Example sentences of "[adj] for [adj] other [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The suggestion that conventionalism reduces surprise must assume , then , not that surprise is unfair but that it is undesirable for some other reason : that it is inefficient , for example , or imposes unnecessary risks , or frightens people , or is otherwise not in the general interest . |
| 2 | Ashton thus created a special style fur a particular character which summed up — as it were — her whole being , but which would have been unsuitable for any other ballet . |
| 3 | The sycamore ( Acer pseudoplatanus ) is widespread , particularly so on the Downs near the coast where conditions are unsuitable for most other tree species , and it is much favoured by passage migrants . |
| 4 | bring into active play all the possible forces , schools and clubs , etc. , to neutralise and overcome the pernicious influences of ‘ blind alley ’ employment , to insure that , however uneducative and useless a juvenile 's job may be from the point of view of the future , he shall not on that account emerge from it unfitted for any other kind of labour . |
| 5 | By then a title had been decided on , they had thought of Where It 's At , right for the times , but wrong for any other time . |
| 6 | Unable to follow his original line of work in demolition following industrial injury and , unqualified for any other job , he finds himself , at the age of 57 , resigned to a life on the dole until pension age arrives . |
| 7 | It was ( and is ) impossible for many other travellers to stay at home too . |
| 8 | But exercise is an important part of keeping fit for many other reasons . |
| 9 | But Dent is famous for many other things : its " Terrible Knitters " ; Dent marble ; Adam Sedgwick ; and , of course , its vampire . |
| 10 | They are useful for many other jobs around the home and garden . |
| 11 | Boeing builds the ALCM , but the Convair Division of General Dynamics is responsible for all other types , including the ground-launched missile . |
| 12 | Sykes was also responsible for many other signalling and safety devices , including depression or fouling bars interlocked with signals , thus providing valuable protection against these inadvertently being set to allow the passage of a train if other trains were obstructing its path . |
| 13 | Remarks made on Dec. 6 by an APLA spokesperson were widely seen as a " declaration of war " on the white community , and APLA was also believed to have been responsible for various other incidents . |
| 14 | Just as the first Venetians found that the water-logged islands of their lagoon , far from merely affording them protection from their enemies on land , also provided them with ideal access to the sea and with it immense possibilities of wealth and naval power , so it emerged in the course of human social evolution that the psychological mechanisms which had been necessary in socializing man also proved serviceable for many other enterprises and in time produced the great flowering of human culture which we see around us today . |
| 15 | However in applications where the load is likely to fluctuate the timings must he set for the worst conditions ( i.e. largest load ) and the control scheme is then non-optimal for all other loads . |
| 16 | Only when transport was made available for some other reason did journalists — meaning , as a rule , Government journalists — get a chance to report news from Zambia 's rural areas . |
| 17 | ISDN is currently priced in fixed 64Kb/second chunks , which some see as a limitation : with the latest compression techniques in place , 64Kb is a bit excessive for phone calls , but it is insufficient for some other purposes . |
| 18 | SIR — The England cricket squad contesting the World Cup in Australia included players who would have been eligible for three other nations — West Indies , South Africa and Zimbabwe . |
| 19 | any other financial arrangements contained in the agreement shall not thereby be rendered void or unenforceable and shall , unless they are void or unenforceable for any other reason ( and subject to sections 35 and 36 , below ) be binding on the parties to the agreement . |
| 20 | ‘ unless void or unenforceable for any other reason , ’ |
| 21 | It is not necessary for any other member of the party to write to us . |
| 22 | The same is true for many other periods ; for instance , coins provide a date for the deposit of the great Viking hoard from Cuerdale in Lancashire of c.AD905 , and this in turn provides a date for the associated objects and hence a pivotal fixed chronological point for our understanding of Anglo-Saxon metalwork . |
| 23 | However , on behalf of many of my constituents — I am sure that this is true for many other people around the country — I should like to stress that , although none of us thought in 1979 that we would be discussing this situation today , as a result of it many of our constituents have received a quality of life far superior to that which they might otherwise have had . |