Example sentences of "[adj] for [pers pn] to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're talking just under two hundred in Denmark and just under three hundred in Norway it may be cost-effective for us to do it ourselves with initial distribution from Stansted and maybe a local person doing any new distributions but I think in all honesty it will be as cheap for us |
| 2 | Sometimes Bentham is represented as having held a significantly different view from that just described , according to which an action which it is right for me to do at any moment is either one which produces a greater surplus of pleasure over pain than any alternative action then open to me ( in which case it is the one right action ) or produces as great a surplus as any alternative ( in which case it is a right action ) , while all actions not thus right are wrong . |
| 3 | What probably happened was that she suddenly decided the time was right for her to do some publicity and she had something to talk about , her book , Elizabeth Takes off . |
| 4 | I explained that we men were ready to stay if the meeting felt it was right for us to do so . |
| 5 | Although I accept that it is right for us to do that , a counterbalance should be a more effective way of scrutinising affirmative and negative orders . |
| 6 | At that moment it had been appropriate to put big pickets you know I think if we thought too much about it we would have and taken it to the lodge and put it through the union it would have had cold water put over it and you know it was right for Tom to be wary and it was probably right for us to do what we did I mean I think you know it it was successful the way it turned out . |
| 7 | Get out the photograph album , remember old times and cry — if that is what feels right for you to do . |
| 8 | Then someone fell out and it was possible for me to do the Figaro myself . |
| 9 | Equality brings emancipation : according to Marx it will be ‘ possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow , to hunt in the morning , fish in the afternoon , rear cattle in the evening , criticise after dinner , just as I have a mind without ever becoming hunter , fisherman , shepherd or critic ’ . |
| 10 | in making it possible for me to do part-time research . |
| 11 | He has to do what it is morally possible for him to do in the circumstances . |
| 12 | What it means is that as life ‘ is not a single straight line ’ he does what he thinks must be done and what it is morally possible for him to do in situations of moral dilemma . |
| 13 | Low-rise houses , on the contrary , can be improved and extended by their occupants as and when it is possible for them to do so . |
| 14 | No such assurances have been given by the Opposition because it is not possible for them to do so . |
| 15 | I hesitate to use adjectives as to what they would be like if they did n't spend at that level , but we believe it is possible for them to do so and there is something wrong with their spending levels if they do n't do it . |
| 16 | It is possible for us to do it — we carried out one test in France — but it is very expensive . ’ |
| 17 | If , as a result of its inquiries under s47 , it concludes that certain action should be taken to safeguard or promote a child 's welfare it must take that action so far as it is both within its power and reasonably practicable for it to do so ( s47(8) ) . |
| 18 | But we , cos I 'll have to do it for you so , something interesting for me to do . |
| 19 | It was OK for her to do this kind of thing when in a mediumistic trance , but this was n't quite that , was it ? |
| 20 | Even though it says it 's free for you to do it , they 'll still ring up another number |
| 21 | They are not equipped to care much about the management of the individual firms they own , nor would it be sensible for them to do so : their benefits come from the market 's general performance , not from the particular . |
| 22 | Erm , leisure services product , erm , project erm , closure , really that was an opportunity to erm , to close the loss making element of provision without cost , and in view of the erm , rather poor outlook for maintenance work for the next contract year , it seemed sensible for us to do that . |
| 23 | ‘ He felt it foolish for me to do otherwise . |
| 24 | It also advocated that the local authorities should ‘ maintain their presence in higher education ’ , adding that it would only be acceptable for them to do so if they could all ‘ restrain themselves from excessive and unreasonable interference in the running of large , developed polytechnics with the skills and competence to look after themselves ’ . |
| 25 | In its wisdom , the Community felt able to do that for the Iberian peninsula a few years ago and it would be right and proper for it to do something analogous for the central European countries . |
| 26 | In her study of young Asian men and women who were unemployed , Brah notes that sons with widowed mothers felt under particular pressure to support them financially and practically , and when unemployment made it impossible for them to do so they felt ‘ an acute sense of failure ’ as one of her interviewees put it , |
| 27 | We also recognise that there is a tremendous problem for deferred pensioners in achieving reasonable transfer values er er er it 's a massive problem for them , even where they could find perhaps something to do with that money and a scheme that would do them better , not always , because there , there are people that give bad advice , but there are some that go into it very thoroughly and when it comes down to the bit the transfer value they receive makes it im practically impossible for them to do it . |
| 28 | On 4 June , the day the Dunkirk evacuation ended , he wrote to the Chiefs of Staff : ‘ if it is so easy for the Germans to invade us … why should it be … impossible for us to do anything of the same kind to him ? ’ |
| 29 | To the discussions ( when appropriate for them to do so ) came the classteacher , the school nurse , the social worker who knew the family , the family priest . |
| 30 | The cost of developing power plants to meet ever-tougher emissons laws will make it cost-uneffective for them to do so themselves , he contends , especially if engines are destined for low volume applications . |