Example sentences of "[be] [adv] suit to the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Far from possessing the tact and sensitivity required to construct a harmonious relationship with the English church and restore Mary 's subjects ' confidence in the papacy , Paul was a rigid , inflexible pontiff who could hardly have been less suited to the task of cementing the reunion of England and Rome .
2 In this sense , the dictionary and its definitions are less suited to the recognition of domains that are more abstract or esoteric .
3 It is basically an enabling measure to allow more discretion to local authorities to take measures , within a light regulatory framework , so that roads are more suited to the traffic using them , bearing in mind other road users , such as pedestrians and cyclists , and local people in villages and constituencies like that of my hon. Friend the Member for Shrewsbury and Atcham ( Mr. Conway ) .
4 The growth and international expansion of the hotel and catering industry has been phenomenal during the past decade , ensuring a constant demand for trained and skilled staff and providing ample opportunity for those who are temperamentally suited to the industry .
5 For example in the Organon 5th edition ( 1833 ) §276 : ‘ A medicine , even though it may be homœopathically suited to the case , does harm in every dose that is too large , the more harm the larger the dose , and by the magnitude of the dose it does more harm the greater its homœopathicity and the higher the potency selected . ’
6 They are particularly suited to the assessment of Outcomes concerned with analysis , synthesis and evaluation .
7 Both experiential learning and student-centred learning approaches are particularly suited to the adult learner .
8 It seems that limited settings or subjects are particularly suited to the crime short story .
9 APL involves the accreditation of competence ; the new SCOTVEC Advanced Courses , which are written in competence terms , are well suited to the provision of an APL service .
10 In this regard , it should be noted that the Arrangements document points teachers in the direction of methods of teaching which are well suited to the creation of such an environment .
11 Johnson 's qualities of superbly robust commonsense , coupled with the differentiation of minute subtleties to be expected of the lexicographer , are well suited to the investigator of crime .
12 What are the advantages of implementing the control unit of a processor by microprogramming , Wilkes ( 1951 ) introduced the concept as a means by which the design and implementation of a control unit could be carried out in a Systematic and logical manner ; this advantage is a Particularly valuable one today , when uniform electronic layouts are well suited to the technology of LSI .
13 Apart from ERA 's determination to find and fund a long term solution to the dampness problem and to prove that their living conditions were more suited to the health of the fungus families than human families , they were equally determined to get Public Health on the political agenda and to dispel the myth that smoking , diet and lack of exercise were solely responsible for Glasgow 's award winning heart disease record .
14 ( Gladstone was not the only public figure to join the chorus about women 's " nimble fingers " being particularly suited to the trade ; " and fifty years earlier , Napoleon on being shown round a printing office had growled that it was " women 's work " . )
15 Their application to such industries as spinning and weaving in seventeenth and eighteenth centuries often resulted in inventions suited to the circumstances of petty producers : The new machines required little capital and a family-sized labor force , and hence were well suited to the perpetuation of cottage industry .
16 They were eminently suited to the work and knew their ship and its equipment well enough to keep things going which also suited the administration at Headquarters .
17 Britain , for example , has been left with political institutions which were ideally suited to the protection of private property and enterprise and which could cope with limited government and restricted public power in which the executive was dominant .
18 At the same time we are faced with the dilemma that these theories appear to be mutually exclusive : does this mean that the peace movement should take a cynical ‘ supermarket ’ attitude to attempts to theorise law and take from the shelves whatever theoretical package is best suited to the purpose ?
19 This is actually the simplest form of meditation and is best suited to the beginner .
20 In considering which approach is to be used in the design-based process , it is necessary to take into account which structure is best suited to the storage , modification and retrieval operations to be evaluated and their frequency of use .
21 This approach is best suited to the study of small to moderate amounts of data but its merits have probably been exaggerated since even skilled statisticians need minutes rather than seconds to respond sensibly to output from all but the simplest analysis steps .
22 EZ-RPC PC-NFS will enable developers to distribute specific sub-routines of an application across multi-vendor networks to which ever host is best suited to the processing task .
23 What seems barbarous is admirably suited to the rain-forest environment , for the scattering of the groups , their rigorous population control and their constant movement mean that the forest is nowhere completely depleted and recovers through cycles of regeneration before being farmed once more .
24 This fine actor , whose appearances on the stage are all too infrequent , is well suited to the part of CS Lewis , committed Christian and seemingly confirmed bachelor .
25 His first language is Welsh , and he believes the language is well suited to the world of business .
26 The water used in brewing Guinness comes from the catchment areas in the Wicklow Mountains close to where the Liffey rises and is particularly suited to the brewing of stout because of its purity and softness .
27 With Jannie Breedt and the mercurial Francois Pienaar he makes up a back row that is ideally suited to the type of game South Africa will need to play to beat the best in the world .
28 It has performed superbly on the Swanage Railway where it is ideally suited to the kind of work undertaken at that location .
29 The method of projecting a geometric box forward from a backcloth is ideally suited to the exploration of interiors .
30 This is a powerful tool for ‘ free text retrieval ’ which , according to the 1978 Lindop report on data protection , is ideally suited to the retrieval of ‘ every occurrence of particular items of information from a larger mass , and for discovering the relationship of one piece of information with another . ’
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