Example sentences of "but it be [adj] for them " in BNC.
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1 | Clearly this is no place for novices but it is possible for them , if armed with a torch and wearing boots and clothes that do n't matter , to go into one hole and emerge from the other , the two entrance passages converging after fifteen yards of stumbling progress . |
2 | The pixel data may be in 8-bit binary words , but it is common for them to be 7-bit binary words , to preserve the capability of 7-bit transmission or coded as ascii hex characters , ie. , 0–9 and a-f , thus also preserving printability . |
3 | Producing elisions is something which foreign learners do not need to learn to do , but it is important for them to be aware that when native speakers of English talk to each other , quite a number of phonemes that the foreigner might expect to hear are not actually pronounced . |
4 | Social researchers wish to establish clear findings from their work but it is natural for them to want to stretch or overplay the evidence . |
5 | But it 's natural for them to lick a wound . |
6 | As Barth once put it , he and Brunner were like the elephant and the whale : both were God 's creatures , but it was impossible for them to meet ! |