Example sentences of "it is [adv] [adv] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rather less common for females to mate with more than one male ( polyandry , meaning many males ) . |
| 2 | Of course , as the ISC says , if there are no independent directors it is rather more difficult for shareholders to get an independent view of the directors ' offer . |
| 3 | It is nowadays quite unrealistic for a tenant even to attempt to secure a long letting of commercial property at a fixed rack rent ; and no well-advised landlord would grant such a lease . |
| 4 | Whilst such an attitude to life is clearly desirable for hunters depending on highly unreliable food resources which would soon reduce them to chronic anxiety if they were to take a less prodigal view of things , it is evidently less suitable for seasonal hunters who must store food if they are to avoid starvation . |
| 5 | It is admittedly relatively easy for a monist to show ( as Lodge does ) that even the best translation of a prose work loses something of the original . |
| 6 | Of course , it is normally quite impossible for all economic agents to anticipate fully the annual rise in the general price level . |
| 7 | It is thus eminently possible for the homosexual sub-culture to inform and , on occasion , dominate virtually every pop style since the 1950s and none more so than in mid-1980s — but still to find itself politically disenfranchised , socially marginal , and vulnerable to attacks from the New Morality . |
| 8 | It is again most extreme for kestrels and hen harriers and for the mammalian predators ( Table 3.6 ) . |
| 9 | Very few of them , however , visit the backward , disadvantaged areas of these countries , and it is even less usual for them to be asked to share their own experience with those who are working there and comment critically on what they are doing . |
| 10 | As 1992 approaches , the year for the fulfilment of the Single European Market , it is even more important for the Churches of Europe to have a more accurate and comprehensive picture so that strategies for the re-evangelisation of the European Community can be developed . |
| 11 | The perceived decrease in the public 's generosity means that it is even more important for businesses , and I mean all business , not just the larger ones that have traditionally provided the pool of resource , to realise that their businesses would only succeed within a healthy society , and a healthy society means the support of business men and business women . |
| 12 | Once involved in multiple parameter recorders for large public transport jets , it is no longer appropriate for national authorities to specify in precise terms which parameters must be recorded . |
| 13 | It is no longer essential for everyone to do the same experiment at the same time , and be held up when a few find unexpected difficulties . |
| 14 | The village toll-house still remains , though it is no longer necessary for local farmers as in former days to drive their cattle through fields to avoid paying the toll . |
| 15 | So if the overriding aim is to minimize loss of earnings , it is economically rational for working women to delay or avoid marriage when it is no longer necessary for their financial security ( Ermisch 1981 ) . |
| 16 | The second factor is important because it should lead to improved productivity of application developers , as it is no longer necessary for them to know diverse languages , environments and command sequences . |
| 17 | It is no longer necessary for a deed to be sealed . |
| 18 | If your employment ends because of , say , revolution overseas , the contract may be regarded as frustrated , ie completely brought to an end by operation of law , because it is no longer possible for the contractual duties to be performed as you and your employer originally envisaged . |
| 19 | Quite simply , these are times when there is more healing to be done , more effort is required by the natural healing powers to maintain order or to put it slightly differently , it is no longer possible for a balance and harmony to be sustained without the production of symptoms of disease . |
| 20 | The museum director , Mr Murata , states that since French paintings have become so expensive today it is no longer possible for a museum to build a satisfactory collection of them , and therefore they have decided to collect British works , focusing on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century artists . |
| 21 | In sum , it is no longer possible for English studies to rely upon traditional literary values , given current awareness of a history dominated by privatisation , sectarianism , and nationalism . |
| 22 | Given this , it is no longer possible for the rate of interest to ensure equality between planned saving and planned investment and so Say 's Law will no longer hold . |
| 23 | He said that the long-distance part of the network has been costing the government around £11m per year to run : ‘ It has been found by a continued process of review that it is no longer cost-effective for the government to continue running it itself , ’ he said . |
| 24 | THE conversion of the Bury to Manchester line to Metrolink operations has meant that it is no longer available for conventional locomotives and trains . |
| 25 | Letting go of your marriage , if it is no longer good for you , can be the most successful thing you 've ever done . |
| 26 | Although it has recently become fashionable to subject judges to ( usually ill-informed ) public criticism , even in Parliament , and although it is no longer unknown for demands for the removal of judges to be voiced in the House of Commons ( as when Sir John Donaldson incurred opprobrium as President of the National Industrial Relations Court for applying the law which Parliament itself had passed ) Parliament has still , in modern times , to remove a judge in this manner . |
| 27 | It is no longer acceptable for white men to dominate the great decision-making institutions of our countries . |
| 28 | At these levels , the complex variation which encodes rich social meanings to insiders simply becomes progressively more and more redundant : it is no longer functional for these mobile people . |
| 29 | But like the olives , it is probably genetically impossible for the fruit to appeal to all tastes . |
| 30 | These studies show that the plasminogen activating activity of ascites is primarily mediated by tissue plasminogen activator and that it is also probably responsible for a coagulopathy mediated by primary fibrinolysis after insertion of a peritoneovenous shunt . |