Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [pers pn] [be] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | If parents and nurses would only realise how much easier it is for the child to bend to the social and moral laws in later life , when trained from infancy , how much sorrow might be saved . |
| 2 | No clear principles determine the allocation of disputes to these bodies although the greater the element of discretion and the more important the policy considerations , the less likely it is for the courts to take on the new area of responsibility . |
| 3 | Thus , the more suitable the application is for bit-pattern index handling ( small numbers of possible attributes ) , the less suitable it is for inverted file handling . |
| 4 | owing to the difficulty of forecasting [ … ] the less possible , and indeed , the less desirable it is for the person purchasing to specify what the other contracting party is expected to do [ … |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm not surprised she was for cats ' meat , ’ Biddy said . |
| 6 | They had walked quite some miles , she realised on the return journey , and she had been in his company for quite some while , so it came as no surprise to also realise how totally unsuited she was for the job she was there to do . |
| 7 | Generally speaking , the longer the period of planning for an escape the more satisfactory it was for the prospective escaper . |
| 8 | The more ambitious you are for how the magazine is to look , the more time-consuming and expensive your enterprise becomes . |
| 9 | Broadly speaking , the higher a person is in the management structure , the more essential it is for him or her to be given work when it is available . |
| 10 | ‘ The more radical the slogans , the more difficult it is for us the day after in the corridors of power in Moscow . ’ |
| 11 | The more distant in time an issue is to current industry concerns , the more difficult it is for managers to establish that it applies to their business in some significant way ( relevancy ) and that it should be addressed now ( urgency ) . |
| 12 | The larger the number of firms already supplying a market and the more difficult it is for them to collude , the more competition there is likely to be . |
| 13 | I can see how hopelessly unsuitable I am for you ; all I ever do is misunderstand what you say , and weep . |
| 14 | On behalf of CPRW , I would like to say how grateful we are for your request to the Trustees of Mrs L D Rope 's Second Charitable Settlement to consider making a donation to CPRW . |
| 15 | ‘ I shall try to think of some way of showing how grateful I am for your bravery . |
| 16 | I want to show you how grateful I am for that . ’ |
| 17 | In passing , I would like to say how grateful I was for this friendly and sympathetic , as well as informative , advice from the Humanist Association . |
| 18 | ‘ You must show cookie here how grateful you are for all the trouble she 's taken . ’ |
| 19 | She wanted to show how grateful she was for this second chance . |
| 20 | He could see how hopeless it was for her . |
| 21 | Every day couples meet who are amazed at how right they are for each other — proof that Dateline works ! |
| 22 | We 'd been saying how awful it was , how sorry we were for Connie . |
| 23 | He could tell her face to face how sorry he was for the incident of the previous night . |
| 24 | Tell him how sorry you are for letting Satan influence your life . |
| 25 | And suddenly she knew how much she longed to see them , to introduce him to them , and to tell them how sorry she was for her wild behaviour over Terry , and for her conceited folly over Havvie . |
| 26 | She remembered the bride of one year , alight with the happiness of those early celebrations when the Grand Duke had granted the first liberties , and thought how strange it was for an English woman to be so mad with joy . |
| 27 | ‘ People still write about how strange it was for me to be with someone like Catherine , ’ he says . |
| 28 | ‘ I should have thought anyone with a grain of sensitivity would realise how painful it is for all of us to have this all raked up again . |
| 29 | Christian preachers could declare how wrong it was for an individual to be dominated by another so as to be his legal property , and to be bought for much less than the rich would give for a racehorse . |
| 30 | Frankly , having spent two days looking at how different it is for Nirvana right now — or rather , how it was six weeks ago — I found it difficult not to . |