Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] it be [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He needs to persuade foreigners that it is safe for them to lend the best part of £1000 million a week to the Treasury ; and he needs to persuade Britons that it is safe for them to start spending their money again . |
| 2 | Women 's Cooperative Guild members also contrasted them unfavourably with their own more democratic Guild meetings , deploring the way in which ‘ ladies came and lectured on the domestic affairs in the workers ’ homes that it was impossible for them to understand' . |
| 3 | ‘ We scored some quality goals and it was good for the fans whose support so far this season has been fantastic . ’ |
| 4 | Having been synthesized it has to be transported to the part of the cell in which it is required ; there it will remain for its lifetime of hours , weeks or months until it is due for renewal , when it is pulled out of place in the cell and broken down by enzymes as quickly as it was previously synthesized , its building blocks ( the amino acids ) being recycled in the synthesis of other proteins . |
| 5 | Milan is full of excellent coffee shops and it is better for the visitor to choose what appears to be best for him , her or them . |
| 6 | In the late Seventies the Ashleys were travelling around so much and had so many different houses that it was hard for them to know where home was . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 8 | We were told by our parents that it was bad for our health to drink a lot of water in such heat , so we all became very thin , as well as very brown , in the sun . |
| 9 | Today children are meeting and playing with children of other faiths so it is important for them to have some understanding and knowledge of each other 's traditions . |
| 10 | Macaulay Culkin is a 12-year-old , 4ft 6in licence to print money and Home Alone 2 : Lost In New York is set to pull in more folding bills than it is possible for the human mind to contemplate . |
| 11 | There is no preference in the law between an adult or a child in the use of the available seat belts but it is safer for the adult to be restrained . |
| 12 | There 're so many wild oranges on the island that when they 're ripe the boys and girls go out in gangs , pick them by the thousand , squeeze out all the juice and let it ferment in casks until it 's ready for a week-long celebration . |
| 13 | The US government has been told by congressional investigators that it is responsible for cleaning up possibly hundreds of thousands of publicly-owned environmentally hazardous sites , at a cost of billions of dollars . |
| 14 | How else do we explain to Plant Managers and to Governments that it 's right for the Corporation to purchase products from non-European sources , but it 's wrong to supply European components to the United States because the US divisions would n't like it ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It is good for the passengers to have a choice of airlines and it is good for the airlines themselves to have to respond and innovate . |
| 16 | It does n't necessarily mean that they 're unscrupulous in the way that they get their own way ; they just have very clear ideas and it 's impossible for them to see it any other way . ’ |
| 17 | Trade unions run extensive negotiating sessions for their full time officials and it is sensible for managers to gain a familiarity with the subject . |
| 18 | This means that in some areas water from the mains may have to be treated chemically to neutralize the additives before it is safe for fish . |
| 19 | Some of the defenders of the domestic load , such as Dennis Bellamy ( chairman of the Yorkshire Board ) , occasionally quoted cost and load data to justify their views , but these were based on such a biased sample of observations that it was difficult for any serious enquirer to accept them at face value . |
| 20 | He needs to persuade foreigners that it is safe for them to lend the best part of £1000 million a week to the Treasury ; and he needs to persuade Britons that it is safe for them to start spending their money again . |
| 21 | It is because of those reforms that it is right for us to be sceptical about some of the claims that the right hon. Gentleman has made today . |
| 22 | They need those decision structures because it is impossible for them to know enough to control activities directly . |
| 23 | It is a fact that exercise is of general benefit to people of all ages because it is necessary for the optimum function , structure and preservation of muscles , bones , joints , and the heart . |
| 24 | The Court 's position had not been made any easier by suggestions that it was possible for the Government to influence its decisions . |
| 25 | Because they are obviously scared of needles and it is hard for their parents , having to inject them . |
| 26 | It is difficult to understand the politics within some controlling bodies without knowing all the details and it is difficult for me to comment . |
| 27 | They know that their children are stronger than them in many ways and it is hard for them to come to terms with that and still keep their dignity and self-respect . |
| 28 | Yes we were told they 're going to be trees like that because they 've had a lot of trouble with pigeons roosting in the erm the mature trees and it 's impossible for people to sit on the benches underneath cos of er pigeon mess . |
| 29 | Clearly this is no place for novices but it is possible for them , if armed with a torch and wearing boots and clothes that do n't matter , to go into one hole and emerge from the other , the two entrance passages converging after fifteen yards of stumbling progress . |
| 30 | Darlington council will no longer have to chase individual community charge payers but it is responsible for establishing who , at each address in the town , is liable to pay the Council Tax . |