Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] for [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could perhaps be that the new doctor 's surgery is nearer , or easier for her to get to , has less steps to climb to the front door , or that she has a neighbour on his list who would accompany her to the surgery . |
| 2 | Apart from women sterilized for contraceptive purposes , 6 per cent of women aged 16–44 claimed it would be difficult or impossible for them to have children . |
| 3 | You will be faced here with a great temptation to set goals for fast weight loss that will prove difficult or impossible for you to achieve . |
| 4 | I knew it was n't healthy or good for me to spend so many hours thinking about eating and cooking up plans for new diets or exercise programmes . |
| 5 | It argues merely that whilst Parliament could pass such laws , it would be unlikely or unpurposeful for it to do so . |
| 6 | But , read the chapter this way or that , if there was ever a case for recognising that unions have a right to share in the management of companies , that case depended critically upon a general expectation — amounting to a near-certainty — that , rather than give primacy to their sectional interests , unions would and could act in the general interest whenever it was necessary or desirable for them to do so . |
| 7 | I raised with counsel the question whether , on an appeal such as this , it was appropriate or permissible for me to have regard to those additional findings and reasons . |
| 8 | ‘ Local authorities have an independent responsibility from 1 April and it is less than satisfactory for them to say they will pay the same rates as central government , ’ he said . |
| 9 | And as to the finish , well , they 'd be more than happy for you to check the results for yourself . |
| 10 | in addition , due to the fact that , like all livebearers , they are very sexually active , it allows the females the chance to get a rest if there is more than one for him to press his attentions on . |
| 11 | That would be more than enough for them to take an interest . ’ |
| 12 | Her mouth tight , she hurried into the cottage and slammed the door , but that one brief glance had been more than enough for her to take in the fact that he 'd removed his shirt as though quite impervious to the chill wind that made everyone else shiver , and was digging over the colonel 's vegetable patch with an economy of movement that she might have admired if it had been anyone else but him . |
| 13 | He was n't greedy and there was more than enough for everyone to have their share . |
| 14 | Does not he recognise that it is a broadly based representative body in which it was open to the Conservative party to participate and that for him to call now for a debate , once its work is completed , is extraordinary ? |
| 15 | And that for you to take them all |
| 16 | But although the younger sons could not have Nambudiri wives it was quite normal and respectable for them to take women of the matrilineal castes ( e.g. Nayar ) as recognized consorts . |
| 17 | At least , I assume this card ( which I am returning ) concerns the man who loves collecting pubic hair — it 's much too learned and technical for me to understand most of it , but there are bits of it which do seem to make it clear . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The ice was just too hard and steep for us to climb solo , so we swung leads and swopped axes — mine had developed a distinct floppy-headed rattle . |
| 20 | Why , Eileen wondered , is it all right for her to say that about her husband 's mother , and wrong for me to tell the truth about Mrs Arbuthnot ? |
| 21 | It is going to be nine and a half times the footprint of Hambleton three and a half times the footprint of Brayton Bath it will tower in its mass beside them and it is totally unreasonable and wrong for anybody to describe it as merely of local concern . |
| 22 | They seemed rustic and backward and yet they were friendlier and easier for him to understand than the humans . |
| 23 | In its wisdom , the Community felt able to do that for the Iberian peninsula a few years ago and it would be right and proper for it to do something analogous for the central European countries . |
| 24 | And the beds will be nice and warm for you to get into . |
| 25 | The work being too demanding and impossible for them to cope with or so undemanding that they under achieve becoming bored or disaffected . |
| 26 | ‘ When I got home I called the NRA freephone pollution number and I was told it was too dark and cold for anyone to go down and somebody would be there first thing in the morning . |
| 27 | Grandmothers were an integral part of life and so , when the mass emigrations began , it seemed perfectly right and natural for them to take over the running of the families left behind . |
| 28 | Their English should be sufficiently accurate , specialised and idiomatic for them to detect subtleties of detail and meaning in English material presented to them , and to express such subtleties when they write . |
| 29 | On the other hand it is restful and good for us to change tempo even in the things we enjoy most . |
| 30 | It 's , but then you see that 's not just a question of two free goes , it 's all well and good for you to say |