Example sentences of "it be [adj] for [pron] to accept " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's hard for him to accept that everyone is different in every aspect of their biology — men have different sperm counts just as they have different numbers of hairs on their head or different eye colours . |
| 2 | ‘ It is unreasonable for us to accept that it is commonplace for people like our Cabinet Ministers to have affairs , and yet to consider that someone like the Prince of Wales is unfit for the job . ’ |
| 3 | For people of my generation , children of the sixties , sex and freedom are so inextricably connected that it is difficult for us to accept that someone can be totally uninhibited in bed and still have a Reader 's Digest mentality . |
| 4 | The Jewish bodies turned the offer down flat , arguing that it was immoral for them to accept a loan which they had no reason to believe they would be able to repay . |
| 5 | Though we tacitly agreed not to tell my parents , it was difficult for me to accept . |
| 6 | She hesitated for a moment , a dim figure in the dark kitchen , distinguished by a brown balloon of a mob-cap and a coarse sacking apron which fell from her neck to her feet like a monstrous bib : it was hard for her to accept defeat . |