Example sentences of "is [adv] [noun] for [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 There are other law officers who are politicians and members of the government , all of whom are expected to act impartially in their legal functions , but there is obviously scope for ambiguity and interpretation here .
2 ‘ It is not sport for sport 's sake , ’ says Mr Hawkins , who is an ex-Harlem-Globetrotter , ‘ but a way of imposing a structure on undisciplined lives : in a sports team they turn up regularly , on time , in uniform , and train hard .
3 Thus , while the risks of ERCP are relatively fewer , this is not grounds for complacency .
4 It is not time for Labour .
5 This is not value for money , we 're working with very , very needy people in our community .
6 ( That some people lack these impulses is normally grounds for criticism ; we call them sadists , cruel , or , if it is by way of business , then merely hardened . )
7 The level of cover is usually 90% for buyer risk and 90 — 95% for political risk .
8 In the absence of agreement between the two parties within a particular time , there is usually provision for reference to a third firm of accountants to determine the area of disagreement .
9 there is always scope for improvement in any activity ;
10 Because there is always room for doubt , we are always left with room to inquire .
11 There is always room for improvement — few would argue that recent incentives ( immunisation targets , for example ) have not helped to produce better health for our patients .
12 While most do it effectively there is always room for improvement .
13 However , there is always room for improvement and I think the public has little idea of the enormous problems that confront us , all of us , as the parents of these children in care .
14 There is always room for improvement , not least in their tightness and body positions at the breakdown and it would be nice to see forwards hitting rucks in threes and fours rather than ones and twos .
15 Setting the objectives , then , is at least moderately straightforward , though it can be made more complex by the addition of sub-objectives relating to secondary groups of consumers , and there is always room for argument as to how much it is realistic to expect to achieve .
16 Standardization only refers to certain aspects of a product 's design — there is still scope for variation .
17 However there is still room for hope .
18 He now reads as well as other children his age , although there is still room for improvement in numeracy .
19 But there is still room for improvement .
20 I know we are in the middle of a recession , but surely there is still room for compassion .
21 While the logic of this ‘ basic needs ’ approach is appealing , there is still room for argument about precisely which needs are basic .
22 As long as proper outcome data is collected there is clearly scope for patient care to be at the forefront of discussion of RMI .
23 Besides the improvement to the view for the inhabitants , there is clearly benefit for wildlife as well as spin-offs such as greater levels of dust adsorption onto the leaves , increased humidity , larger areas of shade for summer days and greater insulation for winter nights .
24 In civil legislation , there is clearly room for fault to be penalised if it is merely a mistake .
25 There is also provision for ABWOR to be provided at the request of a magistrates ' court or a county court by a solicitor within the precincts of the court for purposes other than the provision of ABWOR , where the court considers that the case should proceed the same day and that the client would not otherwise receive representation .
26 There is also evidence for involvement of POU family proteins in DNA replication .
27 Suppose , first , that the other player is also Tit for Tat ( remember that each strategy played against copies of itself as well as against the other 14 ) .
28 A properly understood market process is not just a generator of economic welfare , it is also protection for liberty and an efficient method for the realization of many desirable social goals .
29 There is co-operation in information exchange between such centres , but there is also competition for peer recognition , which in turn affects research funding decisions for these very expensive facilities .
30 " I do n't pretend that medical science has yet found a method of treating cholera that 's quite satisfactory , I do n't say there is n't room for improvement , ladies and gentlemen … but what I do say is that it 's the duty of a member of the medical profession to use the best available treatment known and accepted by his fellow physicians !
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