Example sentences of "[vb base] it [be] [adj] for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I expect it 's hard for them to find their feet on these shifting sands . ’ |
| 2 | Some say it is good for the Prime Minister to mix with the crowd and others that for a Prime Minister it is less than dignified . |
| 3 | Senior sources say it is appropriate for Whitbread to move away from being a family-dominated group , saddled with an arcane share structure , in 1992 , its 250th anniversary . |
| 4 | They say it is unjust for the publicans and bad for the pubs . |
| 5 | Professor Alan Smithers and Pamela Robinson , of Manchester University , say it is vital for Britain 's economic future that more young people are persuaded to stay at school after 16 . |
| 6 | They say it 's good for children to grow up with pets around them . |
| 7 | They let all the big companies go round digging holes in the road , and when people fall in and complain they say it 's all for their own good , and after a while they hope the people will revolt so they can give the police guns and thin out the population , and then they 'll have a police state — which is what they 've always wanted — and the rich will be able to live in peace . ’ |
| 8 | But the Mohammedians say it 's impossible for Jesus to be the son of God because did n't have a wife , and it 's as simple That 's ex that 's exactly how the Islamics view it . |
| 9 | An inquest has been told how an elderley man died from the treatment he was taking for his athletes foot.John Ellis took a revolutionary new drug for his condition , after years of suffering.But within a couple of months , he died from liver failure.But the makers of the drug say it 's safe for most people , and it wo n't be withdrawn.Chris Moore reports . |
| 10 | ‘ I imagine it is impossible for just anyone to come in here to see your work , as I have ? ’ |
| 11 | Once an infection takes hold it is difficult for antibiotics to destroy all the bacteria , so some survive to start more trouble later . |
| 12 | As an adjunct to assertion and challenge it is vital for teachers , both individually and collectively , within the school and externally , to be able to clarify the whole structure of the demand/limitation framework within which they are working . |
| 13 | It provides an effective descant over voices , and can sound languid and restful , especially when unaccompanied in its bottom octave , rising from middle C. In its middle register it is useful for teaching new tunes or doubling the melody line . |
| 14 | ‘ That you wear it is sufficient for my purpose . |
| 15 | This is proved by a letter from one Mr. Wildhagen to Sir William le Fleming and dated the 19 October 1721 : " hellip ; your honr know it is impossible for the men to work att your Fells of Conistone in the winter season for long as their houses are unbuilt , they haveing so far to come and go to thir lodgings … |
| 16 | " But we know it is difficult for foreigners in Egypt to deal with all the many problems . |
| 17 | I know it is hard for those of you travelling a long way , but it is very disconcerting for the poor teacher to have a steady trickle of latecomers all through the lesson — particularly when most of the latecomers are not the people who have travelled furthest ! |
| 18 | In spite of himself Joe was impressed by the earnestness in Chris 's voice and said less forcefully , ‘ I know it 's easy for me to talk , I 've never been in this situation , but what 's going to happen ? |
| 19 | Most people want to like art — they know it 's good for you , or at any rate looks good on you — but face to face with a great painting they feel like gate-crashers at a Mayfair reception . |
| 20 | Oh gosh , that 's good for you , you know it 's good for your co-ordination . |
| 21 | Now I know it 's traditional for Daleswomen not to have an interest in politics , but our family was Liberal by and large . |
| 22 | ‘ Look , Maud , ’ pleaded Mildred , ‘ I know it 's hard for you to believe me , but that frog in the pond really is a magician and he can only be changed back by another magician . |
| 23 | I know it 's different for men . |
| 24 | ‘ Serve the Captain first — and do n't give me any , you know it 's bad for me , not more than a taste , one slice — that 's enough ! |
| 25 | I know it 's bad for you , but what is n't these days ? ’ |
| 26 | Time Out publisher Tony Elliott , who is chairman of the TV Listings Campaign lobby group , says : ‘ We ended with a decision which was very favourable to us — about £1,000 a year for Time Out — and we know it 's unrealistic for us to complain , although a large number of publishers believe this information should be completely free . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I know it 's difficult for you , living in a world of make-believe as you obviously do . |
| 28 | I know it 's disturbing for people to watch these attacks . ’ |
| 29 | At that moment it had been appropriate to put big pickets you know I think if we thought too much about it we would have and taken it to the lodge and put it through the union it would have had cold water put over it and you know it was right for Tom to be wary and it was probably right for us to do what we did I mean I think you know it it was successful the way it turned out . |
| 30 | But — oh , Ellie , there was such a to-do last time , Phena carrying on as though she were the only person in the world who had been lied to , and I know it was hard for her , and Feargal would have given her all this without a blink , but she wanted to play the martyr , and now makes him pay for it in oh , so many little ways . ’ |