Example sentences of "be room for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were all thin people — there 'd almost have been room for a fourth person in the double his parents had bought him as a wedding present , so getting three people in it was certainly not an impossibility . |
| 2 | I wonder how he would have done in today 's game , do you think there would have been room for him today ? |
| 3 | Of course , there will always be room for a reassuring and reliable M&S , Boots or WHSmith as a shop of last resort . |
| 4 | First , there always has been and always will be room for a small shopkeeper with a bright idea . |
| 5 | This social policy might support a duty to enquire about age wherever there might be room for doubt , and the ease of compliance ( because of the inevitable physical proximity of the parties ) again favours the requirement . |
| 6 | ‘ But if they ca n't be shifted , there 'll never be room for you , no matter how much better than them you may be at the job . ’ |
| 7 | There may be many things you would like to say in this report but there will only be room for important ones . |
| 8 | That is , assuming there will be room for them once the full panoply of testing and assessment is in place . |
| 9 | Amongst such considerations , however , there must still be room for the needs of society , for what the European Convention calls ‘ the protection of health or morals ’ . |
| 10 | The frame of reference for all this ferment in the official mind remained the idea of the Commonwealth , which during the war received an impetus from the need to show the Americans , in words if not in deeds , that there would be room for a British empire in the brave new post-war world , and also from the genuine idealism stimulated in some British imperialists — as it had been stimulated in the previous war — by a desire to distinguish themselves from the Germans and their imperial ambitions . |
| 11 | There may well be room for one or two such centres in other places , but in our view the success of the centre in Birmingham owes a very great deal to the almost evangelical enthusiasm of those who run it . |
| 12 | There should just be room for your finger , and your toes should not feel cramped . |
| 13 | In any piece of fiction there must be room for the reader — room for him to jump at a suggestion , to insert himself into a story , to respond to hints and clues : to be told what is offered to him is to encourage him to read passively and so to give him less than he deserves . |
| 14 | Check before you buy that there will be room for the drawers to open . |
| 15 | Looking about him at the great press of people , the escalator that was a river of people flowing on and on , the crowds that streamed down the stairs so that if a train was held up there would be room for no more to squeeze on to the platform , he wondered why a terrorist group had never thought of putting a bomb in the tube . |
| 16 | N may be too large for there to be room for that number of add instructions to be held economically in the store , or the value of N may not be known when the program is being prepared ( for example it might be read in as a piece of data ) . |
| 17 | In extreme cases all instructions have such unused fields , and then there may be room for two instructions to a word . |
| 18 | There should be room for relaxation , for sport , for social and cultural activities as well as academic work . |
| 19 | Mr. Beloff was not disposed to challenge this proposition although he said there might be room for dispute as to whether some of the damage which has in fact been suffered was caused by Norwich 's termination of the agency agreement . |
| 20 | Mr. Beloff accepts that there remain issues between Lautro and Winchester and he further accepts that there may be room for argument as to whether the material now available would , if it had been produced before 30 October , have made a difference to the decision taken on that day . |
| 21 | Mr. Beloff was not disposed to challenge this proposition although he said there might be room for dispute as to whether some of the damage which has in fact been suffered was caused by Norwich 's termination of the agency agreement . |
| 22 | He argued that since there was evidence of market failure ( Chapter 2 ) and public sector failure ( Chapter 3 ) it was logical to expect there to be room for a third kind of organisation that served purposes which public and market institutions failed to do . |
| 23 | ‘ There 's not going to be room for olives soon , ’ Constance told him . |
| 24 | This section of land lies between the canal and the River Tame and leads along to the A5127 northeast-bound where there might be room for a vehicle to pull off the road into the gateway to load up beneath the M6 . |
| 25 | There always seems to be room for a new maker of jeans . |
| 26 | The ‘ meaning ’ of the symbols in any information technology is arbitrary , and there is no reason why we should not assign combinations , say triplets , from DNA 's 4-letter alphabet , to letters of our own 26-letter alphabet ( there would be room for all the upper and lower-case letters with 12 punctuation characters ) . |
| 27 | Where they contradicted each other in inessential points there might be room for debate and uncertainty . |
| 28 | Meanwhile there would still be room for outsiders to show initiative in asking interesting questions of companies , and coming to their own conclusions . |
| 29 | Would there be room for his Roller ? |
| 30 | There must also be room for deliveries of bulk items , taking Institute subscriptions , taking membership subs . |