Example sentences of "be [adj] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The required yield from the division may then be stable for long periods , apart from variations in the level of interest rates generally . |
| 2 | But we should be grateful for small mercies . ’ |
| 3 | Not for them the comfortable life ; they might get ideas above their station , which was to devote themselves to hard labour and be grateful for small mercies . |
| 4 | These days , this is about as innovative as Hollywood gets , of course , but when the result is performed with the pace and panache of Russell Mulcahy 's Ricochet , maybe we should be grateful for small mercies . |
| 5 | From now on she could be grateful for small mercies and be content to take one step at a time . |
| 6 | Certain occupations were held to be unfitting for baptized believers ; magic , idolatry , eroticism , games in the amphitheatre ranked as unsuitable occupations . |
| 7 | Gardens which have been carefully designed and closely planted may appear to be unsuitable for additional plantings of herbs , but a herbaceous border , for instance , which needs to be re-dug every few years , with some of its incumbents divided or discarded , can well take some herbal plants , to supply flowers and/or architectural quality . |
| 8 | A reviewer of a hangman program recently suggested that the detail was so gruesome as to be unsuitable for young children ! |
| 9 | I considered keeping observation actually on the flat but because of its its location , did not feel that it would be possible for armed officers or for that matter , any officer , to maintain observation for any period of time without being seen . |
| 10 | This would not matter very much ( for it would always be possible for individual candidates to prove the expectation wrong ) , if it were not for the fact that whole papers in the final examination , or certain questions on papers , are to be ‘ differentiated ’ . |
| 11 | The system is being developed so that it will be possible for individual chambers to identify particular court cases . |
| 12 | Whilst it may be possible for certain hoists and lifts to be provided with dual controls and to be relied upon to assist in the initial stages of smouldering fire or even the last stages of salvage and reinstatement , and whilst the provision of a portable extinguisher could be regarded as standard , the dangers involved in aligning the confines of a lift or cage to a developing fire in the only manner by which it could be used effectively are sufficiently great to warrant special mention when consideration is being given to emergency planning . |
| 13 | He also pointed out that other named awards might be possible for specific purposes such as certification of access courses . |
| 14 | Would it be possible for other areas to be given housing action trusts , in addition to all the resources and programmes that my hon. Friend has mentioned ? |
| 15 | It is therefore safe for a fire-engine driver to proceed at a higher speed than would be possible for other drivers . |
| 16 | It should also be possible for extraordinary meetings of partners to be convened on reasonable notice ( Clause 17.04 ) ; by any one partner ( in a small or medium sized firm ) or a specified number ( in a larger concern ) . |
| 17 | In the still longer term it would be possible for national planners and institutional managers of initial teacher education to adjust the mix of curriculum , pedagogy and school-based learning in such a way as to narrow avoidable gaps between initial and in-service teacher education . |
| 18 | I am sure that Opposition Members will be delighted to hear me speak about the free market because they were in some doubt about whether it would be possible for Conservative Members to mention that . |
| 19 | In particular , the evaluation of model derivatives and the use of more than one model simultaneously would only be possible for large systems within such a framework . |
| 20 | The World Bank reckons that a Trinidad deal would still be unsustainable for weak economies like those of Somalia , Mozambique and Sudan . |
| 21 | We have now shown that , even for a single symptom shared by a set of patients the explanation of that symptom might be different for different patients . |
| 22 | The qualitative approach may be acceptable for small systems , but for more substantial enterprises it would be surprising if the development of more disciplined and rigorous approaches , say through the wider use of mathematics , would not be more successful and lead to new types of opportunity . |
| 23 | Austria — which , though not yet an EC member , has applied ‘ emergency brakes ’ on imports of eastern cement , fertilisers and tractors — has said it would be wrong for Austrian firms , having invested in environmental safeguards , to go bust because of competition from East European rivals who have not . |
| 24 | But the way will be clear for American Airlines and United Airlines , to buy the London services of TWA and Pan Am . |
| 25 | It would be foolish for western governments to relax the pressure while most of the reforms remain on paper ( so say a polite ’ no ’ to Solidarity 's Mr Lech Walesa if , after this week 's deal , the Polish government sends him cap.in-hand to the West ) . |
| 26 | Errors in recall can be similar for different individuals . |
| 27 | This will be appropriate for simple subjects in a faceted classification scheme . |
| 28 | As evidence of funds availability it may not be appropriate for actual funds to be deposited to the firm 's account . |
| 29 | These go beyond the immediate issues raised by a particular case and spell out the range of penalties felt to be appropriate for varying degrees of seriousness within a given offence category . |
| 30 | In other words designers at DEC may have been able to make some process concessions to achieve a record clock rate that might not be appropriate for other architectures . |