Example sentences of "it be [adj -er] for [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shall I wait and then put in er would it be better for me to wait and then put in a big lump sum ? |
| 2 | It 's better for them to see their loved ones as they remember them . ’ |
| 3 | but we 're not allowed to put posters on the walls you know , it 's better for them to stick them at |
| 4 | I think we 're all agreed that it 's better for us to die honourably together in this way than to risk a worse fate at the hands of the enemy . " |
| 5 | If we can get full pages fine but sometimes it 's better for us to get these . |
| 6 | It 's better for you to wait there . |
| 7 | out , he says to me you 'll kill yourself , you always want to do something , but to be honest it 's worse for me to sit there and watch that , it 's more tiring because by the end of the night I 'm not tired or I 've been asleep all evening I , I 'm better to go out , I know it sounds awful but I do n't like being trapped , I do n't like being in because somebody seems to think I should be in |
| 8 | five or ten minutes late , it 's cheaper for me to put ten P in than to pay twelve pound ticket |
| 9 | I mean , we 're buying coal which is subsidised abroad so therefore it 's cheaper for us to buy it and bring it in , but what happens when all , all our home supplies have dried up |
| 10 | He , he picks on us to say how determined we are to actually go into the profession because he knows that er , although there are more parts for females there it 's harder for somebody to stand out . |
| 11 | But because they have less control over muscles , it 's harder for them to form words and sounds . |
| 12 | Coun Buttle told members of the personnel committee : ‘ It 's important to stress that men as well as women can be victims of harassment and sometimes it 's harder for them to admit it . ’ |
| 13 | They have as much interest in learning to talk as any other child , but because they have less control over the muscles in the mouth , it 's harder for them to express themselves . |
| 14 | ‘ I did pick up a lot of younger listeners with the early evening shows and it 's harder for them to tune in now , which I regret , but , without wanting to sound melodramatic , I would have done myself a mischief if I 'd carried on and I already feel better . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I did pick up a lot of younger listeners with the early evening shows and it 's harder for them to tune in now , which I regret , but , without wanting to sound melodramatic , I would have done myself a mischief if I 'd carried on and I already feel better . ’ |
| 16 | It 's quicker for me to clear up/wash up and so on than to argue with them about doing it . |
| 17 | I want to support him , I am doing so , even if he refuses to acknowledge that just now because it 's easier for him to bear what has happened if he pretends it is me who is more broken than he . |
| 18 | Well , you see , it 's easier for me to sit here , and to pontificate , and therefore your questions were well put , erm , we can demonstrate , I think a much more effective approach to the environment in in our field , because er , we 're dealing with chemicals which we have some control over , and which exists to some small degree in air , air machines . |
| 19 | Yeah it 's easier for me to get in and out of bed of . |
| 20 | It 's easier for you to experiment to see how it works than for me to go in for a detailed but boring explanation . |
| 21 | Where it 's easier for you to walk . |
| 22 | It is cheaper for them to get a garden fork and go out digging for their own . ’ |
| 23 | Clearly , it is cheaper for them to operate like this because they do not have regular wage bills to pay . |
| 24 | Surely it is better for them to strive to be literate than to engage themselves in the fruitless task of emulating the speech of the hearing . |
| 25 | ‘ It is better for us to say we are going to have to institute a series of strict priorities . |
| 26 | Anselm 's definition is seen as part of a clever philosophical con trick whereby he argues that it is greater for something to exist than not to exist , and thereby that the definition of God ( as the greatest thing conceivable ) demands that He exist ! |
| 27 | ‘ It is safer for me to move around from place to place . |
| 28 | If no appropriate child restraint is available for children aged 1 to 4 years old , it is safer for them to wear an adult belt alone , rather than no restraint at all . |
| 29 | A few are ‘ trying out ’ policing by joining the reserves first , although the common view amongst the reserve police is that it is harder for them to transfer to the regulars than it is for someone without experience to sign up straight away because of the greater number of reasons the police authorities are thereby given for turning them down . |
| 30 | I tell them to pay in metal , it is easier for me to negotiate , but they always reply that it 's too hard for them to get . |