Example sentences of "[is] it [adv] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | When so many different strands of opinion oppose privatisation — a view that will undoubtedly be expressed today — is it not stupid for the Government to introduce the Bill in their dying days ? |
| 2 | Is it not possible for a person to ‘ remember ’ something he never did ? |
| 3 | Is it not possible for the Council to devise rules to eliminate such resolutions which have little or no relevance to the purposes and work of the national trust ? |
| 4 | Is it not possible for the media to get some kind of award organised , say if a newspaper or TV station succeeds in not showing Mr Bell for several years , weeks or even days ? |
| 5 | If protection is good for the Welsh water authority , why is it not good for the Wrexham water company ? |
| 6 | Is it not short-sighted for both Opposition parties to be pledged to the abolition of this scheme ? |
| 7 | Is it not unprecedented for an Opposition Front-Bench spokesman to refuse to give way to a Minister in a case such as this ? |
| 8 | And is it not natural for a gentleman to love a pretty woman ? |
| 9 | What kinds of task is it most appropriate for groups to undertake ? |
| 10 | Is it then irrational for the Secretary of State , by devolution , to allow such decisions to be taken by a minister of state or Parliamentary under-secretary of state ? |
| 11 | Why is it so important for them to say such things ? |
| 12 | One , why is it so important for the newcomer . |
| 13 | ‘ Is it so wrong for him to take a pep pill ? |
| 14 | ‘ Why is it so difficult for everyone to believe me ? ’ she demanded through clenched teeth . |
| 15 | Why is it so hard for men to be happy ? |
| 16 | Why is it so hard for you to believe me ? ’ |
| 17 | Is it therefore better for er a , a parent our parents , our parents to give as a gift the house to both people in order to claim both allowances ? |
| 18 | Erm I think my answer to the to the questions being thrown out by by the Senior Inspector is is that surely Government policy is to protect the countryside for its own sake , and and why is it therefore wrong for a county with erm areas of acknowledged environmental importance to try and give expression to that in in its structure plan . |
| 19 | First of all , there is the very real ethical problem : is it morally permissible for a social scientist to get information through false pretences ? |
| 20 | Is it really appropriate for policy to deal with such matters as classroom display , layout , grouping and teaching methods , to take four by now familiar examples ? |
| 21 | Is it really possible for a woman to break a man 's penis in the same way that one can break a wrist or an arm ? |
| 22 | But is it really possible for researchers to remember details of conversations as they claim to do ? |
| 23 | The person 's kept himself out of trouble so is it really right for us to get him back before the courts again ? |
| 24 | Is it really necessary for a person to leave a body behind , a body that must be buried in the ground or thrown into a fire ? |
| 25 | Is it really necessary for you to have no claim if you are indeed made redundant or treated unjustly at the time when the contract finishes ? |
| 26 | Is it really necessary for Mother to smell eternally of hens ? she wondered , and ushered her into the kitchen so that the unmistakable odour should not permeate her carefully prepared living-room . |
| 27 | I accept everything that has been said so far , but is it really necessary for the persons in question to be the subject of media coverage ? |
| 28 | Is it really suitable for your needs ? |
| 29 | Is it really acceptable for knowledge to be used for any goal ? |
| 30 | But is it really ready for an all-out assault of US cultural imperialism which will , as sure as Stalin followed Lenin , lead to more phoney romanticised visions of America 's mythical past and an enormous Eastern European identity crisis ? |