Example sentences of "that it was [adj] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had insisted on living in Auckland Castle though some people said that it was absurd for the Bishop of Durham to be saddled with such a pile . |
| 2 | Mr Laws contended that paragraph 16(2) did limit the doctor 's right to provide treatment by another deputy ; that it was legitimate for the FPC to take into account the doctor 's reasonable needs for time off duty for relaxation and rest , the advantages of continuity of patient care and the paragraph 16 obligation to give personal treatment . |
| 3 | Indeed , it is difficult to justify many of the cases where tapping is strongly suspected on the ground that it was necessary for the detection of really serious crime or to deal with major subversion , even allowing for the very wide definition of subversion announced by Lord Harris of Greenwich in 1975 when he said that |
| 4 | It is a defence to show that it was necessary for the defendant to enter the plaintiff 's land . |
| 5 | But this did not mean that it was impossible for the House of Commons to exercise some influence . |
| 6 | Amid mounting political and economic problems Attlee decided that it was impossible for the government to struggle on with its tiny majority . |
| 7 | Mr Justice Garland ruled last week that it was impossible for the former officers to receive a fair trial because of the saturation publicity that followed the release of the six , two years ago . |
| 8 | As the law requiring £40 landowners to take up knighthood was seldom observed , the sumptuary acts conceded that it was reasonable for the many men who did not choose to do so to adopt the dress appropriate to the standard of living they must certainly have enjoyed . |
| 9 | I was also satisfied that it was reasonable for the Bank to require the production of these documents . |
| 10 | In Evans v Elemeta Holdings Limited ( [ 1982 ] IRLR 143 ) , the EAT held that it was reasonable for an employee to refuse new terms which included an obligation to work potentially unlimited overtime . |
| 11 | John MacGregor , Secretary of State for Education , said yesterday that it was misleading for the union to say the Government had made a mistake . |
| 12 | The poet 's wife tried to avoid going , by saying that it was late for the child and that she would have expected her husband not to be curious . |
| 13 | Their Lordships held that it was insufficient for the immigration officer to show that he had some reasonable grounds for his action . |
| 14 | Ramsey realized that it was possible for a mind to inhabit a partly unreal world . |
| 15 | This talk , too , was very much influenced by French fashions and preoccupations ; and from it Zeinab acquired the notion that it was possible for a single woman to set up house on her own . |
| 16 | But more significantly the development and widespread availability of pre-designed packages , such as OCP ( the Oxford Concordance Package ) for concordance construction , and SPSS ( Statistical Package for Social Sciences ) for statistical analysis , meant that it was possible for the humanist to become more independent of the computing experts , and to operate with at most low-level assistance . |
| 17 | The Court 's position had not been made any easier by suggestions that it was possible for the Government to influence its decisions . |
| 18 | Their belief that it was possible for the individual to maintain a direct , unmediated relationship with the state made their position additionally vulnerable . |
| 19 | As well as the qualitative benefits brought about by greater accuracy and timeliness of information , the efficiency of the system meant that it was possible for the integration of the personnel records and wages departments to be achieved with a 40 per cent reduction in staff , natural wastage and redeployment within the organisation accounting for some 20 individuals . |
| 20 | He reminded North that it was possible for an American to disagree with him on that particular , ‘ and still love God , and still love this country just as much as you do ’ ; although He was regularly asked to do so , ‘ God does not take sides in American politics . ’ |
| 21 | As a further result women were subordinated sexually , because the change to patriliny and monogamy restricted the sexual freedom of the woman , in that it was essential for the man to know he was the father of her children . |
| 22 | Could anyone deny that it was unhealthy for a young man to become attached to a girl so early in life ? |
| 23 | When I spoke to some of these women alone much later I asked them why Asian women often reacted like this ; their answers were that it was good for a man 's Izzat . |
| 24 | Afterwards we all said that it was good for the game that the transplant of power which had begun at the Sydney Football Stadium in our bi-centennial year had taken so robustly . |
| 25 | Site value rating would tax ‘ the market rental of each site on the assumption that it was available for the most profitable permissible development ’ ( Layfield 1976 : 170 ) . |
| 26 | She leaned back in her chair whistling softly under her breath , then remembered that it was vulgar for a woman to whistle . |
| 27 | All were agreed that multiple homage was an aberration , displeasing to God ; but we may assume that it was rare for a man to refuse a good gift or a bargain on this account . |
| 28 | In re An Inquiry under the Company Securities ( Insider Dealing ) Act 1985 [ 1988 ] A.C. 660 was dealing with a different statute in an entirely different situation , where the journalist had a statutory right , subject to exceptions , to protect his sources of information , so that it was natural for the court , in evaluating a reasonable excuse under the Financial Services Act 1986 , to focus on that statutory right and its exceptions . |
| 29 | It added , perhaps with some irony , that there was always a situation of the world market in fuel and that it was natural for the Commission to receive bids in response to its invitations to tender . |
| 30 | It was that it was unfair for the single-person household to pay the same as the household with two , three , four or five members . |