Example sentences of "be [adj] for [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It had not been easy for him to gain readmission . |
| 32 | She took a step backwards , and suddenly he realized that it had n't been easy for her to come here . |
| 33 | Raynor paused , looking down into the half-closed eyes , and saw Grainne smile , and saw , as well , that despite her apparent tranquillity , she had been nervous , and that it had not been easy for her to come to his room . |
| 34 | It would have been easy for her to pass for a white girl . |
| 35 | It would have been easy for you to lose five pounds ’ worth of lead as you saddled up . |
| 36 | ‘ Without intimate knowledge of the business , it would have been easy for you to make an unintentional slip . |
| 37 | It would have been easy for anyone to reach in and yank a club out of the bag . ’ |
| 38 | Sally-Anne loved a dare , and Terry Rourke 's appeal had been frank and animal — he had excited her , and it had been simple for her to lie to her mother , to set out to go to a girlfriend 's home on the following afternoon and meet Terry instead . |
| 39 | But the evidence on which he should base his advice to me is the same evidence on which it would have been appropriate for me to form my own judgment . |
| 40 | This is Tuesday and it would have been appropriate for him to have raised this matter then . |
| 41 | But the working papers state that the list in the White Paper is not definitive , and that DHAs will be able to decide what core services are appropriate for them to maintain . |
| 42 | ‘ Oh , of course — the meeting to discuss the Christmas bazaar , ’ said Ianthe , remembering now that it would have been impossible for her to have had the quiet evening she had planned . |
| 43 | Her awareness of him was so intense that if his whole body had been dominating hers it would have been impossible for her to have felt more at the mercy of her own emotions . |
| 44 | It would surely have been impossible for anyone to stay morose when surrounded by all these excited , giggling children , and frankly , seeing the problems some of the handicapped youngsters had to contend with had made her horribly ashamed of her own self-absorption . |
| 45 | So er if you 're stuck for one to go to give them a call four double one two double two |
| 46 | So if you 're happy for them to use the tape okay . |
| 47 | business contacts that you 're happy for us to approach . |
| 48 | Erm they are left er a list of er a blank like this and say right you contracted to take the products now we want from , it 'll be this one say , now we want a list of advertisers who or prospec prospect businesses who you think you 're happy for us to approach for a start . |
| 49 | I 'll send up the chaps from the mortuary van if you 're ready for them to take him away . " |
| 50 | I think it 's ludicrous that there are some bands who are appropriate and some bands who are inappropriate for me to work with … |
| 51 | At school we were weighed regularly — at the beginning , middle and end of each term — and it had been customary for me to record my weight in my diary on all these occasions . |
| 52 | One of the things that has been hardest for me to deal with in coaching is runners who want to train for both the marathon and the mile at the same time . |
| 53 | It has always been hard for them to translate their music success into a sustained movie career . |
| 54 | It 's been good for me to sweat and toil — like a long therapy session ; honest manual work puts a lot of things in perspective . |
| 55 | Decide now what you really wanted to do , and what , with hindsight , would have been good for you to do or have . |
| 56 | It had been awkward for me to ask our family doctor to prescribe it : he knew my husband and I had parted some time ago . |
| 57 | It would have been better for her to have an abortion , but by the time she told her mother it was too late , so she kept the baby . |
| 58 | It would been better for him to keep kwiet . |
| 59 | In hindsight , it might have been better for him to have taken up the offer . |
| 60 | Would it not have been better for them to wait until the children came home for Christmas ? |