Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] it is for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is easier for us to do this than it is for the English or Americans . ’ |
| 2 | But there are those for whom the task is easier than it is for most . |
| 3 | Gestation is slightly shorter than it is for human mothers . |
| 4 | The report , People and Poverty in the North East , says that the cost of living for people on income support is three times as high as it is for those on an average wage . |
| 5 | Parents generally worry less about the sexual behaviour of their sons , and teaching boys about sex and contraception is sometimes considered less crucial than it is for girls . |
| 6 | The camera work can be kept as simple as it is for recording one person giving a talk — it can stay on the interviewee . |
| 7 | Any charge by the landlord is standard-rated if it is for agreeing not to opt or that the rent is VAT-inclusive . |
| 8 | For those whose ties are uniplex and ( relatively ) open-ended , these patterns are no longer functional and it is for this reason , and not primarily because of speakers ' desire for ‘ prestige ’ , that they disappear . |
| 9 | Useful though it is for many jobs , the sheer power of the big-capacity Cummins engine puts a fair bit of strain on other parts of the tractor . |
| 10 | Well , if you have a problem after , say , the tenth month after purchase , you will be too late for any claim under the Sale Of Goods Act , but you will still have a claim under your guarantee — as long as it is for more than ten months , and providing you sent off the registration card ! |
| 11 | For the extreme relativist , the distinction between science and non-science becomes much more arbitrary and less important that it is for the rationalist . |
| 12 | It turns out that for these kinds of DNA the rate of change in evolution is much higher than it is for the more constrained , ‘ coding ’ , regions . |
| 13 | Many circumstances are made intolerable as it is for lack of sufficient respite services . |
| 14 | The contrast between the two boys , fruitful as it is for the novelist , is strong both in the early part of the story , when they are in training , and in the second phase when they work their way from Paris to Rome , to Salzburg , to Vienna . |
| 15 | If you want to get money out it 's harder than it is for white people — they always check you and go away and phone . |
| 16 | Their pre-school life is often more sheltered than it is for white children . |
| 17 | You see the problem again is that , is the same as it is for anybody , next week is just planning , as it were , you know , this is what it 's about , why did the general management not sit down and say , oh that 's peak time to have them out we can not have all them indoors in there from , that 's a full morning . |
| 18 | Since a variety of conduct is included within the term gross indecency , the protection afforded to male patients from sexual exploitation is greater than it is for female patients . |
| 19 | ‘ Not as rare as it is for you to meet a woman who wants to be there . ’ |
| 20 | His respect for other faiths is as strong as it is for his own faith . |
| 21 | Interestingly , the sex-differentiation pattern across the three inner-city areas is not as consistent for /a/ as it is for /Ε/; there is some indication that the young Clonard women are increasing their use of back realizations when compared with other female groups ( see table 4.10 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ We 've always done it this way ’ is as daft an excuse for an industrial manufacturing process which has become fossilised as it is for saying that fossils have a life of their own . |
| 23 | It is entirely wrong to assume that older women , who have been involved in employment during their lives , should experience retirement as any more or less significant than it is for older men . |
| 24 | Where it breaks down and you get a governing body that is split down the middle , where you get staff who tend to who might tend to go in an opposite way to the head teacher , where you get parents who are asked to make difficult decisions as with an opt out ballot , then I think that you have to look very hard at the way that that school is managed and the way that it 's going in the future , because those are the sort of issues that unless you get those right the future for the school can not be as bright as it is for one where they are working as a team . |