Example sentences of "[adv] it [be] [adv] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And as she and Steve are together it 's not unlikely for him to pick up the phone if it rang . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Apparently it is virtually unknown for a Person who has been murdered to be found with closed eyes . ’ |
| 3 | Perhaps it 's too hard for you … ’ |
| 4 | Looking back on it , perhaps it was not appropriate for me to heckle the vicar over the inadequate parking facilities at St Dodimeads . |
| 5 | Perhaps it was too dark for Miriam to notice how Louise was taken aback by this remark , how she blushed . |
| 6 | Perhaps it was too confining for his poetic mind for he said of it , ‘ The only good I ever got from it was the memory of the words ‘ sonus disilientis aquae ’ and the old wall covered with weeds opposite the school windows ’ . |
| 7 | Perhaps it was as well for the peace of mind of the Somerset-based players in the Olympic team that details of the County Championship would have been hard to come by in Paris . |
| 8 | She hoped a fortnight was enough : she knew it was supposed to take about that length of time to get over chicken-pox , but perhaps it was more serious for adults . |
| 9 | Consequently , as Needham has pointed out , in so far as Chinese natural philosophy ‘ was committed to thinking of time in separate compartments or boxes , perhaps it was more difficult for a Galileo to arise who should uniformise time into an abstract geometrical co-ordinate , a continuous dimension amenable to mathematical handling ’ . |
| 10 | If only it were as simple for military plutonium . |
| 11 | It is unlikely that voting by a single shareholder will make much difference to the success of a resolution either way , and so it is not worthwhile for shareholders to evaluate proposals put to the general meeting . |
| 12 | So it is not implausible for critics to say that the solid-state detectors are unreliable and somehow bring about a sharp distortion in the spectra . |
| 13 | some some extra layers on this , I mean I think that 's very valid and the extra layers include er one , the fact that since then there have been a number of royals who have divorced and so it is not unique for royals to be divorced and the Church of England has not jumped up and down about the fact that there are royals who are divorced particularly given that the , you know the Church of England are opposed to divorce . |
| 14 | So it is particularly important for you to be protected against it . |
| 15 | So it is particularly important for you to be protected against it . |
| 16 | The implication of all this is that large numbers of firms are unnecessary to achieve economic efficiency , and so it is equally possible for oligopolies to attain an efficient allocation of resources . |
| 17 | How they actually manage it is not revealed and so it is highly suitable for family viewing . |
| 18 | So National Savings , that 's not a bad decision , cos I mean National Savings are absolutely secure , and the other thing is that you do n't need to put twenty five thousand pounds in to get the highest rate , you 'll get the highest rate from two thousand pounds upwards , so it 's very good for small amounts . |
| 19 | So it 's very easy for bacteria , which are always present around the anus , to reach the usually bacteria-free urethra and travel up into the bladder where they multiply and irritate the bladder lining . |
| 20 | But it 's important that they get abroad and see these because they also imbibe a lot of feeling from just walking around these places and seeing what the ladies are wearing so it 's very important for them to go to those places . |
| 21 | So it 's perfectly fine for me to transcribe on |
| 22 | So it 's more convenient for you . |
| 23 | With so much land to be disposed of , it was hard to make them put up with anything less than freehold tenure , and so it was almost impossible for the proprietors to make very much out of their estates . |
| 24 | The casket had been specially made to the measurements of Osiris and when it was his turn to get inside it was exactly right for him . |
| 25 | Thus it is quite possible for a finance company to insist that some third person acts as a safeguard against the finance company making a loss on the transaction . |
| 26 | And also it 's quite useful for the |
| 27 | Also it is normally possible for the ball to be passed straight to the back without anyone touching it on its way . |
| 28 | Now it 's very easy for all the leaders around the world , not that easy to get them all together , but once they were together , it was very easy for them all to say yes the situation 's dreadful , it 's awful , it 's awful . |
| 29 | ‘ Kinnear is entitled to his opinion , but really it 's too ludicrous for words to say we 're just a long-ball team . |
| 30 | Those whose native language is a tone language should be aware of the considerable linguistic importance of tone in such languages ; often it is extremely difficult for people who have spoken a tone language all their life to learn to observe their own use of tone objectively . |