Example sentences of "it [modal v] be [adj] for him " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It may be impossible for him to get home in just a few months . ’ |
| 2 | It may be feasible for him to move into a separate sitting room for day-time activities , if the access is not difficult . |
| 3 | The seller can give his instructions to the person in actual possession of the goods , but it may be difficult for him to discover who that is , if , for example , the goods are on the railways . |
| 4 | John loved beautiful things , she felt sure ; it must be painful for him to live in such surroundings , perhaps humiliating too for him to have her realise that this was all he could afford to live in . |
| 5 | He 's learning to row a coracle but he keeps going round in circles , it must be tiresome for him when he 's used to going in straight lines . |
| 6 | But it must be tiresome for him to have you constantly tagging at his heels all the time . ’ |
| 7 | His reasoning seems to be that where there is smoke , there must be the old woman ( who carries their fire ) : therefore it must be safe for him to follow ( pp. 26 – 7 ) . |
| 8 | " It must be hard for him . " |
| 9 | I feel sure he must already know , since it 's his ship , but it might be good for him to realise that persons of influence , like yourself , who might report him , also knew . |
| 10 | He rang the bell and when he was greeted by a rather surly butler he enquired , very politely , if it might be possible for him to speak with the Signora Calvino on a matter of the utmost urgency . |
| 11 | One boy said he could not help using Creole even though he thought it might be bad for him : MS Do you agree with your mother that speaking Patois can hold you back ? |
| 12 | Oh it 'd be better for him to put that fire on at night time and go over in the morning and switch it off . |
| 13 | It 'd be natural for him to meet Maggie . ’ |
| 14 | It would been better for him to keep kwiet . |
| 15 | His mother had been crying as she had rifled the house for money for him , and as she had made sandwiches to put in greaseproof paper because it would be dangerous for him to stop at cafés on his way to the airport . |
| 16 | Perhaps it would be good for him . |
| 17 | The proposal is that a buyer who is a non-consumer should not have this right where the breach is so slight that it would be unreasonable for him to reject the goods . |
| 18 | To help in this , we asked Paul Ingouf if it would be possible for him to obtain maps and plans of the Harbour , and to mark the spot where the aircraft crashed . |
| 19 | It would be possible for him to wear her down , so she must be ultra-careful and protect herself . |
| 20 | It would be helpful for him to give an expanded definition of camping , while his partner listens carefully . |
| 21 | One thing that he did make very clear at the end was that if we thought of other things that he should know about , or it would be helpful for him to know about , we should contact him , so he 's left it very open for us to have an ongoing contact which I thought . |
| 22 | I thought it would be beneficial for him . |
| 23 | If this brilliant colt attempts the Triple Crown , in Louisville , Maryland , and New York , it would be impossible for him to take in Epsom . |
| 24 | It would be impossible for him to speak of their past , or of her , without seeming vulgarly proprietary ; or of Jim , without seeming barbed ; or of Sam ; or even of work . |
| 25 | But , so far as I can judge of the matter , I should think that in the interests of the man himself — as a human being facing indefinite detention — it would be better for him to be told the reasons . |
| 26 | In 1986 , it was provided that an applicant should not be treated as having accommodation unless it was such that it would be reasonable for him to continue to occupy it . |
| 27 | If a balance were left over , it would be reasonable for him to try to use it to repay those who have set the trend . |
| 28 | It would be hard for him to sell Newmont shares quickly . |
| 29 | Well he would would he he would design everything and then obviously it would be important for him to get it sent out . |
| 30 | Whatever formal characteristics Lyons might attribute to English in theory , in practice it would be difficult for him to sustain the claim that ‘ it is possible to address someone or talk about someone in English without indicating one 's relative social status or attitude ’ . |