Example sentences of "it [be] wrong for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's wrong for us to steal from someone who seems to be richer than we are just as it 's wrong for someone to steal from us if they think their need is greater than ours . |
| 2 | It 's wrong for us to steal from someone who seems to be richer than we are just as it 's wrong for someone to steal from us if they think their need is greater than ours . |
| 3 | It 's wrong for you to be alone at a time like this . ’ |
| 4 | Now some of you were nodding there and some of you were smiling , it might be that you actually would quite like to say you know that I believe it 's wrong for people to be born disabled , handicapped . |
| 5 | And again it would have been it 's wrong for this room . |
| 6 | The use of long-stay hospitals for the care of the mentally handicapped stems from successive policies of containment pursued since the last century , and which have persisted into the 1980s despite the widespread understanding that it is wrong for mentally handicapped people , who are not ill and do not require advanced medical treatment , to spend their entire lives within the confines of a large establishment which is primarily concerned with medical treatment and the cure of the sick . |
| 7 | And that 's why it is wrong for women to be financially penalised when they have children . |
| 8 | Carling believes : ‘ It is wrong for people who no longer play to enforce changes on those who do . |
| 9 | It is wrong for a relatively well off professional person to do this with clients who may be on the bread-line . |
| 10 | They encapsulate the democratically arrived-at beliefs both that it is wrong for animals to suffer in such ways , and also that legislation will lead to an amelioration in the behaviour of farmers and poachers . |
| 11 | It may be suggested that he may simply qualify somewhat and say that it is wrong for others to tell such lies and not for him , and that there is no purely logical inconsistency here . |
| 12 | This suggests , I think , that I must refine my earlier criterion in the following way : it is wrong for a person to be treated as a means to the satisfaction of another 's desire , and only allowable for them to be treated , with their consent , as a means to the satisfaction of another 's needs , if no other means for their satisfaction can be made available . |
| 13 | It has been argued that it is wrong for such a body to impose even a limited check on the activities of an elected Government . |
| 14 | ‘ In every way it is wrong for you to be here ! ’ |
| 15 | We will not support the Government 's proposals in relation to the maintenance of quality in higher education because we think that it is wrong for the people who determine quality in higher education to be the same as those who determine funding — |
| 16 | It is wrong for any local authority not to take into account people 's ability to pay . |
| 17 | Surely all hon. Members would argue that it is wrong for the industry to be able to target young people . |
| 18 | It is wrong for any realistic person to pursue such outmoded attitudes , especially anyone in government . |
| 19 | Equally , it is wrong for a slightly-built woman to swing a big , heavy club . |
| 20 | But Saunders argues that it is wrong for feminists to draw from this the idea that home is a place of relaxation for men or a setting for the systematic exploitation of women . |
| 21 | A resolution , to be put to the national conference of the National Federation of Retail Newsagents in Llandudno , suggests it is wrong for ‘ agent provocateurs ’ children sent for cigarettes by adults to be used to trap shopkeepers . |
| 22 | When it is wrong for their particular purposes then we get the blame for it . |
| 23 | Peter Preston , editor of The Guardian , said his newspaper 's main aim was to get the European court to rule that it was wrong for the Government to use injunctions to prevent publication of such material , on the questions of principle and cost . |
| 24 | Lord Ennals , Labour health spokesman , said it was wrong for people not directly concerned to deny others ‘ on the basis of a doctrine ’ the benefits of carefuly controlled research . |
| 25 | So while it was wrong for the IRA to let off bombs in Northern Ireland it was quite all right for the DGSE to let them off in New Zealand . |
| 26 | If it was wrong for us to acknowledge our love while Dennis was alive , it would be even more wrong to deny it now . |
| 27 | In a fine speech that preceded the president 's , Colin Powell , the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff , said in essence that it was wrong for servicemen to hold back respect for their commander-in-chief simply because of what he did long ago . |
| 28 | It was wrong for her to become obsessed with Fred 's inadequacy in the bedroom , Carrie told herself . |
| 29 | The Judge held that the prosecution had been under a duty to disclose the video whether it had been demanded or not , that the view the camera had was of an area of the club that was relevant to the res gestae , that the tape would have contained matters of relevance to the defendants and that it was wrong for the police officer to have formed the view that it was of no relevance . |
| 30 | It was wrong for him to know . |