Example sentences of "[pron] it be [adj] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Daniel saw his wife coming towards the cubicle to offer comfort where he could n't he flailed his arms and drove her away , leaving Mrs Marriott to cry on , not even telling himself it was good for her to cry , since how could he know , how could he imagine ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But it is she who has created an atmosphere in which it is possible for her most senior minister to be publicly rubbished while she escapes without blemish or stain . |
| 6 | He lays down the only terms on which it is possible for him to take up residence with his people . |
| 7 | There are some solutions of the equations of general relativity in which it is possible for our astronaut to see a naked singularity : he may be able to avoid hitting the singularity and instead fall through a " wormhole " and come out in another region of the universe . |
| 8 | There are very few cases in which it is automatic for one relative to offer support and unproblematic for the other to accept it . |
| 9 | There some of the inhabitants commit some kind of sacrilege which it is hard for us now to decipher . |
| 10 | This produces a representation of a potential event ( that of the infinitive ) coinciding in time with another potentiality ( non-asserted dare or need ) , on which it is dependent for its actualization . |
| 11 | He told me it was important for me to understand he was a very big name in his own town . |
| 12 | I 'm not bothered Kath because er er as I look at it it 's more for me to put in front of him when I get to him |
| 13 | Doing that 's it it 's alright for him to do it ! |
| 14 | But I could n't let my mother be here , and then it was more for my brother because he had a wife and he it was more for him to be working than er for me really , cos I come to pension age then you see . |
| 15 | I do look at other women 's bodies ; I tell myself it 's good for me to know what ‘ ordinary ’ bodies look like . |
| 16 | What emerges from this example is that there can be situations of moral dilemma which impose limits on what it is possible for someone to do . |
| 17 | ‘ While a smile brightens up everyone 's looks , scientists also tell us it is good for our health because chemicals are produced which actually cheer us up , ’ said toothbrush makers Oral B , which organised the survey . |