Example sentences of "[conj] it [is] [adj] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where it is necessary for a company , for example , to pass a resolution to promote legislation , it is useful to include an authority for one or two persons to settle drafting points , and this is especially necessary at the committee stage before commissioners , when decisions sometimes have to be made on the spur of the moment . |
| 2 | They can be formed on land near the sea , in shallow lakes or indeed anywhere where it is possible for a large volume of water to find its way into the volcanic vent . |
| 3 | Thus , although it is preferable for a definite noun phrase to be assigned a referent , a failure to do so does not justify rejecting the reading altogether ( if that were done , then , for example , the initial sentence ‘ John put a bowl on the floor ’ would be rejected as incoherent ) . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm not saying that women ca n't raise sons on their own , I 'm saying that it 's difficult for a woman to teach , and very near impossible , in my mind , for a woman to teach a young boy how to be a man . |
| 5 | I 'm , I 'm , quite amazed that , that , the question has even been asked , you know , that er that , that , er is this a good thing , I mean er presumably the people that are arguing that it 's not a good thing and that are concerned about events are actually condoning imperialism , er these people seem to think that it 's okay for a country to be occupied er like Poland was occupied by Germany and Czechoslovakia and France , that 's okay er and in fact you know we should just turn a blind eye to it and just let it carry on forever . |
| 6 | However , it will certainly be true that it is optimal for a risk-neutral party to take all risk from a risk-averse party ( try A or B bargaining with C ) and it would seem sensible that a more risk-averse party should optimally take on less of the risk than a less risk-averse one . |
| 7 | Section 2 of the Sex Discrimination Act 1986 amends s. 6(4) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 so as to provide that it is unlawful for a person to discriminate against a woman : |
| 8 | Even the most ardent advocates of exchange rate flexibility no longer maintain that it is feasible for a country to pursue independent policy objectives in isolation from the rest of the world . |
| 9 | Will he note that it is rare for a mosque to be locked and that people of the Islamic faith remain in their mosques to ensure that they are not vandalised . |
| 10 | I feel that it is essential for a horse to go through water . |
| 11 | Also , he does not adequately discuss how to relate those critical success factors in a logically connected way through a model for improving competitive strength in a specific situation , and fails to recognize that it is essential for a strategic analysis to indicate who is responsible for which central success factor . |
| 12 | C it is shown that the demand for futures can be split into speculative and hedging components , and that it is rational for a risk-averse trader to speculate and hedge simultaneously in the same future . |
| 13 | E capsules ( as opposed to tablets or ‘ tabs ’ ) have the added problem that it is easy for a dealer to alter the ingredients after the drug is manufactured . |
| 14 | It follows that it is possible for a member to have the same problem raised by both bodies more or less at the same time . |
| 15 | A group income election is flexible in that it is possible for a dividend to be paid outside the election by informing the Collector of Taxes ( s 247(3) ) . |
| 16 | Many Christians believe that it is possible for a person to be possessed by a force contrary to good ; a force called evil . |
| 17 | The problem is that the ‘ well-constructed ’ or ‘ textbook ’ ad is liable to be extremely boring unless it embodies a really good idea , and that it is possible for a skilled creative person to bend the ‘ rules ’ of construction in such a way as to make a moderately good idea look or sound much better . |
| 18 | Recall that the experience-curve theory says that the ability to learn is directly related to the accumulated production experience and that it is possible for a company to reduce total costs over time by a careful introduction of new management and production processes ( see Abernathy and Wayne , 1974 , and Dutton and Thomas , 1984 , for careful assessments of this claim ) . |
| 19 | This is usually done in order to reassure the patient ( e.g. explaining that it is customary for a person 's interest in sex to be impaired when depressed ) . |
| 20 | He argues that it is common for a depressed person to grossly exaggerate the negative implications of events ( sometimes called ‘ catastrophising ’ ) : ‘ I did n't get that job I 'm not bright enough — I 'll be unemployed or in low-level jobs for ever — I 'll be bored and boring-my friends will abandon me — my husband wo n't love me any more . ’ |
| 21 | Their husbands think that it is natural for a wife to go out and flaunt her husband 's prosperity and her family 's worth — that is their tiny horizon . |
| 22 | Instead of thinking that it is natural for a moving object to carry on in a straight line at a steady speed , and then worrying about how the force of gravity manages to pull all objects — heavy ones and light ones — round in the same orbit , what we ought to be doing is thinking of the path they all follow as being the natural path . |
| 23 | The strategy is that it is difficult for a predator to home in on its target in the confusion which follows an attack on a shoal which scatters in all directions . |
| 24 | It is known that it is unusual for a person with HIV infection to become ill within three years of acquiring the virus , except for newborn babies infected before they were born . |
| 25 | This is a difficult question that will be examined more fully later ; for the present I will answer it ( rather unsatisfactorily ) by saying that it is unusual for a syllable said on a level pitch to be so prominent that it would be described as carrying a level tone . |
| 26 | Because changes in church services arouse strong emotions and can lead to serious divisions , the Commission believes that it is sensible for a parish to have a worship committee or group . |
| 27 | Since there is a large number of nerves the number of possible combinations and sequences of stimuli is enormous so it is possible for a system like that , in principle , to produce a very large number of possible reactions . |
| 28 | Fentanyl is not a sedative so it is possible for a baby to have adequate analgesia and still be irritable . |
| 29 | ‘ A man may deposit on his land excrement which is foul smelling and a nuisance , but it may be that the evil effects wear off in twenty-four to forty-eight hours so it is difficult for a local authority to serve an abatement notice and prove that the nuisance was still in existence when service was made , whereas now , once the deposit is made and is indeed a statutory nuisance , then the statutory nuisance has occurred , and if the local authority are satisfied it will occur again they may serve a prohibition notice ’ . |
| 30 | Their music has hints of The Waterboys , New Model Army and The Clash and it 's perfect for a good ole stomp . |