Example sentences of "[adj] for the [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 NICK FALDO was scotched on the rocks but toasted a scintillating 70 for the halfway lead in the £1.8 million Johnnie Walker World Championship here yesterday .
2 He 'd done something dishonest for the first time in his business life , and it sat uneasily on his conscience .
3 X. Ray 's unshowy steadiness was right for the low time in which he newly found himself — he could put the fire out .
4 We liked this little scene for the corner of a patio : the cane chair is just right for the simple planting around it and extra interest is created by using a large limestone boulder , gravel and creeping plants such as thyme .
5 But I like Danny Bascombe , and I believe he 's right for the changing face of Barbados .
6 We 'll continue to improve our strategy until we eliminate these potentially unsafe conditions — we 're already working on getting it right for the next overhaul in 1993 .
7 It is rich for the hon. Member for Dagenham to claim that he is worried about the complexity of our proposal ; that from the hon. Gentleman who suggests that there should be property valuations on four different bases and annual rolling revaluations on a banded basis — although he keeps rather quiet about it .
8 Is it possible for the net return to capital to rise ?
9 Is it possible for the ordinary man in the street to become confident and competent in handling a computer system , whether it be in his office or in his home ?
10 As The Lord of the Rings was coming to the end of its gestation it became possible for the first time for political leaders to say they wanted nothing and make it come true .
11 The fourth attribute demanded by George Corner , that of understanding , is possible for the first time in the history of civilization ; but it is a possibility which so far is available to only a small minority of specialists .
12 With the advent of the new technology of lasers and holography it was possible for the first time in history to build the ancient consciousness-raising symbols out of pure light .
13 No mean problem , this , in a time largely deafened to such sober music , and were it not for the incomparable examples of Spenser and Milton , he might finally have despaired ; but what they in their day had achieved for their grave themes ought ( he had long believed ) to be possible for the richer store of myth and symbol at his disposal ; and now the lines had begun to move with the majesty he desired .
14 Its contents certainly merit much closer attention than on the whole has been made possible for the general public around Europe .
15 Derek Malcolm might have a point when he says that our idea of ‘ glamour ’ has also changed — making it possible for the 90s woman in the street to look glamorous , too .
16 He explained that he was interested in SCO being as strong as possible for the mutual fight against Microsoft .
17 Had the House of Lords retained the power to block the Commons utterly , and particularly had it not been possible for the Labour administration of 1945–51 force through its nationalisation policies by using the Parliament Act procedure to amend the 1911 Act , it is likely that the House of Lords would have been abolished .
18 It would not have been possible for the long progression towards the perfect physical being , to have ever occurred at all , if it were encumbered by the constraints of compassion , an emotion which , by the very nature of evolution was completely non-existent before the dawn of civilisation .
19 They want as many rabbits as possible for the minimum amount of effort and time commitment .
20 Some authorities believe that a really delicate reaction is only possible for the domestic cat at up to 45,000 cycles per second .
21 It is equally possible for the National Curriculum to be used as an instrument for managerial convenience and prejudice .
22 I 'm also looking forward to seeing a copy of the election manifesto on which he fights those elections and er er how it will be possible for the Conservative party to er put forward a manifesto that he is comfortable with and also a manifest that the honourable member for say Old Bexley and Sidcup is similarly comfortable with but er no doubt that 's a matter for the Conservative party .
23 When the library is a multi-media centre , it may be possible for the tape-slide sequence to be studied there , but in the typical school there would be severe limitations if more than a small proportion of students were set to do such study ; the library is usually too small for more than a tenth of the school population at best to use it at any one time .
24 If we 're going to go in and make a positive impact in certain parts of the region , erm then both my staff and myself and our colleagues who are working in the arts in the region have got to pull even harder together to make sure that we can make the partnership between us bureaucrats and the artist really be as effective as possible for the broadest range of the community .
25 Does he believe that , even with massive commitment and dedication , it will be possible for the large number of single-practice GPs in this country to measure up to the demands of the community care programme in 1993 ?
26 According to government figures in the first nine months of 1991 the number of immigrants of German origin ( Aussiedler ) fell to 166,786 from 337,394 for the same period of 1990 , but the number of asylum-seekers rose from 143,826 to 169,785 .
27 It would be impracticable and undesirable for the High Court of Justice to embark upon an inquiry concerning the effect or the effectiveness of the internal procedures in the High Court of Parliament or an inquiry whether in any particular case those procedures were effectively followed .
28 Senior officials from India and Pakistan met in New Delhi on Nov. 5-6 for the fifth round of talks on the Sir Creek border dispute relating to the demarcation of maritime boundaries in the Great Rann of Kutch [ see pp. 38153 ; 38533 ] .
29 She said it was unnecessary for the legal relationship of parent and child to be broken when the child was already secure in her new family .
30 Indeed , I would personally recommend that , as it is unnecessary for the full enjoyment of life , it should not be used .
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