Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adj] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no neurophysiological model of the kind of convergence that would seem to be necessary for the many different sensations of the moment to be brought into synthetic unity , without loss of their individual distinctiveness and specificity , into the instantaneous sense of ‘ being here ’ ; or of the manner in which experience of many different moments can be synthesized into a sense of continuing self without those moments losing their separateness in memory . |
| 2 | It will require some things that are going to be necessary for the statutory and voluntary sectors in any case and it will mean drawing the private sector in , like a common assessment policy for all long term care . |
| 3 | By the time the timpani signalled a perky rapprochement of the Chichester Psalms and the Young Person 's Guide , having long ago left Berg behind , there was every reason to be grateful for the consistent vigour of the solo writing and to admire Zukerman 's unstinted flair in putting it across . |
| 4 | It was North who , by his own account , rushed into Reagan 's television room during the evacuation of American students from Grenada in 1983 , desperate that the students might forget ( on network television ) to be grateful for the American invasion that had freed them ; when the first student said ‘ Thank God for America ’ , Reagan hugged him , and told him he ought to have faith . |
| 5 | The walkers are expected to be grateful for the left-over street space that is allocated to them and to not object when more is taken for road widening and comer-shaving , or when motorists use the remaining pavement to park on . |
| 6 | A custom-built Shetland Islands Council ferry , Westering Homewards , is lying unused on the mainland after she was found to be unsafe for the exposed 22-mile Atlantic crossing . |
| 7 | Eventually , among a great variety of substances , there appeared one that was to be crucial for the further development of life . |
| 8 | Bruce Dern said Corman did him and Nicholson a favour by getting them a part because they both needed the money at the time ; Corman arranged it so that their shooting schedules would require them to be available for the first and last weeks of the four-week stint , thus , under union rules guaranteeing them a salary cheque for the full four weeks . |
| 9 | In order for this material to be available for the future good records management practices are essential . |
| 10 | Each type of instrument has its particular advantages and disadvantages , and it seems likely that both types will continue to be available for the foreseeable future . |
| 11 | Lower than expected corporate tax revenues and rising welfare expenditure were held to be accountable for the increased projection . |
| 12 | It would be a mistake , however , to dismiss this aspect of the Liberal reform programme as being of no legislative or historical significance , at least in so far as the preceding details have revealed that the different schemes were the result of much thought and argument on the part of a number of interest groups , each of which cared about the transition process , believing it to be critical for the economic and moral welfare of working-class youth . |
| 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 | A thorough understanding of the way official statistics were collected and of the workings of the administration is shown to be essential for the proper interpretation of these data . |
| 15 | They 're going to be cheaper for the English market but they 'll have to put on their prices for the export market for those that are going out |
| 16 | Registration at an exchange was not to be compulsory for the unemployed ; their large numbers and the mismatch of many of them with the available jobs would have led the scheme into immediate crisis . |
| 17 | My suggestion is that the evolution of subcutaneous fat in neonates and post-natal depression is an example of co-evolution and what has happened is mothers are programmed to be depressed for the first few days after birth because in primal conditions when remember this is where evolution set the parameters of human behaviour , in primal conditions it would probably pay a mother to test her new-born offspring to see if it could survive , because if it was defective or if it was sickly , or if there was some reason why that baby could n't make it to adulthood and its own reproductive life , that mother should not invest in it , because that 's her reproductive success . |
| 18 | Please contact ( retiring only because Alex is getting too mobile to be safe for the new babies ) on for further details . |
| 19 | Our Institute must find a way to defend our interests in the matter of fee income while appearing to be concerned for the public interest as well . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , by applying phonetic values known to be valid for the Linear B script , a number of interpretations have been attempted . |
| 21 | Suppose , however , that I simulate or even by coincidence pass through whatever sequence of states is taken to be sufficient for the conscious episode of feeling the prick of the needle . |
| 22 | It seems to be unusual for the Prime Minister or the Lord Chancellor to consult other ministers ( except that the Lord Chancellor may discuss the matter with the Attorney-General and the Solicitor-General ) unless any such minister happens to be also a distinguished member of the bar , as was Sir Stafford Cripps in Mr Attlee 's administration from 1945 . |
| 23 | To be eligible for the free weekend runners must raise at least £150 in sponsorship . |
| 24 | Her piercing household face swam across his eyeline , even more changed from its former self than now , and hermetic in its enthusiasm for nursery objects properly researched by child psychiatrists to be fit for the middle-class children who would lose them without a pang . |
| 25 | WALES flanker Emyr Lewis , out of action since aggravating a shoulder injury last month , could struggle to be fit for the Five Nations match against England in Cardiff on February 6 . |
| 26 | ENGLAND batsman Robin Smith is to have a shoulder operation but hopes to be fit for the new domestic season . |
| 27 | Steve Douce , the British champion who missed the Nations Cup race at Wolverhampton with badly bruised ribs , is expected to be fit for the second round of the Falcon National Trophy series in Leeds on Sunday . |
| 28 | Aitken , 31 and capped 50 times , is battling to be fit for the Premier Division match against Hibs at Easter Road . |
| 29 | Barnes , 30 , added : ‘ I knew fairly soon that I was out of the Test match and now I am struggling to be fit for the Taranaki game on Wednesday . |
| 30 | In particular , some topics are picked out which are very likely to be difficult for the top third of the " lowest 40 per cent " . |