Example sentences of "[pron] it be for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the reality is that the court has not given to doctors any right that they did not previously have : it has merely declined to deprive them of a power which it is for them alone to exercise . |
| 2 | and completed this , this wonderful piece of thera therapy , which it was for him , |
| 3 | She she it was for her a matter of conscience . |
| 4 | And so it 's for you it 's for me , for the person sitting beside you and behind , it is for every one of us ! |
| 5 | It 's for you it 's for you . |
| 6 | But you should n't of spent your money , I told you it was for you , not for me ! |
| 7 | You ca n't tell me it 's for nothing . |
| 8 | This naturally prompts the question what it is for one purely particular object to stand for another . |
| 9 | It 's been very hard for years , and now , to be back here , you do n't know what it is for me . |
| 10 | Compare , ‘ One learns what it is for something to be absent through things being absent ’ ; and , ‘ One learns what it is for something to be absent through noticing the absence of things ’ . |
| 11 | Compare , ‘ One learns what it is for something to be absent through things being absent ’ ; and , ‘ One learns what it is for something to be absent through noticing the absence of things ’ . |
| 12 | He starts by remarking that scientists and ( at that time ; he was writing in the 1950s ) philosophers usually take science as the understanding of an independent reality , with the presumptions that they know what it is for something to be ‘ real ’ and for someone to ‘ understand ’ it . |
| 13 | And from this account of empirical meaning there naturally arises an account of what it is for someone to understand a statement , or to know its meaning : |
| 14 | Why does the separation of the mental from the physical make it impossible to show that we understand what it is for there to be other minds than our own , given the separation of the mental from the physical ? |
| 15 | For instance , what it is for there to be a red rose in this darkened room is for it to be the case that if I were to turn the light on , I would make a certain observation , and if I were then to move to another place , I would make an observation rather different , and if you were to come in , you would observe such and such , and so on . |
| 16 | Nor is it necessary to know any of x 's relational properties in order to understand what it is for it to be round-shaped or metal . |
| 17 | I think a lot of people get carried away with the occasion and it 's actually supposed to be a very romantic day , and , you know , that 's what it was for me . |
| 18 | ‘ You could n't bear the thought , could you , of that girl , that nice young girl , being mistress here ? you told yourself it was for me , all for me . ’ |