Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt intensely sorry for poor Brian , living as he did with anxiety and insecurity , and had never seen the necessity of channelling any of her pity back into her own parched reserves . |
| 2 | ONCE again Liberal Democrat Cun ben Ord has shown by his public utterances that he is wholly unsuitable for public office ( Echo February 25 ) . |
| 3 | Given the evidence that punishment which immediately precedes a forbidden act ( rarely possible for busy parents ) maximizes resistance to temptation and minimizes guilt , you might try not only to sanction misbehaviour promptly but ( where possible ) forestall your child 's action just as it gets under way . |
| 4 | Both effects can be exploited to separate isotopes — for example in enriching uranium by increasing the ratio of uranium 238 compared with uranium 235 , although the first is currently the most used for large-scale enrichment . |
| 5 | This was most marked for large bucket sizes ; IBM fourteen-record bucket files gave average retrieval times increased from 40 ms to 55 ms as a result of 40 per cent of the file being stored in overflow . |
| 6 | Breaks in ‘ sleeping ’ probe coverage , most clear for YAC probes , correspond to the groups of clones probably belonging to other regions of the genome and are usually hit by only one cosmid probe . |
| 7 | The Building Notice is most suited for minor jobs associated with dwellings . |
| 8 | While features which are points of contrast between two dialect systems appear to be the most salient for would-be imitators , they are also potentially the most difficult to copy correctly . |
| 9 | Thorn 's ( 1968 ) classification is in many ways the most interesting for social geographers . |
| 10 | Will he use this opportunity to ask British Steel to consider modernising the Dalzell plate mill in Motherwell rather than building an expensive new plate mill , which would be less profitable for British Steel ? |
| 11 | The advantages of Bt toxins are obvious : not only are they natural proteins that readily degrade in the environment , but they are highly specific for crop-destroying caterpillars ( Lepidoptera ) , flies ( Diptera ) , or beetles and weevils ( Coleoptera ) ; they do not harm vertebrates . |
| 12 | This has led many people to argue that , under the conditions of the global capitalist system , industrialization is only possible for developing countries where bureaucratic authoritarian regimes can organize the production process , and particularly the labour force , to satisfy the demands of the transnational corporations and the world market . |
| 13 | The degree of divisional-HQ interaction was not so extensive for diversified firms . |
| 14 | The Gaussian theory is only adequate for small strains ; at higher values of strain the assumptions made in deriving the entropy break down and the more complex Langevin expression ( 6.16a ) is needed . |
| 15 | Public transport is poor — with buses only adequate for local use — and there is no rail service . |
| 16 | In summary , substituting depreciation accounting for the existing method would make revenue accounts more relevant for cost comparisons but less reliable for financial control . |
| 17 | Although the difference is less marked for multiple record buckets , it is still significant . |
| 18 | The changing demographic composition also has implications for the physical housing stock — trends towards non-family , smaller households suggest that the traditional three-bedroom house is becoming less appropriate for present needs . |
| 19 | Few communities adopted it in toto , but it provided a useful source of material , even if those responsible for it fell into the common trap of producing texts which were not necessarily Appropriate for musical setting . |
| 20 | The earlier sought opportunities for growth and development of liberal adult education became available on a scale hitherto impossible for voluntary organisations , and for the universities through their extra-mural functions . |
| 21 | ‘ Domestic Happiness is the greatest of things sublunary , ’ he had written to Southey earlier in August , ‘ and of things celestial it is perhaps impossible for unassisted Man to believe any thing greater . ’ |
| 22 | It is so easy for Western protestantism to fall into the trap of thinking that the last week of Jesus ' life is all-important . |
| 23 | runs well it 's so easy for other groups to , to try and get you to help them out . |
| 24 | ‘ It has rock so easy for initial routes that every time you reach up there 's a hold . |
| 25 | In this way , we 're starting to get away from the dangers associated with monopolistic suppliers and purchasers , because it 's less easy for large organisations to circumscribe their trading partners by making them use a particular EDI network . |
| 26 | Only payable for planned overtime in accordance with LRC policy . |
| 27 | The company of the saints in heaven was considered an additional potent source of assistance ; individual saints were identified as especially efficacious for particular problems — there was even a saint of hopeless causes ( St Jude ) — and large numbers of men and women undertook long and sometimes hazardous pilgrimages to sites associated with them . |
| 28 | It 's only natural for defeated parties to grab at such explanations , but there are some reasons for believing that the result of the general election in Scotland owed more to Conservative skill at exploiting the mechanics of registration and demography than to any ‘ principled ’ decision-making by voters . |
| 29 | The relationship is less obvious for acute health problems . |
| 30 | It had more egalitarian holdings , less interest by speculators ( because of its remoteness ) and , as the government authority tended to be weak , the settlers were more self-sufficient in setting up schools and cutting tracks and so forth ; moreover , it was less costly for central government . |