Example sentences of "be [adj] [noun sg] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , it would have been professional suicide for a civil servant to describe the indignities of derangement and to represent himself as having been mad , unless the facts were as well known to his colleagues and masters as he says they were ; while to try , on the other hand , to put his known condition in a better light , as Hoccleve does , is sensible only if the fact of his illness was well known but his recovery less well recognised , which is what he claims . |
| 2 | Department X is working at 50% capacity but the staff are guaranteed payment for a 35 hour week . |
| 3 | THE STRIKE at Britain 's waterworks has been good news for a sheltered workshop in Watford . |
| 4 | He had been wanting reassurance for a long time and he had n't been getting any . |
| 5 | We are fleeing Earth for a new world while there is still hope , while there are still changes . |
| 6 | More significantly , perhaps , I was annoyed because I expect this financial services organisation to recognise the totality of its relationship to me when making decisions in respect of specific transactions ; in this case to realise that its interest in my house should be adequate collateral for a small and presumably temporary overdraft . |
| 7 | Such thoughts were poor stimulus for a conscience-stricken appetite , and although the restaurant which Ven took her to was smart , and the food good , Fabia was able to eat only little . |
| 8 | Which were good money for a single fella . |
| 9 | The KPP recognised that the city 's economic difficulties were fertile ground for a German nationalist reaction , and that the Versailles solution was unworkable . |
| 10 | ‘ Innes Place had been vacant ground for a long number of years , and the planning people insisted that there never had been houses fronting on to the Donegall Road , ’ Mr Smyth explained . |
| 11 | IT 'S rotten luck for a prolific writer of talent to be known for only one work , a masterpiece which overshadows any later writing . |
| 12 | He is hot favourite for a semi-final place . |
| 13 | One group is developing hardware for a personal computer , sufficiently robust and inexpensive to be useful in the Third World . |
| 14 | In group 2 the red noise is weak , and there is marginal evidence for a similar broad feature ( Fig. 1 b ) . |
| 15 | " From what he tells me there is abundant reason for a special audit , and my own work will be perfectly genuine . |
| 16 | The teacher should always notify the record office in advance and check that there is suitable material for a particular topic . |
| 17 | The wide range of motivation and attainment encountered amongst pupils opting to study a community language is sufficient argument for a deliberate concentration on methods of teaching which can adequately meet the needs of the different categories of learners . |
| 18 | Quartz grains may also contain solid inclusions , the mineralogy of which may give evidence of provenance ( e.g. sillimanite inclusions are excellent evidence for a metamorphic source area ) . |
| 19 | Lord John Russell was Foreign Secretary for a few weeks only in Aberdeen 's Coalition Government , when on 21st February , 1853 , he was replaced by George Villiers , fourth Earl of Clarendon ( 1800–70 ) who held the post until February 1858 , in both Aberdeen 's and Palmerston 's Governments . |
| 20 | It was high time for a fresh interpretation . |
| 21 | Sir John Phear , who was Chief Justice for a short time in the late 1870s , felt that many magistrates ‘ manifest as a rule want of knowledge of the practice of the Courts , of the business of their office , and of the law which they have to conform and carry out . ’ |
| 22 | The story relates that an abbot was pouring tea for a young novice monk who had recently joined the monastery to learn kung fu . |
| 23 | This is symptomatic of much more important weaknesses — Charles did not as Gale states ‘ hypothesise a glacial period in the distant past ’ as a stop gap for ignorance — James Smith of Jordanhill and others had already shown that there was good evidence for a cold period on actual fossils . |
| 24 | I think it worth pointing out that of course erm when Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister for a brief time I think Lady Young was Leader of the House of Lords in her cabinet , but apart from that there was never another women cabinet minister during her time as leader , so |
| 25 | I joined the Associate Membership scheme in the beginning and left it last year because of what I felt was gross overcharging for a pathetic members ' service . |
| 26 | Few Marxists today believe this ( and certainly Marx himself never believed anything so crude ) , but the misconception is understandable since this simplified version of Marx 's message was communist orthodoxy for a long time . |
| 27 | Finbogadóttir was re-elected President for a third four-year term in June 1988 [ see p. 36107 ] and announced in June 1991 her intention to seek election in 1992 for a further four-year term . |
| 28 | Gayoom was re-elected President for a third term in 1988 [ see p. 36350 ] . |
| 29 | The court ruled that there was sufficient evidence for a sixth charge , of complicity in the execution of seven Jewish hostages in 1944 , but that this was not a crime against humanity since it was not part of a " methodical extermination plan " , and that it therefore fell under a 20-year statute of limitations for the prosecution of " ordinary " war crimes . |