Example sentences of "[pron] it is [adv] [adj] for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There are many initiatives which it is more sensible for the Course as a whole to pick up than for individual fields and departments to plough a lone furrow . |
| 2 | Many young people in Gateshead have grown up in families in which it is very rare for someone to have a full-time , decent and well-paid job . |
| 3 | Stewart Island , the southern extremity of New Zealand , is a place that most Kiwis have never visited , but one which it is quite possible for PPLs to fly in to . |
| 4 | Obsessional neurosis is shown in the patient 's being occupied with thoughts in which he is in fact not interested , in his being aware of impulses which appear very strange to him and his being led to actions the performance of which give him no enjoyment but which it is quite impossible for him to omit . |
| 5 | Semantic memory can not work in this way , since in itself it is partly responsible for performing this function . |
| 6 | but believe me it is very necessary for keeping your pattern correct . |
| 7 | True , Kant thinks that if morality is ultimately valid it is because we have somehow settled on these imperatives ourselves at the noumenal level , but to this — apart from the dubiousness of the metaphysics — it is likely to be objected that if the imperatives spring from myself it is quite proper for me to rescind them when convenient . |
| 8 | He has to do what it is morally possible for him to do in the circumstances . |
| 9 | What it means is that as life ‘ is not a single straight line ’ he does what he thinks must be done and what it is morally possible for him to do in situations of moral dilemma . |