Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [be] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The area was about four hours away from Edinburgh or Glasgow — near enough to be accessible for weekends , far enough to be considered remote . |
| 2 | But an FA spokesman said : ‘ Graham is not worried because he feels that if the game was being played at Wembley today , they would all be fit enough to be available for selection . ’ |
| 3 | The obvious disadvantage here is the possibility of cold spots along the stitching and such bags tend only to be good for one or two season use . |
| 4 | Together with the Temiskamming and Northern Ontario Railway it also opened up northern Ontario , which was discovered not only to be good for settlement , but also to possess staggering mineral resources in copper , gold , silver , zinc , and cobalt . |
| 5 | An exclusion of liability for negligence in a consumer contract was held unreasonable at first instance in Woodman v Photo Trade Processing Ltd ( 1981 ) , unreported where a clause in a contract for the processing of photographs provided that in the event of loss the processor was only to be liable for the value of the unprocessed material . |
| 6 | If this perspective is adopted , environmentalists ought perhaps to be grateful for the fact that the vast majority of farmers are not more economically rational when they come to organize the husbandry of their farms and that the inertia introduced by the historical pattern of landownership and farm structure in this country has acted as a brake on landscape change . |
| 7 | Deletion clones in the mouse homolog T160 ( 22 ) and in rat HMG1 ( 35 ) have delineated the HMG-box region alone to be sufficient for interaction and binding to DNA . |
| 8 | Labour would be acquiescing in a ‘ democratic outrage ’ if it continued arguing that , because the Conservatives had got away with being undemocratic for so long , it was now Labour 's turn . |
| 9 | Arrive punctually to be ready for the sound check at the agreed time . |
| 10 | She needed desperately to be alone for a little while — to think . |
| 11 | We feel it 's bound eventually to be open for 24 hours . ’ |
| 12 | Dessie Farrell , one of the few Dublin players to emerge from last with his reputation intact , is back in the side today after being absent for two months through injury . |
| 13 | compensation for suspected cases instead of being dilatory for 18 months , the problem would have been contained much more quickly . |
| 14 | Apart from being disinclined for work , Mrs Peterson was showing her age more than ever and was not capable of sustained effort . |
| 15 | He remembered her at moments such as these and felt a twinge of guilt — not a searing kick in the gut — which , he supposed , was something else to be thankful for . |
| 16 | Commercials are often produced which depend principally on being pretty for their effect , in the absence of an idea . |
| 17 | Now , clearly , in many circumstances where the property of an adjective matches a speaker 's perception , it may not need to be assigned — i.e. stated explicitly to be valid for the entity concerned — on the grounds that it is felt to be a characteristic sufficiently basic to the entity not to need assignment , as opposed to being called upon as an initial qualifying and identifying element . |
| 18 | I ought therefore to be grateful for being disorientated by the unfamiliar and the chance to focus the innocent eye . |