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 | Surprisingly , it 's normal for some women to squirt out a fluid at the moment of orgasm . |
| 7 | She must have been asleep for some hours when the sound of her opening bedroom door penetrated her dreams and brought her instantly awake . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | That charge has been wrong-headed for some years ; nevertheless , it has been sustained by enough left-wing activity to feed Conservative propaganda . |
| 10 | The annual floods had been low for some years , and conditions in the villages were very bad . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Unfortunately the major forage grass species have complex life-cycles which make them unsuitable for some experiments . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This can make the conventional approach perfectly adequate for some systems development work . |
| 19 | Vanity basins have been popular for some years now , especially in larger bathrooms . |
| 20 | Small print , dense layout , footnotes and detailed diagrams can be very demanding for some pupils with defective vision . |
| 21 | In 1902 , after the Hall had stood empty for some years , Lord Halifax lent it to a small community of Church of England Benedictines under Abbot Aelred Carlyle , the subject of a book Abbot Extraordinary . |
| 22 | This system of learning is very different for some students and it might help at the beginning of the academic year to introduce them to it in a more measured way and look at points of pressure during the year and see if they can be released without lowering standards |
| 23 | The technique , has been existent for some years , and should provide information which may be of use in identifying high levels of expenditure within a particular specialty within a district , and should be of value in assisting local planning . |
| 24 | The result is a more suitable map ( Figure 4.11(b) ) on which it is clear that data are unavailable for some countries . |
| 25 | The third example is a young man who falls into the rare category of those who pose a serious threat to public safety , a threat which in some instances exists for only weeks or months , although occasionally a person may remain potentially dangerous for some years . |
| 26 | Money was allocated for coaches and teacher supervision ( now that there are so many educational cutbacks on outings ) , special allowances for printing and photographic paper were made , as it was impossible for some schools to provide such basics . |
| 27 | If the birthweight is low anyway this could be critical but children born to heavy smokers can continue to be slower than average for some years to come . |
| 28 | A level of 20 per area from an inspection lasting 10 minutes is appropriate for some operations particularly catering . |
| 29 | They require navigation through the class hierarchy ( rather like hierarchical and network DBMS ) and though this may well be appropriate for some applications , it is not appropriate to all . |
| 30 | This may well be appropriate for some patients but falls short of securing treatment for others whose relapses may be abrupt and catastrophic . |