Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Dying 's a hard enough thought for old men , and terrible past bearing , maybe , for a boy . |
| 32 | Their inspectors merely called for visual inspections and dye penetrant checks , as opposed to the ultrasonic testing called for in the UK . |
| 33 | Being a Twenty-fourther obviously called for high physical stamina , for the group showed no signs of slacking . |
| 34 | From one of these , situated within half a mile of the proposed Chirbury Station , it is stated that 10,000 tons are annually raised for local requirements , and that easy and cheap means of transit , such has the railway would supply , are only required to bring it into extensive use . |
| 35 | Where was that traditional British reserve only abandoned for cloying camaraderie under the influence of injuriously vast quantities of alcohol ? |
| 36 | This was especially marked for long chain n6 polyunsaturated fatty acids in ulcerative colitis and Crohn 's disease . |
| 37 | Electoral democracy produces a ready-made machine for minority groups to fight effectively for a share of central resources , once they learn to act as a group and are sufficiently concentrated for electoral purposes . |
| 38 | There 's more of the same in the West Country where North Wheddon Farm ( Tel : 064 384 1224 ) near Minehead offers centre based holidays for the experienced , featuring the burnished hills of Exmoor , highly suited for exciting riding . |
| 39 | They usually disappointed everyone by recalling that he was remarkable for his unremarkableness , just another kid on the block ; not a hero , not a superstar at sports , not especially remembered for outstanding feats of school bravado nor had he made any particular impression on the girls . |
| 40 | Three such smoothies recently opened the doors of their brand-new consultancy , Frew Dale Macmaster , in London 's Harley Street , better known for medical doctors than image surgeons . |
| 41 | Our members wanted it and in many industries it makes sense , but the bigger task , the main event , is to see whether by a more formal relationship , a more formal partnership , we can build a union which is better than the T & G , better than the G M B and better suited for modern conditions than any trade union so far created in Britain . |
| 42 | Devices like this poop scoop are better suited for domestic use . |
| 43 | One thing the microfloppies have in common is the fact that they are all under 10 cm in diameter , making them better suited for briefcase-size computers than the existing 5¼-inch ( 12–5 cm ) and 8-inch ( 20 cm ) diameter floppy discs . |
| 44 | In London representatives of the Belgian , Dutch and Norwegian governments-in-exile all hoped for British leadership of a post-war alliance system , and many British officials and ministers came to believe that a ‘ western bloc ’ could both control Germany in future and bolster British standing in the world vis-à-vis America and Russia . |
| 45 | While the objections to this point of view are obvious — we can be led into all manner of belief by wishful thinking — it coincided with the beginnings of a general desire to re-open the discussion which Locke had apparently concluded for good and all . |
| 46 | His pen-and-ink drawings provided Minton with unrelieved amusement , as Lyttelton has recalled : Humphrey Lyttelton 's presence at Camberwell helped make it a centre for the beginnings of ‘ trad ’ , a jazz revival which replaced ‘ the polite and effete noise which had hitherto passed for genuine jazz ’ with a new vitality and energy . |
| 47 | Conflicts of interest on the other hand ‘ are almost entirely left for civil sanctions ’ . |
| 48 | On top of these efforts , which also include an EV-6 eventually , DEC is also working on a low-cost LCA 21066 chip to rival Sun 's Tsunami and HP 's Hummingbird , apparently meant for high-volume NT systems . |
| 49 | MAX B HARLOW graduated from Stanford University in 1927 and during the next ten years or so worked for various aircraft manufacturers , including Thaden , Bach , Waldo Waterman , Allan Lockheed , Bert Kinner , Northrop and Douglas , where he was involved in stress analysis for the DC-2 . |
| 50 | Jackson have long stood for high quality American instruments , with their Japanese- and Korean-made Charvel counterparts sitting at the other end of the corporate see-saw . |
| 51 | For other years estimates were made by linear interpolation , a proportionate adjustment being made if the total of the estimates so obtained for individual age groups did not agree with the independent estimate from the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys for all ages taken together . |
| 52 | The fascination of this book is in its clear-sighted debunking of the myths which many have fondly mistaken for historical truth : that Columbus was really aiming for Asia , that he and his sailors thought the world was flat , that Queen Isabella pawned her jewels to finance his trips and came down with her husband to wave him off from the docks , or even ( a fondly-cherished delusion ) that these were journeys of discovery rather than intentional acquisition and expansion of the Spanish empire . |
| 53 | Accommodation at the centre is provided in five self-contained Scandinavian-style log cabins , especially constructed for disabled youngsters . |
| 54 | The terrors of the workhouse were thus extended beyond the portals of death ; for the least favoured section of the population there waited the ultimate humiliation of dissection by medical students , a fate hitherto reserved for convicted murderers . |
| 55 | I hope that the changes in the Somerset Levels will do a great deal to ensure that the area is much improved for wading birds . |
| 56 | Both holes and pockets can be cut in wood or plasterboard without having to drill a starting hole : but it 's only advised for experienced users . |
| 57 | It is also widely sought for cytomegalic virus disease . |
| 58 | With Kristiansen eager to renew her marathon career at Boston , they have since reapplied for American visas . |
| 59 | But if you accept that carbon dioxide is a much More insidious threat and nuclear power is the one major supplier of energy that does not produce it , the issue begins to turn not so much on the dangerous unacceptibility of reactors but on how you regulate and make them safe and ensure that their fuel is not diverted for military purposes . |
| 60 | The IAEA wants to be there to check whether fuel rods have been removed in the past , and to ensure that the spent fuel is not diverted for military purposes . |