Example sentences of "[adj] for the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The North Sea is obviously so shaped that very strong northerly winds can cause a piling up of water in the southern part of the sea , either because the escape route through the Straits of Dover is narrow , or because it is quite possible for the winds in the North Sea to be predominantly northerly while the winds in the English Channel are predominantly westerly . |
| 2 | There would be no point in designing software to control access to the video disc , unless suitable interfaces are also available to make it possible for the computer in the system to communicate with the video disc player and control its operation . |
| 3 | A text frequently has a much wider variety of interpretations imposed upon it by analysts studying it at their leisure , than would ever have been possible for the participants in the communicative interaction which gives rise to the ‘ text ’ . |
| 4 | She could almost feel sorry for him , the way that everybody felt sorry for the coyote in the Roadrunner cartoons ; so singleminded , and with a lack of perspective that was spectacular . |
| 5 | ‘ I felt sorry for the people in the awful rain . |
| 6 | When they also understand that housing costs play a proportionately lower part in pensioners ' expenditure in England than in the rest of Europe , they may be grateful for the way in which we have promoted home ownership . |
| 7 | Completely unaccustomed to the hot , humid air — so wet and steamy that it was almost impossible to breathe properly — she 'd been deeply grateful for the air-conditioning in the apartment which — when it was working properly ! — had kept them all relatively cool . |
| 8 | They would go back to Paris to the beautiful house , but she would never stop being grateful for the farm in the woods , because here she had found her father and here she had found Alain . |
| 9 | These degrees are generally of 21–24 months ' duration by full-time study , 36 months full-time for the MPhil in Clinical Psychology . |
| 10 | In considering a government summary table , it must first be recognized that the raw data were probably collected with no specific use in mind and therefore , almost inevitably , too much detail is given or the format is unsuitable for the purpose in hand . |
| 11 | The need to build an adequate base is not only relevant to the pioneer missionary situation , but also to many run-down , inner city locations — only here the problems are even greater because of a history of decline , premises which are impossible to maintain in good order and totally unsuitable for the task in hand , and demands made upon inadequate resources by the needy people in the community and overstretched social services trying to meet their needs . |
| 12 | If you are silly enough to categorize all your faults for the interviewer you will surely already have shown yourself as unsuitable for the job in many other ways . |
| 13 | Measuring applause does not reveal that the movie was memorable for the woman in the third row because the building on screen reminded her of where she went to school and all those childhood memories came flooding back intercut with the film while the auditorium gently shook as an underground train passed beneath and cigarette ash fluttered down from the balcony in the projector beam . |
| 14 | Buxtehude , which is studied first , is most interesting for the way in which an attempt has been made to treat a large area of a small town , ranging from centre to suburb . |
| 15 | Hughes ' cityscape is as exciting for the children in her books as the bluebell woods and dingle dells of 50 years ago , and this optimism may be the greatest gift a modern writer can give young readers . |
| 16 | However elaborate ( indeed , contrived ) this theorizing may be , it is still not wholly adequate for the task in hand . |
| 17 | Our regular ‘ In Conversation ’ interviews with many of today 's most successful artists have proved popular for the way in which they reveal the ideas and working methods of professional artists . |
| 18 | The test is a series of movements in walk , trot and canter and you get marked for the movements in the test . |
| 19 | Bootle and Oxton players are unavailable for the match in which Liverpool 's Andy McDowell comes in for Barry Metcalf who has been picked for the Wales side against Dorset . |
| 20 | The nineteenth century witnessed too a growing Asian presence in Britain , developing from earlier groups of servants , sailors and traders , and several Asians were also prominent in British politics , the most famous being Bombay-born Dadabhai Naoroji who , apart from championing the Indian cause in London , also entered the House of Commons after winning Finsbury Central for the Liberals in 1892 and supported women 's suffrage , trade union rights and Home Rule for Ireland ( Visram , 1986 , pp. 78–92 ) . |
| 21 | ‘ It would also be almost impossible for the plaintiff in a civil action to get an anonymity order for himself , as the company has in the Goodwin case . ’ |
| 22 | If , over the years , the balance of probabilities has shifted so that balances previously included as creditors now seem unlikely ever to be paid , it would be appropriate for the balances in question to be removed from creditors , with the corresponding credit in either profit and loss account or , if the sums are material and the adjustment arises from a fundamental error , the profit and loss reserves in the balance sheet . |
| 23 | An individual machinist might be tempted to choose feeds and speeds that were either faster or slower than those appropriate for the job in hand . |
| 24 | It is for a local authority to decide the mix of family centres which is appropriate for the children in its area . |
| 25 | He also remembered times when he himself was so hungry that he could n't stand straight for the cramps in his stomach . |
| 26 | She had never heard the whole story , but apparently some of his ideas were considered a little too daring for the traditionalists in Tokyo , and he found the rug pulled from under him . |
| 27 | fit for the purpose in the general sense , it also means fit for the purpose in any particular sense you had made known to the shop . |
| 28 | fit for the purpose in the general sense , it also means fit for the purpose in any particular sense you had made known to the shop . |
| 29 | Already treated to Taxi , then Hill Street Blues , then Cheers , then Golden Girls , even the most insatiable Yankophile was unprepared for the shot in the comedic ass that was Roseanne . |
| 30 | Combe Bank could be regarded as an attempt to reduce the four-corner-towered form of , for example , Lord Burlington 's Tottenham Park to the scale of a villa ; at Whitton Place he appears to have been one of the first Palladian architects to employ the three-sided bay-window motif ; and his stable block at Althorp , Northamptonshire ( 1732–3 ) , with its portico derived from St Paul Covent Garden is exceptional for the time in its exploitation of the bold simplicity of the Tuscan order . |