Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: We managed to make a serious situation more tolerable than we had ever expected previously.

• find: Today I inspected our Karelian fortifications and on the whole found the situation tolerable.

Modifies a noun

• intake: These would be the levels to be achieved in order to bring human exposure below the tolerable weekly intake of 14 pg dioxins.

• standard: The amount of personal effort needed to keep up a tolerable standard is really quite, quite, trivial.

• limit: The annual rate of soil loss in the SALT farm is 3.4 metric tons per hectares, well within the tolerable limits.

• level: These foods should be kept to a tolerable level.

• error: No packages are allowed to contain less than the nominal quantity by more than twice the tolerable negative error.

• state: Additions had been made in 1827 to Kings College buildings which were in a tolerable state of repair.

Modifying Another Word

• barely: Mere addition paradox: is a large population living barely tolerable lives better than a small happy population?

• quite: The existing 2 per cent trend rate of UK productivity advance is in fact quite tolerable.

• about: My view is that the present balance is just about tolerable given the undemocratic nature of the upper house.

• even: It is wrong to allow the wealthy to believe that the rest of society finds their existence desirable or even tolerable.

• very: The House, tho small, is very tolerable ' .

• just: It was very warm, but a cool wind coming down the valley kept things just tolerable.

Used with adjective complement

• remain: Climate change will accelerate uncontrollably; billions of people will die this century and only the Arctic regions will remain tolerable for humans.

• become: And the reading has started to grow on me and become more tolerable.

• find: This might have been found more tolerable had it been due to honest competition.

• make: There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence.

• seem: It probably made the hardships of Grantham seem more tolerable.

• consider: The XLink AUP ( Acceptable Use Policy ) details what we at Team XLink will consider tolerable.