Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] for the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | RICHARD GOUGH and Trevor Steven will be examined by Rangers ' medical staff today but the injuries sustained at Fir Park last night have made them doubtful for the European tie with FC Brugge . |
| 2 | Otherwise they 're going to have another sleepless night , and we need them fresh for the next stage . ’ |
| 3 | Nor was I ready for the inconsistent treatment of the subject . |
| 4 | In particular , I wish you well for the National Conference in March to which you will be rushing immediately after our meeting with the SMT on March 8th . |
| 5 | Okay are you ready for the big ? |
| 6 | To discourage petty claims , most insurers make you liable for the first £25 . |
| 7 | £30 will seem an absurdly high sum to those of you liable for the full fee , and I would be happy to organise a pay-by-instalment system over the term , if this would make things easier . |
| 8 | South Korean President Roh Tae Woo dismissed two members of his Cabinet and the governor of North Chungchong province on Sept. 19 , after holding them responsible for the massive damage which resulted from severe flooding earlier in the month in Seoul and the central region of the country . |
| 9 | Don Cameron was Head of Talks , and I was usually in charge of his visit , which kept me busy for the few days he would be with us , twice a year . |
| 10 | He is Dieter Schmidt and his secret recipe keeps him awake for the 20-hour flights . |
| 11 | Many persons will have their own particular reasons for gratitude to him , and everyone will so warmly want to wish him well for the new place in life which awaits him back in his own native diocese of Liverpool . |
| 12 | Are they concerned for the personal welfare of individual producers ? |
| 13 | Erm , and so Freud at the beginning says that he er , he , he had a personal dislike of er Wilson , and resented him for what he had done and held him responsible for the subsequent disasters . |
| 14 | Charles has taken vows before God making him responsible for the Christian upbringing of the child . |
| 15 | Siward had merely killed his wife 's uncle , as Carl Thorbrandsson had already killed his wife 's father , and had joined thereby the bloody brethren of kinsmen whose lethal manoeuvrings had kept him busy for the twelve years he had now held the earldom . |
| 16 | But later in the afternoon the light clothing he was wearing left him ill-prepared for the chilling mist and rain that slid down the mountainsides , poignantly recorded on the damp film found in his camera . |
| 17 | Make it possible for the other person to change what they do . |
| 18 | This alternative process made it possible for the first time to obtain 1- tert -alkyl , 1-cycloalkyl , 1-aryl , 1-heteroaryl and 1-aminoquinolone and azaquinolonecarboxylic acid derivatives by combined acylation and arylation ( aracylation ) of enamines and enhydrazines with o -halo-(het)aroyl halides . |
| 19 | The course of events after 1931 clearly revealed the inadequacy of pure aspiration as the basis for a science of international politics , and made it possible for the first time to embark on serious critical and analytical thought about international problems . |
| 20 | Sufficient data stretching back to the mid-sixteenth century have now been assembled to make it possible for the first time to study short-term as well as long-term characteristics of demographic behaviour at the micro level . |
| 21 | The key point was that the bases paired , making it possible for the first time to seem how a chemical entity might be able to store and copy information . |
| 22 | Is it possible for the ordinary man in the street to become confident and competent in handling a computer system , whether it be in his office or in his home ? |
| 23 | Is it possible for the net return to capital to rise ? |
| 24 | Derek Malcolm might have a point when he says that our idea of ‘ glamour ’ has also changed — making it possible for the 90s woman in the street to look glamorous , too . |
| 25 | Self-help schemes relieve the state of the immediate necessity of providing housing and offer a cheap source of shelter , thus making it possible for the poor to survive on very low incomes ( Burgess 1978 ) . |
| 26 | A similar view of the importance of social movements is taken by Touraine ( 1973 ) in his account of the Popular Unity Government of Salvador Allende in Chile where , he argues , the activities and influence of a variety of movements within the governing coalition made it possible for the poor to express their grievances directly and continuously , instead of having them diverted ( and perhaps stifled ) in the official channels of a monolithic ruling party . |
| 27 | Nathan waited patiently for the remissions which made it possible for the ruined mind to function for a time ; he sat by the sick man , who by now was almost blind ; the paralysis was , after all , general . |
| 28 | With justice Henry V is credited not only with having understood , better than did any of his contemporaries , what were the naval problems which faced England in the early fifteenth century , but also with having done much towards the creation of a fleet of ships , some of them very large , almost ‘ prestige-type ’ vessels , which would make it possible for the English to take to sea quickly and thus try to wrest the initiative from any enemy who might be coming against them . |
| 29 | This meeting strongly condemns the regulations of the Food Controller , which favour the rich who are not in danger of being without food , make it possible for the wealthy to provide unscrupulous profiteers to defraud the nation by government sanction i.e. the fixing of prices for potatoes and other edibles , and therefore calls for Lord Devonport 's removal from office . |
| 30 | Nor is it usual for the foreign press to first travel and then write the story . |