Example sentences of "[adj] for [adj] [noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French would be content so long as the arrangement was for them to sell abroad ; there can , however , be no question of France permitting her massive investment in nuclear power to be undermined by making it possible for French consumers to buy in from abroad . |
| 2 | Disability Working Allowance will make it easier for disabled people to take up a job . |
| 3 | Some agencies prefer that provision should be made to make it easier for confused tenants to move on from sheltered housing . |
| 4 | However , it is impossible for small builders to take on trainees . |
| 5 | Given the thriving circular trade , it was easy for counterfeit manufacturers to pass off goods which they know would not be checked , said Mr Lumley . |
| 6 | As Iris Murdoch has remarked in admiration of Dickens and Tolstoy , the great novelist creates a house fit for free character to live in : free , that is , to live lives untrammelled by the allegorical or the stereotypical , to be as quirky , unpredictable , and self-contradicting as beings one knows in a real world . |
| 7 | Meeting Thomas reminded me that human relations do n't have to be like this , that in other countries you open your account in credit , and unless you squander that goodwill by behaving like a complete arsehole , the mutual warmth continues to grow with every subsequent encounter , as though it were natural for human beings to get on together . |
| 8 | He concludes : ‘ So although at first it is also natural for civilized people to condemn out of hand what I had just witnessed as disgraceful heathen bestiality , they , too , if they were honest might come to feel it was at least partly redeemed by the genuine religious conviction on which it is based . ’ |
| 9 | Their marriage was certainly not typical , yet it is possible that even in the early twentieth century it was not uncommon for retired men to take on more responsibility at home , as many do today : for lack of other evidence , we can only speculate . |
| 10 | The former has several aero clubs and schools , ( Auckland Aero Club , Ardmore Flying School , Flightline Aeronautical College , Tasman Air Services etc. ) , with dozens of aircraft , Cessna , Piper , Grunman etc. available for visiting pilots to check out on and rent . |
| 11 | It is very common for new students to give up after about three months . |
| 12 | And was it common for riveting squads to accumulate out of families ? |
| 13 | It is common for old people to play down the extent of the abuse and it is not easy to gauge how far their reluctance to discuss alternative care is due to fear of the unknown rather than acceptance of the situation . |
| 14 | Major financiers and industrialists , notably those in St Petersburg , were made acutely conscious of their dependence on ministerial goodwill and it became increasingly common for senior officials to take up directorships on the boards of leading companies . |
| 15 | As an important by-product it will also make it difficult for prospective bidders to build up stakes in secret . |
| 16 | At the North of Australia are tropical rain forests which are very difficult for large communities to live in due to the heat , humidity and being unable to expand without the destruction of trees . |
| 17 | In a world where British influence is conspicuously waning it might not be in the interests of a secure national identity to throw it open for young Britons to gaze on . |
| 18 | That conclusion is supported by contemporary evidence from Qureshi and Simons 's ( 1987 ) study in Sheffield , which clearly indicates that it is rare for elderly people to move in with their children in order to be cared for . |
| 19 | cos it 's very bad for fat people to jump up and down , erm |