Example sentences of "[is] [adj] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only time counts , so it 's possible for the eventual winner to triumph in Paris without having won a stage . |
| 2 | Do you think that it 's possible for the big Italian museums to privatise their subsidiary functions without an advisory body of trustees , if only to assist museum administrators who have little experience of dealing with the commercial side ? |
| 3 | Indeed , I would personally recommend that , as it is unnecessary for the full enjoyment of life , it should not be used . |
| 4 | We might therefore suppose that it is normal for the growing bough to straighten under stress by some simple non-living mechanism . |
| 5 | All MBDC meetings are sponsored and the Council is grateful for the ready support it has received from sponsors of individual meetings . |
| 6 | All MBDC meetings were sponsored and the Council is grateful for the ready support it has received from sponsors of individual meetings . |
| 7 | It is rich for the hon. Member for Dagenham to claim that he is worried about the complexity of our proposal ; that from the hon. Gentleman who suggests that there should be property valuations on four different bases and annual rolling revaluations on a banded basis — although he keeps rather quiet about it . |
| 8 | In practice it is usual for the new Emperor to be the son and heir of the old Emperor , as the Imperial family will use all its power and influence to prepare the way for its own candidate . |
| 9 | This is usual for the first week after a strike but it would not surprise me if things began to happen later in the week . |
| 10 | It is usual for the extra length in the long format to be used to extend the precision of the fraction , while the range of exponents is the same in all formats . |
| 11 | But I like Danny Bascombe , and I believe he 's right for the changing face of Barbados . |
| 12 | It is possible for the advanced stage to supervene a few months after infection , but it would normally take ten or fifteen years to develop . |
| 13 | We lack the information necessary to relate it with confidence to specific plate tectonic events , as is possible for the Cretaceous , but the Cambrian sea-level rise might well have been a consequence of opening of the Iapetus Ocean , with the growth of a spreading ridge ( Anderton , 1980 , 1982 ) . |
| 14 | Here it is possible for the jaded adult reader to treat the sentence passively , particularly as he or she can deal in generalizations ( ‘ cat ’ , ‘ mat ’ ) . |
| 15 | It is possible for the other European Community partners to over-rule France and they should do that . |
| 16 | There is a banker paying out money , and it is possible for the two players to link arms and laugh all the way to the bank . |
| 17 | The fourth attribute demanded by George Corner , that of understanding , is possible for the first time in the history of civilization ; but it is a possibility which so far is available to only a small minority of specialists . |
| 18 | Having recognized that form is a reflection of the underlying energy pattern and that it interacts with it , it is possible for the best sites to be found . |
| 19 | This , combined with the enormous quantity of information available about the makers and patrons of French eighteenth-century furniture , help to build up a much more complete picture than is possible for the earlier pieces . |
| 20 | When , it is possible for the horizontal concentration variations to be effectively the same as the vertical ones whilst horizontal temperature variations are much reduced from the vertical . |
| 21 | To avoid having both primary and secondary media items mounted simultaneously , it is possible for the offline manager to instruct LIFESPAN not to allow this . |
| 22 | It is possible for the offline operator to indicate this at the operator terminal when asked to mount a media item on the unit , and no further requests will be made of that unit during that particular offline run . |
| 23 | However , it is possible for the subsidiary company to pay up a dividend , thus generating its own ACT , which is available for carry back . |
| 24 | Macaulay Culkin is a 12-year-old , 4ft 6in licence to print money and Home Alone 2 : Lost In New York is set to pull in more folding bills than it is possible for the human mind to contemplate . |
| 25 | hence a larger sample is possible for the same expenditure |
| 26 | Indeed … it is possible for the original instinctual representative to be split in two , one part undergoing repression , while the remainder , Precisely on account of this intimate connection , undergoes idealization ( xi . |
| 27 | When the ‘ victim ’ is , say , a government agency such as the Inland Revenue ( UK ) or Medicare ( US ) , or another vast transnational organization , or when it is millions of individuals deprived of trivial amounts of property , or when whole countries or even continents are ‘ victimized ’ as in the case of bribery and corruption of Third World governments or legal officials , or the exportation of products whose consumption is only really safe in a western cultural environment ( Chetley 1979 ) , then it is possible for the corporate official to convince himself that there is no real person suffering , and therefore there is no real criminal victim . |
| 28 | Under some conditions the determination of a strip number is very sensitive to movement of the test card , and it is possible for the announced approximate edge to lie in either of the two edge strips on either side . |
| 29 | It is unsuitable for the working boy . |
| 30 | I do not think that it is right for the hon. Lady to knock the national health service in that way . |