Example sentences of "it is for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The argument also assumes ( b ) that I can understand what it is for others to have mental states . |
| 32 | Not surprisingly therefore , the results of the 1983 survey show that mass unemployment ‘ has created a serious new risk of what can only be regarded as downward social mobility — and that risk is much greater for men in working class positions , by whatever route they come into them , than it is for others ’ ( p. 17 ) . |
| 33 | Starting and staying in business is more difficult for certain types of people than it is for others . |
| 34 | The most familiar description perhaps is that given by Lord Wright in Davies v Powell Duffryn Associated Collieries Ltd ( No 2 ) [ 1942 ] AC 601 at p611 : It is not a claim which the deceased could have pursued in his own lifetime because it is for damages suffered not by himself , but by his family after his death . |
| 35 | It is for Members themselves to raise matters of privilege . |
| 36 | We all know how difficult it is for members of the security forces and their families , and we should now be aware that they are at risk all the time . |
| 37 | Is n't it , but you do n't you think that 's more so for females than it is for males , the fact that it is such a dirty thing that , that applies more to females than it does , to males ? |
| 38 | Further in relation to females , wastage is considerably more difficult to explain when using student characteristics , than it is for males . |
| 39 | It is for home . |
| 40 | It makes no difference whether it is for manumission or its content is pecuniary . |
| 41 | I can not over-emphasise how important it is for cyclists , that any barrier should allow enough room to pass through without dismounting . |
| 42 | A recent report published by the EOC revealed how difficult it is for girls in YTP . |
| 43 | Parents generally worry less about the sexual behaviour of their sons , and teaching boys about sex and contraception is sometimes considered less crucial than it is for girls . |
| 44 | How easy or difficult it is for girls to tell their parents that they are pregnant also depends on how accustomed they are to confiding in their mothers or fathers about periods , boyfriends , sex and contraception . |
| 45 | Many circumstances are made intolerable as it is for lack of sufficient respite services . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | 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 ) . |
| 48 | Therefore it is no more satisfactory for Muslims or anyone else to have a syllabus which does not mention Allah anywhere than it is for Jesus , God and the Bible to be omitted . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | It is for refugees in Britain that I am writing to ask for your help . |
| 51 | Frankly , having spent two days looking at how different it is for Nirvana right now — or rather , how it was six weeks ago — I found it difficult not to . |
| 52 | WHAT a tragedy it is for tennis that Dan Maskell ( right ) has gone . |
| 53 | With its last-minute cop-out ending , it is for Professor Robin Wood an impressive failure , an ‘ incoherent text ’ . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | It is suggested that this captures the core of what it is for conduct to be insulting . |
| 56 | This is more of an illusion than it is for Britain because there is even less semblance in the US of centralised , national government . |
| 57 | On Europe , to put it beyond all doubt in this House , in the country , and on the continent , will my right hon. Friend reaffirm that it is the policy of Her Majesty 's Government that Britain shall not go down the route of a federal Europe and that it is for Britain to decide on the future of her own currency ? |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | The more distant in time an issue is to current industry concerns , the more difficult it is for managers to establish that it applies to their business in some significant way ( relevancy ) and that it should be addressed now ( urgency ) . |
| 60 | Though it 's no more in character for her to do it than it is for Alex . |