowded with tourists , who were outnumbered only by their cameras . |
| 14 | As we were not due for another lesson till the next day I was n't carrying them with me . |
| 15 | Yeah we 're about due for another flood . |
| 16 | Colchester had their second keeper Nathan Munsen sent-off for this challenge on Derek Hall … |
| 17 | You were n't right for each other ! |
| 18 | She knew perfectly well that she and Ludo were right for each other . |
| 19 | At the end of the training period , you can decide between you whether or not you 're right for each other . |
| 20 | They were n't right for each other and maybe a marriage would last a shorter time than a more informal , less intense liaison ; brief and bitter , both of them on proximity fuses with things coming rapidly to a crunch , rather than something more drawn out , where they might spend long periods apart and so forget how much they hated being together , and enjoy the fleeting , passionate moments of reunion … |
| 21 | All her previous doubts as to whether they were right for each other , whether she cared for him enough , had been answered by her reaction to Michele Lorenzo . |
| 22 | I 'm ten years older now , and in retrospect I see that if Francesca had lived we would n't have been right for each other . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ When they 're right for each other a Gemini and a Sagittarian can have a wonderful , magical , lasting relationship . |
| 24 | No political decision … can be right for all time . |
| 25 | It can not be right for such information to be available , by a sidewind , for the court but the parties be prevented from presenting their arguments on such material . |
| 26 | ‘ Working with Oaky and Osborne was right for that time , but now it 's time to move on , do something a bit different , ’ shrugs Shaun . |
| 27 | That 's not the question , the question is is it right for this person to be found guilty , is it right for this person to be found innocent ? |
| 28 | That 's not the question , the question is is it right for this person to be found guilty , is it right for this person to be found innocent ? |
| 29 | ‘ The Government does not believe that it would be right for this case to be treated as a precedent . ’ |
| 30 | Many a reader of The Possessed will have smiled at Von Lemke 's paper cut-outs — the conductor waving his baton , the bustling railway porter , the hell-fire gesticulating preacher — and at the same time he will have wondered why the microcosmic animated toys feel so supremely right for this novel . |