Example sentences of "are [adj] [adv] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The costs are low enough for the schemes to be applied to whole towns … it is estimated that the measures will be amortized within three to six years on account of saved accident costs . ’ |
| 2 | If , however , the company or the chargee fails to do so the consequences are grave indeed for the chargee ; in effect , he loses his security . |
| 3 | Some puppets are simple enough for the children to improvise for themselves once the teacher has introduced the idea . |
| 4 | Having been soaked , the cuticles are soft enough for the manicurist , using an orange stick , to gently push them back . |
| 5 | For a number of reasons they normally fail to reproduce , and are present only for the lifetime of the individual(s) . |
| 6 | The predictions of the effective theory of fluid mechanics are not exact — one only has to listen to the weather forecast to realize that — but they are good enough for the design of ships or oil pipelines . |
| 7 | I am not arguing that moral rights get their sole authority from contiguous laws , although they can , but rather that the existence of such laws , having been passed in a deliberative and ultimately democratic manner and being constantly under test by the legislature , is evidence that these types of transaction are important enough for the maintenance of civilised life as to require such formal recognition . |
| 8 | Comparable figures are available only for the years 1984 and 1988 . |
| 9 | The rewards are worthwhile both for the health of the population and for the environment . |
| 10 | Remember that what your reader wants is not all the facts that a real-life situation would involve but only what I call the " fiction-facts ' , those pieces of information that are necessary not for the situation in the real world you might be describing but for the story you are telling . |