Example sentences of "say that it be [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mother , her doctor and her psychotherapist say that it is vital for her well-being that next month she goes to the same primary school as her friends . |
| 2 | He says that it is important for partners in the smaller firm always to ensure that they will be adequately represented in the combined firm 's management structure . |
| 3 | ‘ I was just saying that it 's easier for me than it would be for your average Englishman . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | The poet 's wife tried to avoid going , by saying that it was late for the child and that she would have expected her husband not to be curious . |
| 7 | When the latest decision became known last night , Peter said that it was encouraging for Mansell , the Ferrari lawyer pointing out that this was the first time that the FIA had not confirmed a decision . |
| 8 | He had insisted on living in Auckland Castle though some people said that it was absurd for the Bishop of Durham to be saddled with such a pile . |
| 9 | Afterwards we all said that it was good for the game that the transplant of power which had begun at the Sydney Football Stadium in our bi-centennial year had taken so robustly . |
| 10 | Conradin loved it , but the aunt said that it was bad for him . |
| 11 | Everyone said that it was bad for the milk . |
| 12 | The prosecution at Hawarden magistrates court said that it was concerned for the defendant 's safety if the case was being adjourned and he was bailed , because of the strength of feeling generated by the attack . |
| 13 | The prosecution at Hawarden magistrates court said that it was concerned for the defendant 's safety if the case was being adjourned and he was bailed , because of the strength of feeling generated by the attack . |
| 14 | You see it 's one thing for Jesus to say that it 's another for us to believe it and accept it . |
| 15 | In any event , if luck was on her side , and by her reckoning it was high time luck paid her a visit , the garage might well have delivered her car to her hotel by now — or at least have telephoned to say that it was ready for collection . |
| 16 | It may be suggested that he may simply qualify somewhat and say that it is wrong for others to tell such lies and not for him , and that there is no purely logical inconsistency here . |
| 17 | In case you are frightened off , may I say that it is unusual for there to be more than three major matters arising from a survey on the average house . |