Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] is [adj] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reforms aimed at refashioning the welfare state , so that it acts as a floor on which the underclass can build by their own efforts , rather than a ceiling through which it is impossible for them to pass , are considered in Part IV . |
| 2 | Sometimes Bentham is represented as having held a significantly different view from that just described , according to which an action which it is right for me to do at any moment is either one which produces a greater surplus of pleasure over pain than any alternative action then open to me ( in which case it is the one right action ) or produces as great a surplus as any alternative ( in which case it is a right action ) , while all actions not thus right are wrong . |
| 3 | By s14(3) a person 's knowledge includes knowledge which he might reasonably have been expected to acquire from facts observable and ascertainable by him or from facts ascertainable by him with the help of medical or other appropriate expert advice which it is reasonable for him to seek . |
| 4 | He lays down the only terms on which it is possible for him to take up residence with his people . |
| 5 | There some of the inhabitants commit some kind of sacrilege which it is hard for us now to decipher . |