Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were solid leather and weighed so much that , not surprisingly , we were allowed only a further 9lb each to include all essentials for the next six days and five nights . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , staff at the Credit Card Centre paid £2 each to wear casual clothing for work . |
| 3 | Rather it is usual to claim objective virtues for the existing system which would be lost by a change from it . |
| 4 | If these figures turned out to be right , it would be possible to compensate western farmers for their losses in full , greatly improve Eastern Europe 's hard-currency earnings , and still leave EC taxpayers and consumers £1.5 billion a year better off . |
| 5 | For technical reasons it was not always possible to obtain good results for the three probes on tissue from the same patient . |
| 6 | And with ‘ perfumed strips ’ now impregnated into the pages of so many magazines , it 's possible to try new scents for a single day without venturing further than your friendly newsagent . |
| 7 | Style is such a complicated phenomenon " that it would be impractical to demand hard evidence for every observation made . |
| 8 | In each of these examples , however , the nuance is too fugitive to provide uncontroversial basis for discussion . |
| 9 | However , Richard Baxter was hesitant to accept this offer for other reasons also . |
| 10 | If the absolute size of certain selected issues can be established by counting their dies , it is possible to extrapolate similar values for other issues by comparing the representation of counted and uncounted issues in hoards . |
| 11 | In other words if we " bake the biggest cake " it should be possible to provide greater shares for all . |
| 12 | It is not possible to provide this ordering for users of ORACLE RDBMS . |
| 13 | It is also possible to find explicit expressions for the bulk compliance B(t) and the shear compliance J(t) . |
| 14 | They need to know that it is possible to find alternative accommodation for the individual or themselves . |
| 15 | Gerry Skelton , Borders district secretary of the TGWU , said that when the benefits agencies had mistakenly paid out extra money to claimants they had not been prepared to wait four years for the cash to be handed back . |
| 16 | It is , though , quite wrong to persecute one man for using the law to his advantage . ’ |
| 17 | Who in this room would be willing to work full time for the equivalent of benefit plus ten pounds ? |
| 18 | This graph demonstrates that , providing that we are careful to establish safe intervals for the various parameters , we can find a normalised measure which is remarkably linear with respect to true area . |
| 19 | Most grammar schools were single sex ; mixed schools were usually provided only where the sparseness of the population made it impracticable to provide separate schools for boys and girls . |
| 20 | Finally , however , it has to be conceded that it is one thing to articulate a right of tax-diversion or participation in policy-making , and quite another to secure legal recognition for such a right . |
| 21 | I know in south Oxfordshire the landowners would be only too willing to provide odd sites for odd romanies . |
| 22 | They are usually also very willing to create special opportunities for individuals to become accustomed to new experiences such as going swimming , to help them become familiar with an unknown and perhaps daunting routine before ‘ plunging in ’ with the general public . |
| 23 | Budgets should be sufficiently detailed to set clear targets for the managers responsible for carrying them out , but should not be so complex that they defeat their purpose of providing planning and control aids at the operating levels of the enterprise ; |
| 24 | Only 20 per cent , however , were willing to assume any responsibility for payment of teachers ' salaries . |
| 25 | And the Minister was prepared to predict great things for the candidate should he win . |
| 26 | However , where a business is involved in a large number of contracts , possibly of low individual value , with a large number of different customers , it will often be impracticable to negotiate individual terms for each individual transaction ; indeed , one of the reasons for using standard terms is to minimise transaction costs by avoiding the need for individual negotiation . |
| 27 | Detectives are horrified the men are prepared to use such violence for a comparatively small sum . |
| 28 | Detectives are horrified the men are prepared to use such violence for a comparatively small sum . |
| 29 | Huang Tao , described by Radio Pakistan as the Chinese Petroleum Minister , visiting Islamabad to participate in the International Petroleum Seminar on Nov. 22-24 , stated that China was prepared to give substantial aid for the development of Pakistan 's petroleum industry . |
| 30 | But the SFA have made it clear they are not prepared to give complete clearance for all the games to be shown in Scotland . |