Example sentences of "[conj] it be [adj -er] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Boro boss added : ‘ Forwards are at the sharp end , especially away from home , where it is harder for them . |
| 2 | Where it 's easier for you to walk . |
| 3 | ‘ Not really because it seems to do any good but just because the thinking is that it 's better for him than other commercial products , ’ says Kathleen . |
| 4 | I think we 're all agreed that it 's better for us to die honourably together in this way than to risk a worse fate at the hands of the enemy . " |
| 5 | ‘ I was just saying that it 's easier for me than it would be for your average Englishman . |
| 6 | In the fourth Gospel Jesus tells his followers , heart-broken because he is going to leave them , that it is better for them that he should do so : |
| 7 | Anselm 's definition is seen as part of a clever philosophical con trick whereby he argues that it is greater for something to exist than not to exist , and thereby that the definition of God ( as the greatest thing conceivable ) demands that He exist ! |
| 8 | We know that it is easier for your body to tolerate the habit if you also eat well but many do not . |
| 9 | A few are ‘ trying out ’ policing by joining the reserves first , although the common view amongst the reserve police is that it is harder for them to transfer to the regulars than it is for someone without experience to sign up straight away because of the greater number of reasons the police authorities are thereby given for turning them down . |
| 10 | Harriet Tremayne , her mother , had been strongly against this , but Tom , her husband , a charming , indolent and indulgent man , had argued , with a certain degree of logic , that ‘ the girl had to do some kind of war work ’ and that it was better for her ‘ to do something she had set her heart on ’ . |
| 11 | Eileen 's commanding officer took them to a room and gave them tea , and tried to explain to them that it was better for her to remain . |
| 12 | He drove them to the station and they returned , sad for their sister and still not convinced that it was better for her not to come home . |
| 13 | The argument is that it was easier for them to maintain the part of their image of statelessness which consisted of ‘ how we have always done things ’ , than it would have been if they had individually moved into town and settled into a bidonville . |
| 14 | The teacher can remain facing the class , so it is easier for him to maintain attention . |
| 15 | But of course , you are n't out to trap me into matrimony , so it is easier for you to be frank . |
| 16 | I need , at the moment in terms of corrective action on quiffs , I am sending quiffs out to procedure owners , and I need to know whether suggestive procedure changes or not , and it 's better for me if it is out in that order then I can go through and mark the quiffs off as being erm the changes or not . |
| 17 | ‘ I did pick up a lot of younger listeners with the early evening shows and it 's harder for them to tune in now , which I regret , but , without wanting to sound melodramatic , I would have done myself a mischief if I 'd carried on and I already feel better . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I did pick up a lot of younger listeners with the early evening shows and it 's harder for them to tune in now , which I regret , but , without wanting to sound melodramatic , I would have done myself a mischief if I 'd carried on and I already feel better . ’ |
| 19 | If he has not done much gardening before , you can work together , so that you can enjoy sharing the tasks , and it is easier for you to assess when the patient has had enough . |
| 20 | But my mother came first is n't it and it was easier for me . |
| 21 | Well if it 's better for you I should . |
| 22 | So it but it was easier for you to go home if you wanted to I suppose . |
| 23 | As we shall see in the next chapter , there are those who believe that management have often adopted forms of work organisation which give rise to unsatisfying jobs because it is cheaper for them so to do . |
| 24 | He said but unfortunately because he 's boisterous , which he is and because it 's easier for them with their numbers to let him just get away with it or say oh Martin go outside we ca n't , you know , then then he was n't learning |
| 25 | I want to support him , I am doing so , even if he refuses to acknowledge that just now because it 's easier for him to bear what has happened if he pretends it is me who is more broken than he . |
| 26 | Her guides would have lemon squash because it was better for them and less expensive . |
| 27 | It 's not my family you know , ’ because it was better for her to stop . |