Example sentences of "[conj] it is for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Kuwait it is just that we by the way in Kuwait we have two courts , we have the civil courts and we have the Islamic court , and erm Islamic cases go to the Islamic court and otherwise they go to the civil court , except just we we accept erm how to live our live in a modern way and keeping up with the times , and it is a tradition that we have adopted in Kuwait , and the fact that it is for women can drive in Kuwait versus those that do n't in Saudi Arabia , I do n't believe I 'd like to put that in the Islamic context , it 's just a way of life which we have adopted . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Not surprisingly therefore , the results of the 1983 survey show that mass unemployment ‘ has created a serious new risk of what can only be regarded as downward social mobility — and that risk is much greater for men in working class positions , by whatever route they come into them , than it is for others ’ ( p. 17 ) . |
| 4 | Starting and staying in business is more difficult for certain types of people than it is for others . |
| 5 | Is n't it , but you do n't you think that 's more so for females than it is for males , the fact that it is such a dirty thing that , that applies more to females than it does , to males ? |
| 6 | Further in relation to females , wastage is considerably more difficult to explain when using student characteristics , than it is for males . |
| 7 | erm I find I 'm not sure that any of us can erm cope with what 's going on at the moment in the Gulf without having just ways of distracting ourselves , erm and I think that perhaps might be more of a problem for adults than it is for children , in the sense that erm most of us have access to more information than most children do erm and more information about what death means , and what suffering means , and what pain means , than erm most children who have been brought up in this country . |
| 8 | The most familiar description perhaps is that given by Lord Wright in Davies v Powell Duffryn Associated Collieries Ltd ( No 2 ) [ 1942 ] AC 601 at p611 : It is not a claim which the deceased could have pursued in his own lifetime because it is for damages suffered not by himself , but by his family after his death . |
| 9 | Cannibalism is a subject of fascination and exquisite horror for the Buid , as it is for Europeans ( see Arens 1979 ) . |
| 10 | John-Paul Sartre , in Being and Nothingness , writes : ‘ So far as the physicians have had any experience with my body , it was with my body in the midst of the world and as it is for others . |
| 11 | ‘ I give my personal guarantee that this production of Swan Lake will be as magical for children as it is for adults , ’ he wrote . |
| 12 | If ( and only if ) almost all plant material is seen as soon as the LB-level is reached then increases in readings with increasing exposure will be due to spreading and the graph will be linear for plants in this region , as it is for cards . |
| 13 | Hard as it is for bosses to accept it , head office delivers many services in the same way as would an outside subcontractor . |
| 14 | Fewer pigs are kept in these republics ( pork being an unclean meat for Muslims , as it is for Jews ) and traditional customs such as the postponement of cohabitation ( kaitarma ) , pilgrimages to the graves of local holy men and even abduction are still practised , in some cases with the covert support of local party officials ( most tragic of all were the reports of girls who had burned themselves to death after being dishonoured in this and other ways ) . |
| 15 | Is the appeal of physics the same for women as it is for men ? |
| 16 | Maybe this annual event will become as well known for rare and fine records as it is for books . |