Example sentences of "it is [adj] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is paramount for us now to retain high interest rates , which are high in the historic sense , in real terms , and are high compared with Japan , and with America , where they stand at 5 per cent . |
| 2 | ‘ In Italy young women live with their families ; it is unheard-of for them to leave home . ’ |
| 3 | The fact that growing numbers of students are making the personal decision to go into higher education each year suggests strongly that our system of student support , far from providing a deterrent , is encouraging more people to go into higher education , who perhaps would not have had the confidence to do so or the belief that it is appropriate for them . |
| 4 | Barbara has always known what emotion it is appropriate for her to feel . |
| 5 | That being so , it is appropriate for us to act in a similar way . |
| 6 | It is inherent in it and inseparable from it ( Draper 1977 , pp. 484–5 ) . |
| 7 | If it is suitable for you , your doctor might suggest Hormone Replacement Therapy HRT to relieve the symptoms . |
| 8 | If it is suitable for you , your doctor might suggest Hormone Replacement Therapy ( HRT ) to relieve the symptoms . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , it is good of you , dear , it really is . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It is good of you to save Ernestine the trouble of the stairs , mon cher . |
| 11 | The experience of tragic art confirms that the relation of pleasure and awareness is two-way ; if a welcoming of the sharpest awareness of things from which we most deeply recoil , without any reservations of the sort of ‘ This hurts but it is good for me ’ , can make even the fate of Lear or Oedipus enjoyable , it would seem that there can be no involuntary quickening of awareness without joy . |
| 12 | It is good for me to get out and do the shopping ; I enjoy that bit of fresh air every day , and it is something I have got to do because this is when I meet people . |
| 13 | That is why I think it is good for me to go back to Scotland to remember that there is a world outside London and television . |
| 14 | Commitment to sport has to be freely given ; it has to be fun ; it can not be foisted on to the poor or the wayward from above because it is good for them . |
| 15 | They do it so rarely that it is good for them . |
| 16 | The daily ritual of meal-times , for example , may often contain a wealth of deliberately and non-deliberately imparted information for the child , in part confirming his status as a child ( children should be seen and not heard , children should finish their cabbage because it is good for them ) , in part defining the stages of growing up ( older children sit on ‘ proper ’ chairs , drink out of ‘ proper ’ cups , and use knives and forks ) , and in part defining and reinforcing certain adult identities ( father carves the joint , mother brings food from the stove ) . |
| 17 | Do n't buy a hard bed in the mistaken belief that it is good for you . |
| 18 | The common-sense view of sleep is that it is good for you , providing an opportunity for recovery from fatigue , is essential for growth , and crucial in cure from illness . |
| 19 | call it , it is good for you , natural bar |
| 20 | It is good , it is good for you . |
| 21 | Save the rainforest because it is good for us . |
| 22 | It is typical of him to assert , as Judaism does roundly , that all work is honourable ; and deny that the reliance on special work and destiny ( ‘ God 's work ’ ) elevates a man per se . |
| 23 | It is foolhardy for you to play around with your dog 's diet when he is known to have had urolithiasis . |
| 24 | There is no shortage of advice available to local authorities to enable them to decide whether , in uncertain circumstances , it is politic for them to seek to start proceedings , whether criminal or civil . |
| 25 | It is essential for us to improve the funeral profession 's awareness of the benefits of embalming and I would urge that the Members of this Institute , through the offices of public relations continue to provide platforms to promote the Science of Embalming . |
| 26 | Perhaps it is used to us picking out its feet , and filing them , and yet it will not stand still for the farrier . |
| 27 | Prices are so low in the market because there is such a bumper crop that it is simply not worth them harvesting , as a result it is rational for them er just to leave the apples um , pears and what have you on , on the trees . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But Yanek said , " I have thought about it , Grandfather , and I think it is right for me to go . " |
| 30 | I think it is right for me to receive the report and then to examine it . |