Example sentences of "[adj] for [pron] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The time is not right for us seriously to consider the proposition . |
| 2 | Similarly , it is not possible for him either to give a hard-and-fast definition of Truth . |
| 3 | The personal representative may suffer because it may not be possible for him fully to wind up the estate and to obtain a discharge from his fiduciary responsibilities . |
| 4 | Would it be possible for them also to prune this tree hard back so the light can be seen . |
| 5 | I mean it 's very nice to be with a child , a baby , for about three or four hours , but after that you are quite grateful for somebody else to come and play with it for a while , and talk to it for a while . |
| 6 | His voice was low , too low for anyone else to hear , but it 's tone was biting . |
| 7 | It 's always easier for someone else to see where you 've missed the point . |
| 8 | Unless low income-earners can achieve , at a stroke , a very large rise in earnings and jump right out of the trap , it is virtually impossible for them significantly to improve their situation . |
| 9 | If the little creatures were really blank paper at birth , nobody would ever have the slightest difficulty in writing on them whatever their particular culture required , and it would be impossible for them ever to surprise their elders by unexpected conduct . |
| 10 | yet without answers to these questions and others like them , it is impossible for us fully to understand our own history and , more importantly , impossible to advise today 's emergent nations on the routes they should be following . |
| 11 | The result of all this can be likened to a vast ocean , teeming with fish of which only one in a million is edible , and just as this would present a monstrous task to fishermen entrusted with the responsibility of feeding a hungry populace , so does the almost unbelievable quantity of religious teaching and literature by its very size and complexity make it impossible for it ever to serve a serious purpose in satisfying the undoubted universal desire for a respected and well-beloved religion . |
| 12 | He is content for everyone else to have their say first , though his everyday associates and friends respect his views too much to let him get away with that too often . |
| 13 | It would have been easy for me just to put off the difficult decisions we need to take , but I must do what is right for this country . |
| 14 | It is paramount for us now to retain high interest rates , which are high in the historic sense , in real terms , and are high compared with Japan , and with America , where they stand at 5 per cent . |
| 15 | The bedroom doors of Darlington Hall are of a certain thickness and I could by no means hear complete exchanges ; consequently , it is hard for me now to recall precisely what I overheard , just as , indeed , it was for me later that same evening when I reported to his lordship on the matter . |
| 16 | I must apologize for this one , it 's hard for me sometimes to understand it as well . |
| 17 | There some of the inhabitants commit some kind of sacrilege which it is hard for us now to decipher . |
| 18 | But clearly it is another factor that would make it the less satisfactory for us simply to refuse the application without more . |
| 19 | Do you do you not think it would be better for us both to speak to ? speak to her and say obviously you were upset about not getting the job but this non- communication thing is not really erm going to you know be good for the sales office in the long term . |
| 20 | Wynne-Jones 's knowledge of the woodland realm was far too useful for them simply to abandon him and race furiously for the north . |
| 21 | As we shall see in the next chapter , there are those who believe that management have often adopted forms of work organisation which give rise to unsatisfying jobs because it is cheaper for them so to do . |
| 22 | I 'm stuck for something else to do at this minute , so I might as well listen . ’ |
| 23 | Because no one can know at this stage what those conditions might be , it would be unwise for anyone now to decide irrevocably to take that decision at a future date . |
| 24 | yeah it is local so I 'll still be coming to the group , I mean it 's erm , going , I mean erm just bear that in mind I might need sort of some help with coordinating cards and things , and erm , particularly if we do opt into the campaign , er it might be advisable for somebody else to do it , or at least sort of give me assistance . |
| 25 | Or do you feel comfortable making decisions about where you 're investing your money , or would you be happy for somebody else to do it ? |
| 26 | It was safer for her simply to go underground . |
| 27 | Tamar 's description , to him and Elizabeth , had been too vivid for him ever to confuse it . |
| 28 | It 's a full time commitment er t and you if you are very if if you are er like say it 's so all the time , it 's difficult for her then to cease to be that , to be somebody else . |
| 29 | When people are used to , say , £1 of their limited housekeeping money going each Friday to nice Mr Jones when he calls , it must be very difficult for them even to consider diverting that money into a different spending channel which would instead involve them — rather than Mr Jones — in all the work of paying it in . |
| 30 | ‘ We rejoice that our brother has passed through the valley and is in the everlasting arms of the Saviour ’ might mean something to a Christian but it is difficult for anyone else to understand . |