Example sentences of "[adj] for [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They needed no professional help with the evening 's drinking but arose magically clear-headed and eagle-eyed for each subsequent day 's golf . |
| 2 | ‘ For instance , there is at present an order outstanding for two dozen piranha fish . ’ |
| 3 | The Catalan and Basque languages were compulsorily replaced by Castilian Spanish for all public purposes ( including speech outside the home , teaching , the press , literature and drama ) and the music , dancing and folk songs traditional in those regions were proscribed . |
| 4 | After debriefing , he was due for two full days of leave . |
| 5 | Given one week 's pay due for each whole year 's service from 22nd birthday to 41st birthday . |
| 6 | Given 1½ weeks ' pay due for each whole year 's service from 41st birthday to retirement . |
| 7 | If you have not bought any new appliances since you first moved into your home , or if your family has changed in numbers , you might be due for some updated versions . |
| 8 | But is n't it due for some extensive reform ? |
| 9 | He was due for some unpleasant surprises , she felt . |
| 10 | ( Although half the members of the upper house were due for re-election in mid-1992 , elections in the lower house were not due for another two years . ) |
| 11 | It managed to hold its own yesterday and if it continues to strengthen the pundits reckon we could be due for another prolonged rally in shares in the New Year . |
| 12 | Data Logic is still working on the CICS/6000 port , which is n't due for another nine months , a project that is engaging around one third of its workforce . |
| 13 | That explained why Margaret was not due for another ten days . |
| 14 | It was due for considerable internal reform . |
| 15 | They also offer relatively modest time allocations for practical and prevocational subjects in upper primary classes , a feature which may reflect a lack of real conviction by syllabus panels to respond to the political creed that such studies are necessary and profitable for primary level children , but may also be born of a firm realistic assessment of the lack of money and materials to make such studies workable . |
| 16 | Observers expect the Santa Cruz Operation to announce a profit for its first quarter shortly : the market is expected to want the company to prove it can be profitable for one further quarter through to March — without Larry Michels — before issuing an initial public offering next April with the aim of going public in June . |
| 17 | But what we have to notice here is that it can not be right for mere historical description either : as there is no such thing as a uniform language or dialect ( and standardization implies uniformity ) , and as sound-changes do not proceed in straight lines , this can not possibly be an adequate conceptualization of English phonological history . |
| 18 | His closing remark is ‘ sounds right for ongoing Christian Aid ? ’ . |
| 19 | Thompsons also stock a large range of gift wrap and stationery to cover most businesses , and right now they are showing off the most unusual range of candles which are just right for that special occasion . |
| 20 | In some ways that was the classic sound that I had with Whitesnake , but that sound was n't usable in later , more AOR versions of either that band or even other things that I 've done ; all you can say is that it was right for that particular music . |
| 21 | Under pressure from Russian nationalists , however , Yeltsin had made increasingly overt statements in the weeks preceding his visit suggesting that the time was not right for any major alteration in the status of the disputed territory , and calling for greater Japanese flexibility on the issue of the sovereignty of the islands . |
| 22 | This month 's delicious dinner party is just right for fraught festive days — and as end-of-the-year budgets are likely to be tight , none of the wines the GH team chose is expensive . |
| 23 | He named it Latimeria and informed an astonished world that a creature thought to have been extinct for 70 million years was still alive . |
| 24 | The Democratic caucus in the House decided in 1971 that members should be limited to one sub-committee chairmanship thereby making it possible for many more congressmen to hold these coveted posts . |
| 25 | On the other hand , without the gay community there would not have been the collective response of support which has made it possible for many gay men to live with AIDS or the fear of AIDS . |
| 26 | English pragmatism had made it possible for many educational administrators to use an intelligence test in addition to examinations of attainment , as a refinement of their selection process . |
| 27 | Areal data will not suffice by themselves , since it is quite possible for aggregate areal food production to increase in such a way that increasing numbers of people have difficulty feeding themselves . |
| 28 | But how was it possible for two different people who clearly knew some basic mechanical principles to have a go and produce answers that were nonsense ? |
| 29 | While all firms have income and retained earnings statements similar to these tables , it is possible for two identical firms with identical cash flows to end up with different reported earnings because they use different accounting conventions . |
| 30 | Thus was it possible for one new Sprinter vehicle to replace at least two old DMU coaches . |