Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [verb] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is usual to provide for such circumstances by permitting expulsion where a partner , through ill health etc , is prevented from performing his obligations to the firm . |
| 2 | Contrary to approaches influenced by Lacan , there seems little reason to suppose that the unconscious is structured largely in relation to language or some other grammatical form , since in the intellectual representation of the external world it is possible to account for symbolic processes through a variety of other cognitive mechanisms ( e.g. Sperber 1975 ; 1979 ) . |
| 3 | Technically it is possible to adjust for these discrepancies by applying regression coefficients to the data , but even after this is done , major Japanese lead-time advantages — of 13 to 14 months — remain . |
| 4 | DAVE SEXTON , the England Under-21 manager , is prepared to search for friendly fixtures if his side fall out of the European Championships at the qualifying stage for the first time in 12 years . |
| 5 | He is a widower , with no family and few interests outside the hotel : as a result , he is prepared to work for long hours and generally acts as night porter during the week . |
| 6 | When dealing with the paranormal or supernatural , it is easy to look for rational explanations , but logical reasoning can not always explain the strange events that occur in people 's lives . |
| 7 | The United Kingdom holiday industry was in a period of rapid change and flux in late 1985 and this is likely to continue for some years to come . |
| 8 | The research to find a European version of taxol is likely to continue for some years . |
| 9 | It predicts that , despite tougher standards for new cars , the problem is likely to increase for some years to come , largely as a result of a lack of any controls over the emissions of vehicles already on the road . |
| 10 | For practical navigation , the thing you need to know is how much the water level is likely to vary for different values of atmospheric pressure . |
| 11 | Once diagnosed , a patient is lucky to survive for five years for , unlike cervical cancers , lung cancers are usually spotted too late for doctors to be able to destroy them . |
| 12 | The reason they recruit , or try to recruit , black policemen like you is that it 's supposed to make for better relationships between the black community and the police . |
| 13 | It is natural to look for causative factors , and we have treated causality much as it is treated in experimental research generally ( see Plutchik , 1974 : 174–87 ) . |
| 14 | Whatever we may think of Oliphant 's views , we have to assume there would be little point in attacks on [ h ] -dropping by the educated elite unless it was highly salient and widespread , and it is reasonable to assume for these reasons that it probably has quite a long history in the language . |
| 15 | Speech recognition , on the other hand , as featured in science fiction and typified by the HAL computer in 2001 — A Space Odyssey is unlikely to appear for many years yet , if ever . |
| 16 | Henrietta is a trained cook with a varied repertoire including French , Italian and Oriental food , and is happy to cater for special diets . |
| 17 | However , as will now be discussed , age structure is insufficient to account for observed changes . |
| 18 | A new Pax Europa or even Pax Japanica is difficult to envisage for all sorts of historical and geopolitical reasons . |
| 19 | No details were given of the glycaemic control or other metabolic parameters of the two groups of diabetics studied ( Davis et al , 1982 ) , and it is difficult to account for these findings . |
| 20 | The similarities between things called by the same name are indefinite and fluctuating ; one tries to pin terms down by definition , so that they can be used for strict inference , but Wittgenstein showed that in the vocabulary of natural languages the similarities are ‘ family resemblances ’ , by which A may be like B in one respect and B like C in another , but A like C in neither , so that it is useless to look for common characteristics by which to define the word which names them all . |
| 21 | Reallocation of space within the structure of roads is necessary to allow for wider pavements , and greater emphasis should be placed on creating pedestrianised areas . |
| 22 | Sometimes it is necessary to campaign for more resources by pointing out deficiencies . |
| 23 | Accordingly in such cases there must be an implied term of the contract with such an agent that he is entitled to act for other principals selling competing properties and to keep confidential the information obtained from each of his principals . |
| 24 | The questions that appear not to have been officially asked are to what extent will the projected gains accrue to areas already experiencing relative prosperity ; to what extent will these gains involve reductions in prosperity in underdeveloped/unfavoured regions and whether a transfer of some 4 per cent of the " net " gains is sufficient to compensate for such losses . |