Example sentences of "it be [adj] [noun sg] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I do n't remember it being any hassle for me . |
| 2 | So it 's admirable evidence for what I call the minor claim of the punctuationalist school , of the empirical claim . |
| 3 | ‘ In my work it 's second nature for me to double check all factual research . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's great news for us but now we have to concentrate on the football and try to achieve a good result , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Aye , well it 's it 's , I suppose it 's all money for him as well . |
| 6 | peopler want to see us getting sweaty and making mistakes , it 's good fun for them |
| 7 | Still , it 's good practice for what lies ahead , I suppose . ’ |
| 8 | Well that 's right , yes , and the other thing as well , I should n't really be telling you this , , because it 's bad news for us but , if you in fact write a long , rambling press release , what you will find is that the journalist will almost , almost certainly go three-quarters of the way down it to find the real story which is hidden in there , and occasionally that real story is purposely hidden down in there , and you know you look at any council minutes , and the real story is always , inevitably hidden down there , because it 's the bit that somebody does n't want people to know about , and so journalists are naturally trained to go down the bit to find out what 's it about . |
| 9 | If your name is pulled out of the hat on Friday , August 28 , it 's gay Paree for you and a partner . |
| 10 | Frequently venue staff try to set everything up before you arrive , on the basis that it worked for the people before you and it 's less effort for them . |
| 11 | You know , maybe I 'm not giving that much away , erm , it 's constant reinforcement for something that is important to me . |
| 12 | I have been preaching a few times and invitations are coming in , so it is good experience for me . |
| 13 | She feels it is good experience for her children too . |
| 14 | Fundamentally , the reason why it is good policy for us to try to explain biological phenomena in terms of gene advantage is that genes are replicators . |
| 15 | It is good advice for there is no substitute for the sort of general information that can be gathered in this way . |
| 16 | It is good news for our workforce , clients and sub-contractors . ’ |
| 17 | It is good news for his firm , Chemical Discoveries ; ‘ But perhaps more importantly it will enhance our ambitions for innovating large-scale land reclamation projects to benefit underdeveloped countries . |
| 18 | ‘ Try to keep me away , ’ he had whispered , ‘ although it is exquisite torture for me these days , my dear McAllister , to have you so near , and be unable to stroke every bit of your delectable body . |
| 19 | Or let him acknowledge that while it is rational doubt for him as a liberal humanist to criticize the Buddhist , the Marxist or the Christian , it might equally be a rational doubt for the Marxist to criticize him as a humanist . |
| 20 | This is because it is second nature for them to pose their questions at the level of the individual organism . |
| 21 | In a situation of panic , in an army , for example , there is a loss of the libidinal ties which hold the group together , and people behave in ways which take no account of the group : it is each man for himself ; orders are ignored . |
| 22 | Let us admit that good taste and proper judgement have to be worked out slowly and painfully and personally , and that it is each man for himself . |
| 23 | A spokesman for the SAC said : ‘ It is normal practice for us to monitor our revenue clients on a regular basis and in particular to study their proposals under their four-year plan . |
| 24 | ‘ You see , ’ he said kindly , ‘ it is one thing for someone like yourself who has always had an easy life — up to now , that is — to speak glibly about suffering women , and think that there is an easy way out — ’ |
| 25 | But it is one thing for us to know that a person needs God 's conviction and another thing to say so to him . |
| 26 | On the 18th Braid hit his 2nd shot into the road and he ‘ might have damaged the steam roller ’ so it is some comfort for us to know that the course 's own architect was penalised by his own design . |
| 27 | And having heard , he said sombrely : ‘ It is high time for her . |
| 28 | ‘ It is another punishment for our rebellion . ’ |
| 29 | It was heady stuff for me . |
| 30 | He either did n't believe her , or was so unused to accepting answers unquestioningly that it was second nature for him to delve into the nitty-gritty . |