Example sentences of "that it was [adv] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also submitted that it was essential that a jury should reach a rational conclusion by a rational process of thought , and he further submitted that it was wholly irrational for them in effect to hold that the first appellant did not act in concert with the second appellant , but that the second appellant acted in concert with the first appellant . |
| 2 | The problem was that it was theoretically possible for someone to introduce poison gas into a remote and perhaps unguarded part of the system and for the noxious fumes to be carried through to the General-Secretary 's apartments or office . |
| 3 | Morland J. accepted the submission of Mr. Newman for the council that the Manchester Corporation case was decided per incuriam , in that it was theoretically possible for a local authority to be guilty of corruption under sections 1 and 7 of the Public Bodies Corrupt Practices Act 1889 ( 52 & 53 Vict. c. 69 ) . |
| 4 | Life in Parma at the beginning of the school year seemed normal apart from the Fascist propaganda in the papers , but one began to sense that the members of the Party were becoming even more arrogant and domineering than before , and that it was increasingly important for people with different ideas to keep them to themselves and never to discuss politics . |
| 5 | While they lived in la Sologne it never occurred to either of them that it was even possible for people like themselves to study music and become professional musicians . |
| 6 | One incident that has stuck with me was when he played us the Queen of the Night 's aria from The Magic Flute , telling us that it was notoriously difficult for singers as the top note reached ‘ F in alt ’ . |
| 7 | Such was the general level of knowledge , that it was easily possible for a treasure hunter to know more about the subject than someone claiming to be an archaeologist . |
| 8 | Hanna showed that it was mathematically possible for such vortices to form under the right surface , wind and stability conditions and that such vortices would have the right sort of diameter , about 2 or 3 km ( I-2 miles ) , to explain the spacing of the dunes . |
| 9 | It is sufficient that it was partly responsible for the damage . |
| 10 | that it was equally essential for the rich to cease to patronize and exploit the poor . |
| 11 | Matza would clearly be wrong , on the other hand , if he were implying that it was inherently impossible for a corrective stance to acknowledge the ‘ patent tenability and durability of deviant enterprise ’ . |
| 12 | Under the Angevins , it has been argued , ‘ the legal relationship between a king of France and a king of England who held territories on the continent meant that it was relatively easy for the king of France to legitimize his own actions as part of a legal process ’ . |
| 13 | Emily had read a lot of magazines , she knew that it was perfectly possible for a girl with Nan 's looks to rise to be the highest in the land . |
| 14 | Consequently , the idea began to spread that it was perfectly proper for Christians to be involved with pop and rock music . |
| 15 | I appreciate that it was extremely difficult for you to decide what to do in the circumstances of some hon. Members being unable to get into the House . |
| 16 | Romanian propaganda could not entirely disguise the fact that it was somewhat unusual for the wife of the president to hold high office herself . |
| 17 | Neil Kinnock advanced the extraordinarily lame and inaccurate excuse that it was always difficult for Oppositions in mid-term , but no one was really deceived . |
| 18 | ‘ I saw you in the High Street the other day , ’ he would say , in a tone that suggested that it was quite impossible for Henry to have seen him . |
| 19 | Phillips , Chang and Buzzell ( 1983 ) also showed that it was quite possible for there to be several different degrees of differentiation . |
| 20 | It kept the Navigation Acts up to date , but under Walpole 's premiership in the 1720s and 1730s it passed so little legislation of any general application even within Britain that it was quite natural for it to do nothing about the colonies . |
| 21 | The White Paper accepted that it was sometimes necessary for whole categories of documents to remain secret but felt that the existence of such categories should be reviewed every 20 years . |
| 22 | They were both so caught up in developments at Crystal Springs that it was sometimes hard for Christina to recall that Stephen still had a stake in a totally separate business empire in England — one that Robert seemed to be finding increasingly hard to administer in his partner 's prolonged absence , though Stephen still kept a very firm grip on English events from Barbados . |
| 23 | It was stressed that it was vitally important for those going to work in other countries to have training in the cross- cultural dimension . |
| 24 | So good that it was almost impossible for him to forget anything . |
| 25 | The thought passed through Theodora 's mind that it was almost impossible for a Bishop to enter a room other than dramatically . |
| 26 | One possibility was " to write off the Shah and proceed on the unpalatable consumption that Mosadeq is the indisputable ruler of Persia and the only bulwark against Communism " In the end , however , the prime minister advisers decided that it was almost prudent for Britain to follow the American line . |
| 27 | But she knew from experience that it was as dangerous for policemen to speak honestly to the public as for members of the royal family . |
| 28 | She regretted that it was too dark for him to see how beautiful she had tried to make herself , even using malachite as well as the usual galena . |
| 29 | Forrestal was a believer in the theory that it was too dangerous for atomic weapons to be manufactured and stored in the United Kingdom , where they could be overrun in a Soviet invasion of Western Europe . |
| 30 | The river Exe on the outskirts of Exeter was so high that it was too dangerous for trains to use bridges and flooding closed two other lines . |