Example sentences of "it was [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think that one could have a consensus with that regard , I mean people were split really on that issue erm as I have said , personally I was always against the whole thing , against the war in general between Iraq and Iran because it was devastating for both countries . |
| 2 | Of the forty who had participated in further education , 27 said it was beneficial for what they were now doing . |
| 3 | Dot hoped it was nice for Baby in there . |
| 4 | He was n't a very good poet , I do n't think , but it was nice for him to see his poems printed for once . |
| 5 | I was particularly thrilled with the guys who scored the points for us on the final day , Mark James , Jose-Maria Olazabal , Jose-Maria Canizares , Ronan Rafferty and Christy O'Connor Jnr. , because in the case of Canizares , Ronan and Christy they had n't scored a point in the games they played and it was nice for them to take some of the glory . |
| 6 | so there was nothing going to waste and it was nice for me because once we 'd said goodbye I just had ten minutes , quarter of hour drive home |
| 7 | It was legal for landowners to seize and take to specified headmen or the village committee headquarters cattle which were found straying on cultivated or fenced land . |
| 8 | Rented accommodation other than corporation or NIHT houses was rapidly diminishing , since it was uneconomic for landlords to maintain rent-controlled housing . |
| 9 | It was boring for them and now they go out they spend some time er amongst each other and they have time to chat around . |
| 10 | It was better for both of them that she should . |
| 11 | When the headmaster telephoned the boy 's father , he was told by that unusually permissive parent that , if the teachers could not hold his son 's attention , it was better for the boy to educate himself at home . |
| 12 | Herbert had at first been reluctant to believe that it was better for John to study dance in Cape Town than to return to high school in Johannesburg . |
| 13 | Her guides would have lemon squash because it was better for them and less expensive . |
| 14 | The parents decided it was better for the child to be taken away . ’ |
| 15 | Harriet Tremayne , her mother , had been strongly against this , but Tom , her husband , a charming , indolent and indulgent man , had argued , with a certain degree of logic , that ‘ the girl had to do some kind of war work ’ and that it was better for her ‘ to do something she had set her heart on ’ . |
| 16 | On each of her periods at Hillmarden he had still clung to the faint hope that she was improving , only to find at the end of a week or a fortnight she had made no progress at all and that when Harry — good baby that he was — occasionally cried , this was enough to make Celia so distraught that Brian was forced to accept that it was better for all concerned if mother and baby remained parted . |
| 17 | That he was not abstracting water but merely utilizing it and returning to the river the same amount in improved condition , because contact with the turbine had aerated it , and it was better for the fish . |
| 18 | It was better for you not to come . |
| 19 | But I said it was better for him if he did n't go back . ’ |
| 20 | She also felt somewhat pleased , feeling that it was better for Mrs Aggie to concentrate her collecting efforts in the nicer part of the town . |
| 21 | ‘ It was better for me 'ealth down 'ere , ’ said Dolly , the bedroom getting smaller as more of the family spilled in . |
| 22 | ‘ Usually , south of the Trent it was better for batting . |
| 23 | It was better for capitalism that offenders should be incarcerated and set to productive work ( whose profits would , naturally , be pocketed by the capitalist class in the usual manner ) . |
| 24 | ( 2 ) ( a ) The justices were under a duty to consider whether it was better for the child for a secure accommodation order to be made rather than no order at all being made upon the application ( in accordance with section 1(5) of the Children Act 1989 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ The justices were under a duty to consider whether it was better for the child for a secure accommodation order to be made rather than no order at all being made upon the application in accordance with section 1(5) of the Children Act . |
| 26 | Her mother thought it was better for her not to be at home as there was not much space , so the following week they saw the social worker and it was arranged that she go to a house run by the Catholic anti-abortion organisation LIFE . |
| 27 | She said she had held the document back for so long because she was afraid it would re-open old wounds for my mother and because she felt sure it was better for us not to know what it contained . ’ |
| 28 | Eileen 's commanding officer took them to a room and gave them tea , and tried to explain to them that it was better for her to remain . |
| 29 | He drove them to the station and they returned , sad for their sister and still not convinced that it was better for her not to come home . |
| 30 | He reckoned that it was better for the new Iranian prime minister , Shapour Bakhtiar , that the Shah stayed in Muslim country and he thought that Hasans influence would help " keep Khomeini under control " |