Example sentences of "[adj] for [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously Wordsworth 's performance in his studies at school must have been outstanding for him to have started off at Cambridge with such a lead , and it is hardly surprising that in the college examination in 1787 he was placed in the first class . |
| 2 | We 're talking just under two hundred in Denmark and just under three hundred in Norway it may be cost-effective for us to do it ourselves with initial distribution from Stansted and maybe a local person doing any new distributions but I think in all honesty it will be as cheap for us |
| 3 | The result has been that in some cases the insurance premiums which manufacturers have to pay to protect themselves are so high as to make it no longer profitable for them to remain in business . |
| 4 | It also meant that there was little incentive for them to invest in Britain since it was more profitable for them to invest in countries where profit margins were higher . |
| 5 | But Yanek said , " I have thought about it , Grandfather , and I think it is right for me to go . " |
| 6 | Sometimes Bentham is represented as having held a significantly different view from that just described , according to which an action which it is right for me to do at any moment is either one which produces a greater surplus of pleasure over pain than any alternative action then open to me ( in which case it is the one right action ) or produces as great a surplus as any alternative ( in which case it is a right action ) , while all actions not thus right are wrong . |
| 7 | I shall discuss with my right hon. Friend whether it would be right for me to arrange a debate next week , as the hon. Gentleman suggests . |
| 8 | It would not be right for me to say that he was wrongly ennobled , because I know too little about him to be able to detect whatever surprising quality it was that commended itself to Harold Wilson for admission to the House of Lords . |
| 9 | I think it is right for me to receive the report and then to examine it . |
| 10 | In view of this , it would be no more than proper and right for me to talk in some in great detail about it , but I am not going to , and not just because I have an eye on the clock , or an ear for the protest of stomachs . |
| 11 | The time was right for me to leave , because I had become stale . |
| 12 | But Graham refused to single out Wright for special condemnation after a stormy game featuring five bookings , saying : ‘ It would not be right for me to focus on just one player . |
| 13 | I guess it would n't be right for me to differ with him . |
| 14 | Was it right for me to assume that I would remain senior partner until retirement ? |
| 15 | If I judge that the agreement is not in the interests of this country , it would not be right for me to sign it and I will not sign it . |
| 16 | What probably happened was that she suddenly decided the time was right for her to do some publicity and she had something to talk about , her book , Elizabeth Takes off . |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , ’ she agreed , though while she felt it would not be right for her to question him about his employer , she could see no reason — since he must be aware of the contents of Ven Gajdusek 's desk diary — for not mentioning , ‘ I came here specifically to interview Mr Gajdusek last Friday , but — ’ |
| 18 | but you 've got to you 've got to address both of those schools and ask yourself is it right for one to subsidise another . |
| 19 | In this year , the 25th anniversary of Shelter , does the Minister agree that the time is right for him to give effect to the Prime Minister 's boast in his letter of support to Shelter that the Government would employ public expenditure where necessary ? |
| 20 | What can be said for them is that if the High Priest is acting in the fullest awareness at present attainable by his people , it is right for him to perform the sacrifice , just as it would be right for a Western onlooker to try to dissuade him ; he is not like a Nazi who has voluntarily shut himself off from the knowledge of biology and history and the personal sensitivity attained by the culture of the Weimar Republic . |
| 21 | Schiller had pleaded , once again going through the many reasons why it was right for him to gain a seat on the council . |
| 22 | ‘ She told me it would n't be right for him to work , her mother said . |
| 23 | ‘ But it does n't seem right for them to drive about like that , ’ said Sister Dew . |
| 24 | They were originally intending to work in Zaire , but the situation is still somewhat unstable and it seems that the time is not quite right for them to go there . |
| 25 | It 's right for us to live where we do , between land and water . |
| 26 | ‘ Having seen him about six times , and having spoken to most of their leaders , I believe that the time is right for us to talk to them now , to end this whole conflict once and for all . |
| 27 | I explained that we men were ready to stay if the meeting felt it was right for us to do so . |
| 28 | Although I accept that it is right for us to do that , a counterbalance should be a more effective way of scrutinising affirmative and negative orders . |
| 29 | At that moment it had been appropriate to put big pickets you know I think if we thought too much about it we would have and taken it to the lodge and put it through the union it would have had cold water put over it and you know it was right for Tom to be wary and it was probably right for us to do what we did I mean I think you know it it was successful the way it turned out . |
| 30 | So the Twelve gathered all the disciples together and said , ‘ It would not be right for us to neglect the ministry of the word of God in order to wait on tables . |