Example sentences of "it is for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is another case which proves how vital it is for Attorney General Sir Nicholas Lyell to correct inconsistencies in sentencing . |
| 2 | I know it seems a little bit i idealistic , do n't know what the word is I want but it is for warning |
| 3 | Centralized government , Whitehall as the founder of all regulation and one party in perpetual power is an obvious recipe for incompetence , even more than it is for tyranny , although bureaucratic tyranny and arrogant assumptions of having no need to listen do produce threats of tyranny . |
| 4 | it is for equipment |
| 5 | We have to have some independent arguments about how easy or difficult it is for life to originate on a planet , before we can even begin to answer the question of how many other planets in the universe have life . |
| 6 | ‘ It is for government to regulate on behalf of the community , to set the standards and the environmental goals , ’ said Mr Patten emphatically . |
| 7 | It is for government to say it will not fund us adequately , not for us to go round saying it rather like a lot of sheep . |
| 8 | It is just as much an abuse of the process of the House for opposition to seek to talk out or filibuster , as it is for government to stifle opposition . |
| 9 | If you need to use that facility , and I emphasize that it is for emergency use only , your contact at Voice of America is Felix Klamin . ’ |
| 10 | When modern social anthropologists write about " primitive " peoples it is for want of a better vocabulary ; they could just as well be writing about " other " peoples . |
| 11 | It is for home . |
| 12 | It makes no difference whether it is for manumission or its content is pecuniary . |
| 13 | Many circumstances are made intolerable as it is for lack of sufficient respite services . |
| 14 | It is for instance often sufficient to take the supply price of the different kinds of raw materials used in any manufacture as ultimate facts , without analysing these supply prices into the several elements of which they are composed ; otherwise indeed the analysis would never end . |
| 15 | It is for instance a continuous and powerfully effective factor in the change of lexical meaning ; and as it happens , we have touched on a syntactic case in this very chapter , in the development of fixed relative order for classes of adjectives in prenominal position ( cf. , too , the emergence of " characteristic " and " occasion " values for prenominals and postnominals , respectively ) . |
| 16 | With this in mind it is for consideration whether such forms should not be redesigned to separate the disclaimer of liability on the part of the hospital from what really matters , namely the declaration by the patient of his decision with a full appreciation of the possible consequences , the latter being expressed in the simplest possible terms and emphasised by a different and larger type face , by underlining , the employment of coloured print or otherwise . |
| 17 | WHAT a tragedy it is for tennis that Dan Maskell ( right ) has gone . |
| 18 | Talk turns to a familiar theme — the failure of the city to support new ideas , the segregation of black and white music , how difficult it is for dance music to get substantial airplay — most of all the struggle to make the rest of the city sit up and take notice of its thriving techno scene . |
| 19 | It is suggested that this captures the core of what it is for conduct to be insulting . |
| 20 | They invite the reader to consider what police work is , how necessary it is for society today and even on occasion how , paradoxically , certain sorts of " good " police work can bring about evil . |
| 21 | I emphasise this point because popular topographical books still tend to suggest that any particular place is sited where it is for defence reasons , or because it is near a source of water . |
| 22 | International exposure is as much a requirement for cultural development as it is for sport ’ . |
| 23 | It is for Parliament to warrant the expenditure estimated to be needed , i.e. to grant supply . |
| 24 | Lord Strathclyde , the minister responsible , said : ‘ It is for parliament to decide the powers , functions and responsibilities of local government . ’ |
| 25 | But if this be the case it is for Parliament , not for the judiciary , to decide whether any changes should be made to the law as stated in the Acts , and , if so , what are the precise limits that ought to be imposed upon the immunity from liability for torts committed in the course of taking industrial action . |
| 26 | ‘ If this be the case it is for Parliament , not for the judiciary , to decide whether any changes should be made to the law as stated in the Acts . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ In the last analysis , therefore , it is for Parliament to decide the extent to which legal services are to be provided at public expense to meet the needs of the majority of the population . |
| 28 | It is for broadcasting authorities to determine what constitutes the appropriate degree of impartiality , and they must not lose sight of their obligation not to include in their programmes matter which is likely to encourage or incite crime or be offensive to public feeling . |
| 29 | The changes of the 1990s pose an urgent challenge for the whole personnel function in planning for recruitment and retention , pay flexibility and increased employee expectations , but it is for management development specialists , within the wider personnel function , constantly to remind task-driven managers of Metzger 's words , quoted by Glascott , ‘ people breathe life into programmes ’ ( Glascott , 1990 ) . |
| 30 | If freedom is made an absolute , as it is for example in the writings of Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek , such that it is impossible on intellectual grounds to place limits on the exercise of freedom , the result is an economic system shorn of justice . |