Example sentences of "it [be] for [det] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 It is for each LEA to construct its own policies in respect of discretionary awards .
2 Local education authorities have considerable flexibility to provide additional assistance to small primary schools , through the small school protection factor , but it is for each authority to devise its own scheme and to choose its priorities within that scheme in the light of local needs .
3 With around 700 people a year dying in house fires , doctors from Cardiff Royal Infirmary stress how important it is for all homes to have smoke detectors .
4 The measures which we can use include indications that the animal is failing to cope with its environment ( with the difficulties which it encounters ) and measures of how hard it is for that individual to cope with the difficulties .
5 Subject , however , to the help of the court in these various ways , the basic principle underlying the preparation and presentation of a party 's case in the High Court in England is that it is for that party to obtain and present the evidence which he needs by his own means , provided always that such means are lawful in the country in which they are used .
6 And Dr Neil and Matey — Miss Mates — taught me so much about … life … so much that is useful … and I learned how hard it is for most people to live even halfway decent lives … and now I am home again . ’
7 It is extraordinary that it is easier for the EC to export to Hungary , Czechoslovakia and Poland than it is for those countries to export to the EC .
8 The level of provisions ‘ demonstrates the immense damage which is done by extreme economic cycles and just how important it is for this country to strive to secure steady growth on a low-inflationary basis ’ .
9 Accordingly , it is for this court to consider the application of article 10 to the question whether a local authority may sue for libel ; and in my judgment Morland J. was wrong not to do so .
10 He misinterpreted the Act and he failed to allow himself to have the jurisdiction to deal in a flexible manner with the children , which is the whole purpose of the Act , and consequently it is for this court to make the order that it appears Judge Galpin would have liked to have made and felt impeded from so doing .
11 Mr Major replied : ‘ It is for this House to decide by its vote on the third reading whether to approve the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill and enable the Government to ratify the treaty .
12 International law recognised that it was for each state to determine the conditions upon which it granted its nationality to ships , subject to there being a genuine link between the flag state and the vessel .
13 The reminiscing continued — the deaths of friends , one man marching alone through the night , the terrible hard labour it was for some men to die , night marches from one safe house to another , the rain , the wet , the damp , the cold of waiting for an ambush in one place for hours .
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