Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] is [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Going up and down tracks is good for them and makes them very relaxed and happy . |
| 2 | It is obvious enough that a neocortex would be useless if all its neurons responded to the same or strongly similar features , so decorrelation is useful for this purpose , but it also confers another great advantage . |
| 3 | Meanwhile Clough is desperate for a good result at Everton today . |
| 4 | Thus protein is necessary for the ovaries and thyroid to produce hormones , for the kidneys to make urine , for muscles to exercise , and so forth . |
| 5 | The task of bringing up children is tough for any parent but for one man it 's particularly difficult . |
| 6 | But if you really want to rub a Mac user up the wrong way , hit them will the argument that now Quark is available for the PC , the only real reason for using a Mac has disappeared . |
| 7 | Books : Blue Guide to Belgium and Luxembourg ( Black/Norton , £11.95 ) , good for historical sights ; Brugge Inside Out available locally for about £4 is useful for more down-to-earth matters . |
| 8 | Certainly there are areas of common interest e.g. profit-making is important for the survival and growth of an Organisation . |
| 9 | Yet even today America is responsible for one quarter of world oil consumption and almost half the non-Communist world 's petrol consumption . |
| 10 | As these case studies show , even when the willingness to change is there , whether the initial impetus comes from within or without , actually bringing about change is hard for the individual . |
| 11 | Here naturalism seems to slip back in , at least in the attempt to explain how knowledge is possible for us . |
| 12 | The clauses of the Pactus pro tenore pacis are divided between the two monarchs ; if the prologue to the Pactus is counted as a separate clause , then Childebert is responsible for six and Chlothar ten . |
| 13 | IN THESE days when money is scarce for most rugby clubs Morley earned themselves £1,500 on the toss of a coin over the weekend . |
| 14 | For example , a larger combination microwave which may cost over £3500 is ideal for turning over consistently large batches . |
| 15 | Yet empathy is essential for historical understanding . |
| 16 | There may be time lags and a degree of sub-optimality in the correspondence between relations of production and legal relations , but otherwise law is functional for the economic base . |
| 17 | This system will be used in deciding on future allocations of the pool and the DES has already indicated that it would expect NAB to give advice about appropriate courses and rationalization , particularly concerning those which are expensive , those which are so specialist in nature that control of student numbers is required , and those where both university and public sector provision might be unnecessary or where rationalization is desirable for other reasons . |
| 18 | Some 12 per cent of the world 's cultivated land is irrigated , of which more than half is affected to some extent by these problems which inevitably lead to a reduction in crop productivity , the very factor that such schemes were established to increase salinisation and waterlogging are particularly significant in arid and semiarid regions where irrigation is necessary for agriculture , and while they are important in developed nations , they are fast becoming major environmental problems in many developing nations . |
| 19 | People 's natural prejudices may be aroused by this prospect alone , sufficiently for the idea to be rejected , but it must be made clear why EMU is undesirable for Britain and for Europe . |
| 20 | As the island subsided the reef would grow upwards and outwards at the edges , the only places where growth is active for reasons already stated , while the dead part of the reef between the island and the front of the reef would be flooded . |
| 21 | Most have a fixed maturity date and are redeemable at par , i.e. £100 is payable for each £100 nominal value of stock . |