Example sentences of "[pron] is [adj] for [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But some plants actually prefer varying degrees of shade , which is fortunate for gardeners choosing plants for gloomy corners or the dappled shade beneath trees . |
| 2 | This is a comprehensive slide collection of illustrators ' work , which is open for clients to visit and from which they can select the illustrators ' work , which is open for clients to visit and from which they can select the illustrators they consider to be most suitable for a particular job . |
| 3 | This is a comprehensive slide collection of illustrators ' work , which is open for clients to visit and from which they can select the illustrators ' work , which is open for clients to visit and from which they can select the illustrators they consider to be most suitable for a particular job . |
| 4 | The Science and Technology Directorate ‘ will badger governments into giving more money to [ educational ] institutions … it is futile for governments to spend money to increase industry 's competitiveness ’ it is better spent on projects in educational institutions . |
| 5 | One is a problem of content : it is appropriate for feminists to celebrate their diverse sexual choices ( lesbianism or spinsterhood , for instance ) but not , perhaps , to reduce ourselves to body parts ( I would have problems referring to myself approvingly as a cunt , or even as a slut , since I would rather challenge the necessity for a linguistic category of ‘ unchaste ’ women than embrace it with joy ) . |
| 6 | ‘ It is appropriate for spectators to applaud successful strokes in proportion to difficulty but excessive demonstrations by a player or his partisans are not proper because of the possible effect upon other competitors . |
| 7 | ‘ I believe it is good for artists to teach students . |
| 8 | It is good for children to respond to good contemporary works , written both for children and for adults . |
| 9 | It is prudent for negotiators to set objectives during the preparation stage . |
| 10 | Given this pattern of repeat business , and of agents who have a collection round which week after week includes the same customers , it is typical for customers to start another check when they have paid off the one before . |
| 11 | This appears , sadly , to be the situation in many countries , and suggestions like the one from the WHO document Social and health aspects of sexually transmitted disease ( 1977 ) that ‘ it is essential for clinics to have the basic equipment required for making rapid diagnosis : the darkfield examination , a quick micro-flocculation test for syphilis , and smear and culture of specimens for gonorrhoea ’ are not much use to a health worker in a village in India , who , far from considering buying a microscope , can not obtain the antibiotics needed to cure gonorrhoea had he the facilities for diagnosing it . |
| 12 | It is essential for departments to pull together , talk to each other and be in no doubt as to the others ' requirements . |
| 13 | In some instances it is essential for students to have access to automatically processed information in connection with their academic work , particularly involving the use of the computer terminals . |
| 14 | It is essential for archaeologists to approach their subject without personal or political prejudice , since past and present governments have not been averse to misusing archaeological data for nationalistic purposes . |
| 15 | It is essential for banks to remain active in this market in order to keep abreast of market developments and to be seen as a taker/supplier of interbank funds . |
| 16 | Mr Vaz said last night : ‘ It is illegal for Catholics to get married there . |
| 17 | Surely , it is better for judges to do what Lord Taylor says the press fail to do , and weigh individual circumstances rather than some abstract impression of public mood . |
| 18 | If this is the case , it is better for employees to know and understand this before going abroad rather than to go out with high hopes only to return to Britain dispirited . |
| 19 | In order to learn the conventional ways in which subject matter is organised and presented in these different forms , it is necessary for children to have plenty of opportunities to read or hear read good examples of a range of different types of texts . |
| 20 | In practice , it is standard for agreements to seek to exclude any liability for pre-contractual representations by including entire agreement provisions under which the acquirer confirms that it is not relying on any representations , etc. other than those included in the agreement . |
| 21 | It is usual for companies to reimburse travel costs incurred by the employee and immediate family during the move . |
| 22 | Briefing on this topic should cover the incidence of crime , whether it is usual for expatriates to employ security staff and , if so , when such staff should be on duty , and procedures for dealing with the police . |
| 23 | Although it is usual for expatriates to rent housing abroad , some company compensation packages allow for property to be purchased . |
| 24 | It is usual for trustees to seek counter indemnities from other shareholders , or the beneficiaries , or to limit the liability of the trust to the trust assets , in these circumstances . |
| 25 | It is usual for governments to engage in such consultation , but it is not yet a convention of the Constitution that they do so . |
| 26 | It argues that it is impractical for countries to protect their interests by patenting plant species . |
| 27 | But it is disingenuous for academics to pretend that they can participate in such discussion on terms of complete equality with their students , for there are questions of power and authority involved ; at the end of the day , grades and marks , assessing and examining , come into the picture . |
| 28 | It is impossible for families living on such plots to make a living . |
| 29 | Because we know that there is a substantial input of deleterious mutations to populations , and that it is impossible for individuals to combine indefinitely high survival and fertility , both the optimality and the mutation-accumulation explanations of senescence must apply . |
| 30 | It is impossible for words to express my fixed determination of alleviating this evil — even to the small extent of one neighbourhood only — were it only possible . ’ |