Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely she 'd only been asleep for five minutes at the very most ? |
| 2 | I 've only been operational for four months and yet already people are beginning to seek me out . |
| 3 | They had all been dead for several days . |
| 4 | The Sun 's fuel is hydrogen nuclei — protons — which alone are useless for commercial fusion . |
| 5 | Cardboards and paper can obviously be useful for prolific artists or those travelling light ! |
| 6 | Cardboards and paper can obviously be useful for prolific artists or those travelling light ! |
| 7 | We may not personally be responsible for many of the barriers in society that disabled people we work with have to face . |
| 8 | The funding will only be visible for three years , as it gradually merges into the personal social services element of the revenue support grant . |
| 9 | Now , we 've got quite a long list , colleagues , of , er , members of the European Parliament and members of Parliament who will be with us during the course of the week for for short stays er Euro European MPs first , er Linden , Cheshire West secretary of the European P L P Steven , Durham , deputy leader of the European P L P Hugh , Strathclyde West Barry , Yorkshire West and from the G M B parliamentary group , er , these MPs may only be present for short periods Nicholas , Newcastle-upon-Tyne East Doug , Newcastle-upon-Tyne North Gerald , George , Hamilton Clive Hammersmith and Giles who 's drawn the short straw , who 's going to give us an address this morning . |
| 10 | In particular , the evaluation of model derivatives and the use of more than one model simultaneously would only be possible for large systems within such a framework . |
| 11 | The miller 's day was dictated by the movements of the tides because his source of power would only be available for short periods of two or three hours at a time . |
| 12 | Classical elasticity as developed in the nineteenth century assumed that the deformations caused on application of load were small ; in fact the linear relation between stress and strain , as defined above , can only be true for infinitesimal strains . |
| 13 | This can only be true for those speakers who are more or less monostylistic and " basilectal " : in other words , those whose repertoire is confined to a variety of Creole which is almost maximally different from Standard English . |
| 14 | As to the dock company , he pointed out that no nuisance was alleged to emanate directly from its premises , that other traffic besides heavy goods vehicles uses Medway and Bridge Roads on port business and that the dock company could only be liable for any nuisance caused by the fourth or fifth defendants if it aided and abetted it . |
| 15 | The way Carole watched helplessly while the bricks were hurled , and then offered unwanted food and drink in a fruitless effort to placate her furious little girl , could only be bad for both of them . |
| 16 | For many years , as a result of the reduction in the flow of the Painswick Stream coupled with the silting up of the mill pond , this had been used on a 50:50 basis with a gas engine , sufficient water only being available for half a day 's working . |
| 17 | The share of local taxes ( which has already been taken into account in is relevant for other existing members of the locality . |
| 18 | The Osprey is well made and packs down small and so is good for all-season backpacking . |
| 19 | It could be improved by including all the results of excavations since 1961 , but this has not been possible for various reasons , the most important of which is that it is no longer the intention to study the results of 367 , but to turn to another event recorded by Ammianus which can be illuminated by this old study and by more recent work . |
| 20 | Although plastic pipe has been widely used for wastes and drains , until recently it has not been suitable for hot water . |
| 21 | With respect , I shall not give way because my hon. Friend has not been present for much of the debate . |
| 22 | Although Valerie had not been present for any of the discussion among governors and teachers on the appointing committee ? her remarks were not all that far removed from what had transpired . |
| 23 | Of course he 's not been well for some time and he did n't take care of himself . ’ |
| 24 | Too numerous to list here individually , most were of early-1980s , vintage and had not been airworthy for some time . |
| 25 | The council 's permission to the joint purchase was required because the woman had not been resident for six months . |
| 26 | Cases of the latter type , where the adjective is used only to aid identification and does not actually apply to the entity of the phrase , closely resemble the great bulk of noun + noun phrases in their structural value , examples such as : ( 11 ) army manoeuvres the piano factory a sea monster an angle bracket However , even among noun + noun phrases , certain specimens occur which are clearly analogous to the former type ; as in : ( 12 ) a doctor journalist ( or doctor-journalist ) Chancellor Kohl a bed-settee These would permit an affirmative answer to our diagnostic test , although normally it is necessary to allow a little leeway in the shape of an added determiner to allow for this requirement of English : ( 13 ) Maurice is a journalist and he is also a doctor 2.3 It would be useful to have names for the two types of adjectival use , and there are fortunately two terms available which fall in the right semantic area and which have not been pre-empted for any other widely accepted technical linguistic purpose . |
| 27 | The newcomers , of course , have not been responsible for this loss of rural autonomy — indeed , they have been equally affected by the growing remoteness of decision-making . |
| 28 | A State Department spokesman said that according to the US-led task force , coalition forces had not been responsible for any of the deaths . |
| 29 | Interest rates had already been low for twenty years when the turnpike mania began in 1750 and remained low after it ended in 1772 . |
| 30 | The Consorzio Venezia Nuova has already been active for some time in redesigning the network of channels in the lagoon , consolidating the barene ( patches of mud flat just above the surface of the water ) and other similar measures . |