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 ( 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 . )
3 The level of cover is usually 90% for buyer risk and 90 — 95% for political risk .
4 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 .
5 there is always scope for improvement in any activity ;
6 Because there is always room for doubt , we are always left with room to inquire .
7 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 .
8 While most do it effectively there is always room for improvement .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Standardization only refers to certain aspects of a product 's design — there is still scope for variation .
13 However there is still room for hope .
14 He now reads as well as other children his age , although there is still room for improvement in numeracy .
15 But there is still room for improvement .
16 I know we are in the middle of a recession , but surely there is still room for compassion .
17 While the logic of this ‘ basic needs ’ approach is appealing , there is still room for argument about precisely which needs are basic .
18 As long as proper outcome data is collected there is clearly scope for patient care to be at the forefront of discussion of RMI .
19 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 .
20 In civil legislation , there is clearly room for fault to be penalised if it is merely a mistake .
21 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 .
22 There is also evidence for involvement of POU family proteins in DNA replication .
23 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 ) .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 It is worth noting , however , that Richards 's concept of poetry is similar to that which we have encountered in the previous two chapters , in that poetry for him is simply shorthand for literature that has aesthetic value ; his belief was that the value of literature as a whole lay entirely in its use of the emotive function of language .
27 The scheme with which the Secretary of State has been landed is almost word for word the proposition set out in the pamphlet in 13 rather badly argued pages .
28 As markers , we would be happy enough to see you argue either way as long as you recognized that there is indeed room for argument over this point .
29 ‘ In political activity ’ , writes Oakeshott , ‘ men sail a boundless and bottomless sea ; there is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage , neither starting-place nor appointed destination .
30 For example , regular work has to be postponed or cancelled as a result and , because of the knock-on effects , there is never space for team members to take time off in lieu , in order to recuperate from overtime working dealing with highly stressful situations .
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