Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're eradicating tumours which might otherwise have to go untreated because they are inaccesible to the surgeon or unsuitable for other types of therapy . |
| 2 | They 're eradicating tumours which might otherwise have to go untreated because they are inaccesible to the surgeon or unsuitable for other types of therapy . |
| 3 | The Commission has been saddened to hear of cases where clergy and organists make it difficult or impossible for serious pupils to practise . |
| 4 | ( 4 ) In subsection ( 3 ) above " capital sum " means … ( a ) any sum paid or payable by way of loan or repayment of a loan , and ( b ) any other sum paid or payable otherwise than as income , being a sum which is not paid or payable for full consideration in money or money 's worth . |
| 5 | The main purpose of the poem was to offer advice concerning the regulation of the activities of the year , particular days being of good or evil omen , appropriate or inappropriate for different activities . |
| 6 | This will enable them to point out any of your obvious failings ( you do n't need to be a professional counsellor to realize when someone is mumbling or unprepared for certain questions ) . |
| 7 | This list is not exhaustive and it is always open to a party seeking transfer to satisfy the court that the case is exceptionally grave , important or complex for other reasons . |
| 8 | This does not mean that such support is not available or forthcoming for genuine development . |
| 9 | It was only in the tenth and eleventh centuries that it became normal or common for giant churches to be built . |
| 10 | Although unfit for military service , he joined the Artists ' Rifles Officers ' Training Corps and began an active social career . |
| 11 | So often gardens today are geared towards large drifts of shrubs and herbaceous material , which , although ideal for easy maintenance , display little in the way of infinite details . |
| 12 | When it 's necessary to build deeper than suitable for full block courses , the difference can be made up with bricks , laid normally for a 75mm depth , and on edge to give a 110mm course . |
| 13 | — generally , dictionaries have more senses than necessary for broad applications but too few for specific applications ; |
| 14 | We felt that the use of median survival as an outcome was unsuitable in this meta-analysis since this effect-size approach , although suitable for quantitative outcomes , would not have given reliable pooled results . |
| 15 | The merest mention of the word ‘ sex ’ is more than sufficient for Old Cyclops to start straining against the trousers before jumping to attention as if he has been plugged into a battery-charger . |
| 16 | As Bromwich ( 1976 , p. 87 ) states : ‘ knowledge of a project 's internal rate of return is neither necessary nor sufficient for optimal investment decisions ’ . |
| 17 | Further , even if it may be true that characteristic adjectives are never barred from prenominal occurrence , there are certainly instances where occasion adjectives are ungrammatical in postnominal position , as in : ( 30 ) Eddy will present the cheque to the winner happy we have yet to overcome this obstacle immediate Thus , Bolinger 's distinction between " characteristic " use and " occasion " use is neither necessary nor sufficient for postnominal occurrence , even if it overlaps to an interesting extent with the difference in position of the adjective . |
| 18 | The scheme is less helpful for the person who is handicapped from youth and has no experience of work , and it is not always suitable for those who are unused to and ill-suited for industrial work , for example , those from clerical work or service trades . |
| 19 | Seeking high and low for new rewards and new ways forward . |
| 20 | Group agreed that laser printers were uneconomical and unnecessary for normal correspondence , and that their use should be restricted to areas where presentation quality is needed , for preparation of near-camera-ready copy and for documents distributed to outside bodies , such as commissioned Reports , etc . |
| 21 | Group agreed that laser printers were uneconomical and unnecessary for normal correspondence , and that their use should be restricted to areas where presentation quality is needed , for preparation of near-camera-ready copy and for documents distributed to outside bodies , such as commissioned Reports , etc . |
| 22 | One child may be ready and willing for sexual activity before the teens begin ; another may still be immature and unprepared on leaving school . |
| 23 | Martin informs us that the main sellers in this category are Squier 's ‘ Silver Series ’ J and P basses , built in Japan and popular for obvious reasons . |
| 24 | I will observe , Chairman , that there are reasonable and honourable and relatively well meaning people who truly believe that they have a natural right to hunt down foxes with dogs indeed to call the dogs hounds and believe that nobody has the right to interfere with their pleasures er , i in press they would no doubt speak of the right of free born Englishmen to do what they like but I 'd like them to consider Chairman , views of what it is right and proper for human beings to do have changed , as readers of John 's diaries will recall , barely three hundred years ago , he saw a woman being burned to death er in London for murdering her husband and people watched and no doubt thought that it was the right of free born Englishmen to enjoy the spectacle . |
| 25 | It is not , of course , enough for the landlord to say that he honestly believes that the house is fit and proper for safe habitation . |
| 26 | Each must have clearly defined product specifications so that resulting objects are well planned and appropriate for subsequent reuse . |
| 27 | If the rug retains the creases , or if they prove difficult to dislodge , then the wool is too soft and inelastic for top quality pile material . |
| 28 | The next two centuries saw an extensive use of this method of book illustration , but it was too costly and delicate for large editions . |
| 29 | Here , the agrarian issue was explosive , a matter of life and death for the Irish peasantry and crucial for Anglo-Irish landlordism . |
| 30 | The more skilful you are , the more you tend to cut corners which , if unchecked for long periods , degenerate into bad habits . |