Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] for the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Northanger Abbey is only tolerable because it has been modernized ; like Sir John Soane , Jane Austen clearly feels that survivals of medieval ecclesiastical architecture are ‘ little calculated for the common habits of life ’ . |
| 2 | In such a climate , the ‘ If ’ poem seems a little outdated for the modern manager . |
| 3 | Do you think that erm any of the town 's been badly designed for the old people ? |
| 4 | Well I do n't se I do n't think that it has been badly designed for the old people , I think the object of building the town as it has been built is to integrate the erm the old people with the young , perhaps the young people resent that but I think we have got to have a mixed community in as much as we have got to be aware that old people need attention in as much as they need companionship and if they are not integrated with the community they are going to be I really se , just left out on their own which in lots of cases there are very , very many lonely people , old people but if they are put within the community I think the community will look after them , in as much as giving them companionship whether the people , some people resent it or not , I do n't know , but I do think that they should not be segregated . |
| 5 | The prospect of a radical overhaul of US banking legislation was confirmed on Feb. 5 when the US Treasury announced proposals including the abolition of two laws dating from the 1930s which were widely blamed for the fragmented character of US banking . |
| 6 | Dr. Tolba , widely respected for the critical role played by UNIP in achieving the Montreal Protocol on ozone depletion , is looking forward to the London Conference on Climate next June aimed at toughening up the Montreal guidelines . |
| 7 | From the seven candidates eventually interviewed for the vacant headmastership , Mr. Alfred Edward Daniels was appointed . |
| 8 | Running like this , with the mad south-west wind behind her , gave her a glorious sense of freedom , for her exercise had been terribly limited for the past five weeks . |
| 9 | Bureaux in the main are not purpose-built and even if they have been especially partitioned for the purpose-built and even if usually enough total space to consider the ergonomics of advice work . |
| 10 | The tall house on Thrush Green had been but sparsely furnished for the young couple had great aspirations but little money , and most of the furniture was solid Victorian stuff given by their parents . |
| 11 | Only inhabited for the past two hundred years , the unique flora and fauna of these delightfully unsophisticated island have been allowed to evolve undisturbed over the past 600 million years , yielding a unique heritage of birds and blooms encompassing the spectrum 's every colour . |
| 12 | Many former CD voters apparently voted for the Northern League , which — with the Lombardy League as its core — won 17 per cent in the north of Italy . |
| 13 | Trips to the reservoirs and dams can be arranged and are highly recommended for the breathtaking views of the Kitzsteinhorn , Gross Glockner and Steinenes Meer . |
| 14 | The new ‘ Acrylix ’ brush has been especially designed for the acrylic painter to give both freedom and precision in use . |
| 15 | When tonight those Tory MPs have all voted for the Prime Minister 's motion — for different and often conflicting reasons — the Prime Minister will claim that his motion has given him a mandate for Maastricht , when he stands for nothing at all . |
| 16 | The consolation for him and for Britain is that he has been far better prepared for the emotional pressures of his destiny than ever his father was . |
| 17 | That too is a problem , but I must say that we were much better prepared for the Inter-Continental Cup than a couple of other tournaments — that only makes our failure to qualify more disappointing . |
| 18 | He was obviously destined for the professional ranks and as I watched him I could see why . |
| 19 | first the base budget , an this and return to give increase the expenditure is the five million pounds or so needed for the increased number of pupils . |
| 20 | A black feather boa , perhaps bought for the Black Ascot , curved lavishly round to cancel any suggestion of nakedness . |
| 21 | He joins his sister Michelle , and Andrea Glover all bound for the European Youth Championships in Slovania , in the RUC Community relation cadet player award short list . |
| 22 | Elsecar is a mining village south of Barnsley , and has some interesting buildings of the nineteenth century around the former iron works , but it is especially noted for the unique pumping engine preserved by the National Coal Board . |
| 23 | This is something we have all known for the past few months . |
| 24 | Country weavers and knitters were to become better remembered for the long sad days of their early nineteenth-century decline , but they had happier days when they consumed the products made by their fellow artisans in Burslem , Sheffield and Birmingham . |
| 25 | In what ways are the temperatures and the rainfall better suited for the successful growth of grass rather than for cash crops of wheat ? |
| 26 | Yet talk to any established composer nowadays , and the likelihood is that he or she is about to be embroiled in some kind of operatic project , perhaps planned for the middle-distant future ( timescales are necessarily generous for opera ) but nevertheless fully engaged in the kind of musical thinking that three decades ago would have beyond the wildest dreams for all but the most exclusive , established few — Benjamin Britten and Tippett in Britain , Hans Werner Henze on the Continent . |
| 27 | Their vacant seats would be taken up , with effect from Jan. 1 , 1991 , by Austria , Belgium , Ecuador , India and Zimbabwe , all elected for the standard two-year term by the General Assembly when its 45th session ( opened on Sept. 18 — see pp. 37731-32 ) ended its general debate on Nov. 1 . |
| 28 | Data was only recorded for the near contract , excluding the delivery month , because volume was low in the deferred contracts and in the near contract during the delivery month . |
| 29 | The new legislation made it possible for all South Africans to purchase freehold tenure to the 87 per cent of South Africa 's land hitherto reserved for the white minority , although it placed no obligation on white owners to sell , and commentators pointed out that few blacks had the means to buy . |
| 30 | It is positively helpful if his poems are written out as prose ( as they actually often are in the case of those lyrics embedded in prose treatises as opposed to independent lyrics ) because they are then naturally read for the speaking voice and not with any expectation of the regularity roused by the sight of poetic form . |