Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [adj] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chalk , for instance , is too porous and mechanically weak for karren development . |
| 2 | According to Lorton , the Newleys ' burglar-alarm system was ten or fifteen years old and long overdue for retirement . |
| 3 | A French film maker , François Margolin , has produced a new film , ‘ Mensonges ’ ( ‘ Lies ’ ) , in which Nathalie Baye plays a woman who finds herself pregnant and also seropositive for AIDS — because her lover , played by Didier Sandre , had concealed a homosexual affair . |
| 4 | He argued that the spread of AIDS among teenagers was too obvious and too wide for inaction . |
| 5 | I is also rather costly and too strong for routine use by those on weight-loss programmes . |
| 6 | The opening Allegro assai is light and airy and would raise a few eyebrows even in the style-conscious 1990s , but the following movements are respectively too sleepy , too hearty and too metallic for comfort . |
| 7 | It blasphemed God 's goodness to declare that one day , the seventh , was holier than the other six ( the Christian Sunday was seen as the eighth day , pointing beyond time to eternity ) ; that some food or animals were clean and others unclean ; that some nations were less God 's children than others , or that a natural function , such as menstruation , made women unholy and hence unfit for contact with God . |
| 8 | ‘ Some of the TDs can not ignore the situation and it is going to become more and more difficult for Enterprise and Employment Minister Ruairi Quinn to avoid appointing a High Court inspector . ’ |
| 9 | The male mafia will close ranks and deem such a woman unstable , neurotic and quite unsuitable for responsibility . |
| 10 | Problems of inequality and disadvantage are thus , in one sense , too big and too fundamental for education per se , let alone adult education , to resolve . |
| 11 | Again , since truth is held to be individual and also fallible , rulership will be both conditional and also temporary ; because clearly the views as to what is true and therefore proper for government to act upon will change from time to time as opinion fluctuates amongst the body of the people . |