Example sentences of "[adj] for an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | London Transport held very strong views in favour of standardization , so when in 1936 , the ex-Croydon cars were due for an annual overhaul and relicensing , they were withdrawn one at a time and replaced by E/1 Class cars between October 1936 and January 1937 . |
| 2 | In the light of recent scares about pesticide residues in food , nitrates in drinking water , and food poisoning in eggs , cheese and other foods , it seems that agricultural standards are due for an urgent review . |
| 3 | The Human League 's snappy pop songs , drum machines and synthesisers were the embodiment of ‘ electro-pop ’ , the new teenage esperanto ; while Collins ' sleek , craftsmanlike records were the perfect palliative for an older generation of listeners , turned off by punk rock , whose interest in pop music would be rekindled by the coming phenomenon of the compact disc . |
| 4 | Lord Ackner felt that the route did not cease to be available simply because it was not possible for an unaccompanied child to walk it without danger . |
| 5 | I am sure it must be possible for an adolescent girl to reconcile the male and the female sets of anxieties . |
| 6 | Each unit represents a wide range of investments , spreading the risk to an extent that 's normally not possible for an individual investor . |
| 7 | The question is whether it was possible for an ancient Athenian to possess a social representation in this sense , or whether we have to wait until the modern age for social representations to appear . |
| 8 | In Newton 's time it was possible for an educated person to have a grasp of the whole of human knowledge , at least in outline . |
| 9 | The lowest , most general , and most unambiguously useful level consists in the employment of a computer to perform a humdrum task in less time than would be possible for an unaided human : the search through a text for a quotation , the determination of a word frequency , the construction and analysis of a contingency table , the classification of iconic data . |
| 10 | How is it possible for an external symbol , as well as one in the internal representational medium of the creature 's mind , to be employed by one animal and perceived by another as a request for a specific tool ? |
| 11 | At the Court of Wards the Tooke family were making the office of auditor hereditary in the last years of Elizabeth , but it was still possible for an active reformer like John Hare to be appointed Clerk ; inexperienced men began to be appointed to offices in this court under James . |
| 12 | In Britain it is possible for an educational institution to obtain a licence to record a very limited range of programmes categorised as educational . |
| 13 | And see whether or not there is basis for an agreement on that because if it is possible to get an agreement on that it is infinitely easier to persuade the government that regulations have to be written which cover all of these issues and cover all of the sectors and that therefore makes it easier to create a situation in which it is not possible for an independent company that wish to ignore the good practice guidelines to simply go ahead and do so . |
| 14 | Bearing in mind the figures and the fact that French farmers regularly burn lorry loads of English lamb and Italian grapes with complete impunity and that it is not possible for an English lorry firm to go to Germany and to load up with goods to bring back to the United Kingdom , should not the European Community try to walk before it tries to run ? |
| 15 | The audio connections are made in a similar way to that used for an audio dub , except that the source-machine is now a camcorder ( or a VCR ) . |
| 16 | A LORRY driver who felt sorry for an unwanted calf stole animal feed to keep it alive . |
| 17 | If the lavatory is too low for an elderly person , a raised polypropylene toilet seat which fits over it , but is easy to remove and to wash , can be very useful , and a chromium-plated hand-grip fixed very securely to the wall at the side of the lavatory can also be helpful . |
| 18 | One looks in vain for an alternative vision of the State 's role in relation to the arts . |
| 19 | Kenneth Andrew Sanderson , of Wallace Avenue , Huyton , was sentenced in January 1991 after a Southampton Crown Court jury found him guilty of the two robberies for each of which he received seven years , concurrent ; he got six months concurrent for an admitted burglary . |
| 20 | You could n't deny that the house was as sense-assaultingly beautiful as it was conceivable for an Umbrian villa to be . |
| 21 | Category three saw Jasper Sharpe outreach everyone to gain 127 points and he looks favourite for an overall winner ; Gareth Parry came second and Simon Scully was third . |
| 22 | ‘ You mean , I talk funny for an ex-bog-trotter slum-kid ? ’ |
| 23 | The further you go into this subculture , the more you begin to realise that Bud Hopkins is in fact quite restrained for an American ufologist . |
| 24 | First , large projects can be very risky for an individual company . |
| 25 | Most of the passengers were either up on deck to watch the ship arrive or they 'll be frantically getting organised for an early breakfast so that they can get ashore . ’ |
| 26 | The quality of output from a page printer is more than adequate for an instant print shop to use as the master for a bulk run either through a copier or proper printing . |
| 27 | Consequently its Laplace transform is or The unit impulse function is infinite for an infinitesimal time as indicated in figure 11.5(d) and its integral over all time is unity . |
| 28 | The role of Treasurer over the years has grown from overseeing simple book-keeping to an extensive involvement and the contributions of Leslie Wise , A.J. Chapman , Albert ( Bert ) Ford and currently Jim Grey , have been valuable indeed and it is not surprising that Arthur Chapman felt the work was too demanding for an Honorary Treasurer , although what each does might vary depending on what bias the secretary brings to his post . |
| 29 | But the house is too overcrowded for an extra person . |
| 30 | The application does nothing to retain the existing trees on the site , it was a , it is , a mature garden with some mature trees , and all those trees are to be removed , it certainly does n't do anything to retain the rural character of the na of the village , and certainly does n't enhance the character of the adjoining small er rural cottages , i in fact it would be , it could be argued that it damages the rural environment , because the development is such that it is more suited for an urban development , almost a city centre , because the comment has been made that there is only about a metre between the dwellings and indeed there is only a metre between the dwellings and the adjoining boundaries , surely there is a need for screening , it is in a in a very very prominent position , it can be seen clearly as you enter the village from the Farnsfield area , the present proposal does n't provide sufficient room for screening , and and like the screen which is adjacent to this building , which are set well back from the road , and provide an opportunity for screening the single access to the site and the fact that the frontage to these two properties is completely taken up with garaging and with vehicle access does n't even provide an opportunity to screen . |