Example sentences of "[be] [adj] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your clothes wo n't be dry for a while yet ; ca n't you at least meet me halfway ? ’ |
| 2 | Curle stepped up and placed the penalty beyond Schmeichel and suddenly United looked as though they would be grateful for a point from a game they should have controlled — and won . |
| 3 | If you have no one to visit you , then you can tell the nurse that you would be grateful for a hospital visitor . |
| 4 | Well , I suppose it 's better than nothing , but I 'd be grateful for a month or two 's notice when you do decide to go . |
| 5 | As I am unable to call to discuss these with you in person during bank opening hours I should be grateful for a reply in writing which I can present to the Council at their next meeting on 2 April 1992 . |
| 6 | The Scat , Scatophagus argus , is adaptable to all water types , but would be unsuitable for a system such as you suggest , for they prefer hard , neutral , to strongly alkaline water . |
| 7 | The area would also be unsuitable for a business park , because it is only 1.8 hectares in size and the necessary development would be uneconomic , considering the amount of traffic that would have to be accommodated . |
| 8 | It would certainly be possible for a jackdaw to get in through any of the eight window openings , but then I thought , No . |
| 9 | This is especially true for cursive handwriting where a number of alternative segmentations may be possible for a word . |
| 10 | In theory , with a certain knowledge of future events and a perfect capital market , it should be possible for a firm to borrow sufficient funds to finance all those projects that meet this acceptance criterion . |
| 11 | It will be possible for a researcher to know , for example , that there is a 99 per cent probability that the sample estimate falls within 3 per cent of the real value of the total population . |
| 12 | This paragraph seems to indicate that it may be possible for a person who has received information in confidence which he could have obtained through other sources to relieve himself of the 'special disability " under which he is otherwise placed by going to those sources . |
| 13 | However , it may still be possible for a person who signs a document after a misrepresentation of its effect by an agent of the other party to argue that , regardless of authority , the other party is vicariously responsible for the agent 's misrepresentation , and that the misrepresentation prevents reliance on the signed document . |
| 14 | As it will not be possible for a claimant to satisfy the DOE/DHSS registration requirements in these circumstances , the claimant must first provide us with written substantiation from the DOE that the claimant is now attending an ETS . |
| 15 | There are increasing demands that the central institutions of the EEC should be reduced to a minimal role , that Member States should be allowed to integrate only so far as they wish , and that it should be possible for a country to remain within a European free-trade zone , but outside a politically united federation — as Norway , Iceland and the other Efta states have done since the establishment of the EEA . |
| 16 | Although this altruistic caring for other cats ' kittens is abnormal for many felines , it does show how , under freak conditions of extreme crowding , it might be possible for a group of wild cats to start behaving like a pride of lions . |
| 17 | So it might be possible for a 50-year-old with a heart condition to be acting reasonably if he turned down a job involving more stress and daily travel , whereas a 30-year-old executive with no personal problems who rejected the same offer might forfeit his claim to statutory redundancy pay . |
| 18 | Of course , it should be possible for a student who has ‘ failed ’ at one learning task to compensate by his/her success on another task . |
| 19 | However , it may be possible for a tenant to preserve his rights where the break-clause is exercised by means of a section 26 request . |
| 20 | It may , however , be possible for a plaintiff to achieve the desired result by making a concurrent application for a similar order in the courts of the relevant foreign country , though the availability of such orders will obviously depend upon the local law . |
| 21 | Interviewees sometimes think that when an interviewer says to them , ‘ Do you have any questions you would like to ask me ? ’ this is an opportunity to ask how long the holidays are and how soon you would be due for a pay rise . |
| 22 | When you retire , you may be due for a tax rebate . |
| 23 | Art is , and always was , the only point — a notion so old fashioned in today 's hyperventilated art world that it just might , if we are lucky , be due for a comeback . |
| 24 | Although it is undoubtedly the case that farm animals do suffer from many of the horrors of intensive husbandry ( it can not be pleasant for a pig to be eaten alive ) there are serious questions to be asked about the extent and nature of the alleged suffering . |
| 25 | ‘ Do you think it would be sensible for a woman to go at that time of night into the house of an unmarried man ? ’ she asked . |
| 26 | You wo n't get a cup of tea , although you might be OK for a Garibaldi if there happens to be one lying around , but you 'll quickly be strapped into the beige and orange sofa , and invited to ‘ Convince us why we should vote for your lot . |
| 27 | A wrist that 's going to be painful for a while , but it will heal . |
| 28 | I bet you 're thinking what odd times ferried living through , how behaviour can be different for a while , how I 'm a little brash , and very ill-advised , but possibly forgivable . ’ |
| 29 | But one happened to be free for a couple of hours along with the picture editor who cut Nicola 's last report . |
| 30 | Loretta would arrive at her friend 's house in Woodstock Road in time for supper , and the whole evening would be free for a chat . |