Example sentences of "and [adj] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scheme is less helpful for the person who is handicapped from youth and has no experience of work , and it is not always suitable for those who are unused to and ill-suited for industrial work , for example , those from clerical work or service trades . |
| 2 | Seeking high and low for new rewards and new ways forward . |
| 3 | Group agreed that laser printers were uneconomical and unnecessary for normal correspondence , and that their use should be restricted to areas where presentation quality is needed , for preparation of near-camera-ready copy and for documents distributed to outside bodies , such as commissioned Reports , etc . |
| 4 | Group agreed that laser printers were uneconomical and unnecessary for normal correspondence , and that their use should be restricted to areas where presentation quality is needed , for preparation of near-camera-ready copy and for documents distributed to outside bodies , such as commissioned Reports , etc . |
| 5 | One child may be ready and willing for sexual activity before the teens begin ; another may still be immature and unprepared on leaving school . |
| 6 | Martin informs us that the main sellers in this category are Squier 's ‘ Silver Series ’ J and P basses , built in Japan and popular for obvious reasons . |
| 7 | I will observe , Chairman , that there are reasonable and honourable and relatively well meaning people who truly believe that they have a natural right to hunt down foxes with dogs indeed to call the dogs hounds and believe that nobody has the right to interfere with their pleasures er , i in press they would no doubt speak of the right of free born Englishmen to do what they like but I 'd like them to consider Chairman , views of what it is right and proper for human beings to do have changed , as readers of John 's diaries will recall , barely three hundred years ago , he saw a woman being burned to death er in London for murdering her husband and people watched and no doubt thought that it was the right of free born Englishmen to enjoy the spectacle . |
| 8 | It is not , of course , enough for the landlord to say that he honestly believes that the house is fit and proper for safe habitation . |
| 9 | Each must have clearly defined product specifications so that resulting objects are well planned and appropriate for subsequent reuse . |
| 10 | If the rug retains the creases , or if they prove difficult to dislodge , then the wool is too soft and inelastic for top quality pile material . |
| 11 | The next two centuries saw an extensive use of this method of book illustration , but it was too costly and delicate for large editions . |
| 12 | Here , the agrarian issue was explosive , a matter of life and death for the Irish peasantry and crucial for Anglo-Irish landlordism . |
| 13 | As Dr Johnson observed : ‘ sounds are too volatile and subtile for legal restraints ’ ( Bolton , 1966 : 152 ) , and the history of English phonology is not a history of the standard at all , but a history of vernaculars . |
| 14 | Even by the standards of ships that could set down upon the surfaces of worlds , the Tormentum Malorum was singularly sleek and streamlined for rapid departure or arrival through atmosphere . |
| 15 | Her therapist held that it was natural and healthy for human beings to assume that bad things happened only to other people in remote areas . |
| 16 | The controversy was quite fierce and embarrassing for Conservative ministers . |
| 17 | a leaflet designed by the Government to explain the new system of local authority finances ( white for Personal Charge Payers and pink for Standard Charge Payers ) |
| 18 | Nevertheless , the radioactivity imparted to the pebbles must be weak and transient for obvious health reasons , and this means that radioactivity detectors must be very near the pebbles before they are located , thus increasing the tedium of the experiments . |
| 19 | Adjectives like big and small are gradually restricted with the addition of pairs like tall and short for vertical extent , or long and short for horizontal extent ( Donaldson and Wales , 1979 ) . |
| 20 | Adjectives like big and small are gradually restricted with the addition of pairs like tall and short for vertical extent , or long and short for horizontal extent ( Donaldson and Wales , 1979 ) . |
| 21 | Improved communications are considered to be an asset both to traditional local industries such as oil , fish and drink and important for new investment . |
| 22 | Fats : Another source of energy , and important for healthy cell membrane structure . |
| 23 | Yet , it often happens that these variables are socially salient and important for historical projection on to earlier states of language . |
| 24 | Many of the ministries based in Moscow and responsible for specific branches of industry would be reconstituted as semi-independent corporations , according to the Financial Times of Nov. 6 . |
| 25 | The beach is really shallow and safe for young families . |
| 26 | There is a good case for excluding these economically inactive people since they can not really be described as capable and available for full-time work . |
| 27 | ( 2 ) To have at least one mobile force thoroughly familiar with these districts and available for immediate reaction to terrorist moves . |
| 28 | They did this by emphasising the development of measurement scales by which data could be systematically organised and available for various forms of mathematical manipulation . |
| 29 | Data from the original birth study and from follow-ups at the ages of seven , eleven and sixteen have been lodged with the Data Archive and available for secondary analysis for some time . |
| 30 | The last entry , the rule 's weight , should be large for reliable rules and small for unreliable ones . |