Example sentences of "and [adj] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cool and fresh it 's to be for the fish , more studied and solid for the main course ; for the dessert , fragile and delicate . |
| 2 | Furthermore , your Lordships may feel that it is inconvenient and undesirable for the criminal law as enunciated in Lawrence and Dobson to be in conflict with the law affecting the title to money and other kinds of property . |
| 3 | It would be impracticable and undesirable for the High Court of Justice to embark upon an inquiry concerning the effect or the effectiveness of the internal procedures in the High Court of Parliament or an inquiry whether in any particular case those procedures were effectively followed . |
| 4 | Looking back I am constantly amazed and grateful for the high risks that others took by giving me responsibility in my early years in ICI . |
| 5 | I wondered whether I had said something that I could n't remember , perhaps had shrieked or whispered that I would n't go back , but Lili said she had heard it was unusually hot for the time of year and unsuitable for a run-down person . |
| 6 | But Hambleton District Council opposes the move as the property lies in the heart of the town 's industrial estate and it says it is noisy and unsuitable for the old . |
| 7 | A bit too frail and woolly for the rough and tumble of ordinary practice . |
| 8 | These lectures making science comprehensible and palatable for the fashionable , the earnest and the intellectual circles of London were not the whole programme of the Institution . |
| 9 | Clough wrote : ‘ I felt angry , frustrated , disappointed , useless and unused for a whole week . |
| 10 | But she was too warm and lazy for a proper argument . |
| 11 | At the death , Mike Procter , the South African coach , stood ashen-faced and speechless for a full 10 minutes on the pavilion steps , unable to take in what had just transpired . |
| 12 | After that I searched high and low for a new teacher , and when I found one I had to start from scratch . |
| 13 | It forms the basis for contempt on the part of the young and strong for the old and weak , and the increasing fear of human mortality which old age seems to represent so vividly . |
| 14 | That is if erm material , material for these topics should be lively and interesting for the broad range of pupil ability i.e. differentiation . |
| 15 | It is thought , for example , that the long and feathery antennae of male mosquitoes pick up the specific sound wave patterns generated by a female mosquito who is ready and willing for a sexual encounter . |
| 16 | ‘ It is a terrible waste of resources and heart-breaking for the local community , ’ he said . |
| 17 | All of which gives one seriously to think that there must be many another way in which hearing folk are completely at sea in their ideas about what is right and proper for the deaf . |
| 18 | This will be confusing for scientists and painful for the particular patients involved . |
| 19 | The most likely reason for the incompleteness of the depth scaling is the presence of contradictory vergence angle information , which remained constant and appropriate for the 57-cm distance of the display screens throughout the experiments . |
| 20 | But generally the climate is comfortably warm — ideal for small children and perfect for the Spanish ritual of the paseo , the evening parade when grandmothers , mothers and their offspring , dressed up to the nines , ride their bikes , push prams , sip coffee , choose ice-creams , and gossip like a noisy flock of birds settling down before bedtime . |
| 21 | and sad for the shining , |
| 22 | Vologsky was silent and thoughtful for a long while . |
| 23 | In fact she had been feeling tired and queasy for the past few days ; and that night , when the leading man laid her on the sofa , suddenly turned her head and , without letting the audience see , vomited quietly down the sofa back . |
| 24 | ‘ We 'll have to make peace , you and I. You 're too sharp and quick for an old sailor like me … ‘ |
| 25 | Have new television channels , satellite cable etc. made the film critic redundant and fit for an academic existence only ? |
| 26 | The English chronicler , Roger of Howden , who was in Rome at the time , saw both of them as papabile and ambitious for the papal throne . |
| 27 | EOF#-1 returns TRUE for an expanded machine and FALSE for an unexpanded machine . |
| 28 | EOF#-1 returns TRUE for an expanded machine ( >=; 128Kbytes of RAM in SLOT 1 ) and FALSE for an unexpanded machine . |
| 29 | The Great Barr , located to the north of the city , close to motorway links and ideal for an overnight stop or as a touring base for the motorists exploring the Big Heart of England . |
| 30 | Compiling an elaborate data base or investing in systems akin to those of very large companies or the Civil Service would clearly be uneconomic and unjustified for a medium size group . |