Example sentences of "thought it was [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than four-fifths of non-executives thought it was undesirable for one person to be both chairman and chief executive . |
| 2 | ‘ We thought it was stupid for him to fly all the way back to the UK and then find that we had a problem with Jones , ’ said Lions ' manager Geoff Cooke . |
| 3 | ‘ We thought it was stupid for him to fly all the way back to the UK and then find that we had a problem with Jones , ’ said Lions ' manager Geoff Cooke . |
| 4 | Being medieval , she thought it was unsuitable for the church to be visibly glittering , but , if the pews and the brass were n't polished , it quickly looked sad and Anna did not like it to look sad . |
| 5 | A lot more people got in , and at St Paul 's , just when Alice thought it was impossible for more to get in , five did . |
| 6 | Ingleton School is a Church of England junior and infant school and Mr Boocock said he thought it was appropriate for the issue of the church 's role in education to be discussed in church . |
| 7 | He thought it was good for the RISC environment but he 's content with the Windows solution Univel is adopting for the Intel environment , which is apparently on the brink of shipping . |
| 8 | Univel Inc president Joel Applebaum last month said in an interview that the Sun Microsystems Inc WABI Windows Application Binary Interface ‘ is not baked yet ’ : he thought it was good for the RISC environment but he 's content with the Windows system that Univel Inc is adopting for the iAPX-86 environment which it is apparently on the brink of shipping ; meanwhile , Univel says it is selling into Europe , South America and the Middle East . |
| 9 | I thought it was good for us . |
| 10 | They thought it was normal for Lucy ( they had never called her Mummy ) to fly from room to room looking for her watch , keys , diary , gloves , scarf , and blow a kiss to them from the garden path as the taxi-driver carried her cello out to the car , while Nissy held them up to the window to wave . |
| 11 | We tested this out by taking it around the office and the people in the office thought it was a bit boring we er thought it was great for the youngsters who probably like it so er erm and the merchandise we 've actually , we 've made up certain things , T-shirts and , and , and wacky items that again er relate to , to young people so that they get into the , the , the theme of the thing and the , the whole year carries forward on a , on a certain colour theme and , and , and so on , so er we 've done our best as sailing coaches not only learning to be marketeers again the money , where 's the money come from ? |
| 12 | He thought it was reasonable for them not to provide night care even now and essential for them to have a night sleeper for seven nights a week from this time on . |
| 13 | He thought it was easy for a newcomer to acquire school and institutional business because there was always someone on the lookout for improved service . |
| 14 | I thought it was kingly for some time . |
| 15 | Traditional values still hold sway as 86pc of Ulster youngsters thought it was important for a couple to marry before having children , when the national average was 72pc . |
| 16 | I thought it was uncalled for . |
| 17 | Nails thought it was bad for him which ever way . |
| 18 | He thought it was bad for people to get what they wanted . |
| 19 | They thought it was bad for children to have an ending like that . ’ |