Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Although unfit for military service , he joined the Artists ' Rifles Officers ' Training Corps and began an active social career . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | — generally , dictionaries have more senses than necessary for broad applications but too few for specific applications ; |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The more skilful you are , the more you tend to cut corners which , if unchecked for long periods , degenerate into bad habits . |
| 8 | They also pray for each other at a distance and give each other freedom to phone at any hour of the day or night if necessary for personal support . |
| 9 | Even so , reptiles accumulate an oxygen debt if active for long periods , as well as suffering from fatigue and slow rates of repayment . |
| 10 | They aim to ratify the Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of Pet Animals which ‘ prohibits tail docking , ear cropping and other mutilations unless necessary for therapeutic reasons ’ . |
| 11 | Conversely , warnings against red and blue screens , while appropriate for monochrome displays , restrict the helpful use of these in multicolour screens as markers . |
| 12 | Thus women who are 45 years old or more will not have been commonly exposed to OC use while young for long periods . |
| 13 | Business as usual for new Wigan boss |
| 14 | Following Stalin 's death in 1953 , a divided Party leadership had reason to feel apprehensive as well as grateful for military support in the struggle against Beria and the MVD-MGB apparatus . |
| 15 | This organisation happily ploughs a furrow totally at odds with the notion of free trade , by making it as difficult as Possible for non-German companies to sell their wares in Germany without DIN approval — even where EEC law says that the only approval necessary is from the country of origin . |
| 16 | Those who are newly bereaved and naturally dread the loneliness of returning to an empty house should be visited frequently in their own homes ; and when you are able to persuade them to get out of their own four walls as much as possible for fresh air and exercise and to meet others and visit relatives , it can be a considerable help if you can bring them home and go in with them for a cup of tea or a chat , even if it is only just for a quarter of an hour . |
| 17 | Leave this on as long as possible for maximum results . |
| 18 | FRS 3 , Reporting Financial Performance , issued last October , should be adopted by companies as soon as possible , and regarded as standard for financial statements relating to reporting periods ending on or after 22 June 1993 . |
| 19 | In general , in such languages , it is almost impossible to say anything at all which is not sociolinguistically marked as appropriate for certain kinds of addressees only . |
| 20 | As permutations of speed restraint measures , lower speed limits and priority changes are not part of the package being applied in new areas , they are not seen as appropriate for existing ones either . |
| 21 | The Colon Classification is widely used in the Indian subcontinent , but the style of enumeration of subjects is not regarded as appropriate for Western libraries . |
| 22 | Specially adapted accommodation will house a permanent exhibition of equipment later this year and an amateur station GB21WM ( or other call as appropriate for special events ) will operate every Sunday during the main visitors season . |
| 23 | Publicly , he defended the president 's huge powers as imperative for national survival in the late-twentieth century . |
| 24 | But by the time he was assessed as fit for open prison in Britain he 'd become the leading figure in Australia 's organised crime world … involved in drug smuggling … fraud and firearms offences |
| 25 | It describes the 1000 with 512Mb RAM , nine 3.5-inch disks and two SCSI channels as fit for business-critical client/server workgroups and small departments . |
| 26 | A report in The Northern Echo on Wednesday said that 438 pigs in the Wear Valley were condemned as unfit for human consumption in November and December . |
| 27 | 10 In determining for the purposes of this Act whether a house is unfit for human habitation , regard shall be had to its condition in respect of the following matters — repair , stability , freedom from damp , internal arrangement , natural lighting , ventilation , water supply , drainage and sanitary conveniences , facilities for preparation and cooking of food and for the disposal of waste water ; and the house shall be regarded as unfit for human habitation if , and only if , it is so far defective in one or more of those matters that it is not reasonably suitable for occupation in that condition . |
| 28 | The prominence of a luminal neutrophil chemoattractant in active Crohn 's disease may partly explain the observation that treatments directed towards altering the luminal milieu ( elemental diets , total parentral nutrition , and diversion surgery ) are consistently as effective for active Crohn 's disease as they are ineffective for patients with ulcerative colitis . |
| 29 | One must not overlook the ‘ crisis of 1858 ‘ , when scurrilous anonymous letters appeared in the London Times complaining about the sewage in Pau , and the high price of lodgings , while a few years later another medical man , Dr Madden , publicly attacked the climate as pernicious for pulmonary cases . |
| 30 | Gallup recently found that scientists are seen as responsible for environmental problems , although industrialists and politicians are regarded as even more responsible . |