Example sentences of "it is a [noun] [prep] them " in BNC.

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1 If individual purchasers want to reveal what they paid for a company , it is a matter for them .
2 The position taken by the accounting profession is that the function of the accounts is to provide verifiable information : what users of that information choose to do with it is a matter for them .
3 It is a kindness to them to say that they misled you , Holly , you were their plaything .
4 Rather it is an opportunity for them to contribute positively to the educational , social and personal support which many pupils do need but often do not receive .
5 As Bertrand Russell points out , it was James Mill , active Radical as he was , who in 1831 wrote of Hodgskin 's followers : ‘ Their notions of property look ugly : … they seem to think that it should not exist , and that the existence of it is an evil to them .
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