Example sentences of "[vb past] it was [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 11 + examination tested what teachers believed it was important for children to know before going on to secondary school . |
| 2 | The parents decided it was better for the child to be taken away . ’ |
| 3 | Nora calculated that there must be lots of single men up there so she decided it was ideal for the ‘ manhunt ’ , as we called it , even though the train fare was a serious consideration . |
| 4 | This meant it was available for the first two years only in London and the South-East and to people who bothered to fit a new aerial . |
| 5 | Dot thought at first she meant it was unkind for the man to be so constricted by the many instruments strapped to all parts of his body . |
| 6 | ‘ The fact that we had to chase the game meant it was tailor-made for Spartak . |
| 7 | I explained that we men were ready to stay if the meeting felt it was right for us to do so . |
| 8 | In the course of that memo , I also said I felt it was necessary for me to safeguard and consolidate my position with the company . |
| 9 | First of all , for instance , the preparation which Milton felt it was necessary for him to give himself , was neither technical nor introspective . |
| 10 | In October 1962 the choir felt it was difficult for them to give a strong lead to the congregational singing because of where the choir was placed and it was recommended that the Trustees should take expert advice on the rearranging of the pulpit area of the church . |
| 11 | ‘ I always felt it was difficult for me to find films . |
| 12 | ‘ But both Graham and I knew it was impractical for me to continue in the job and remain as manager of Exeter . ’ |
| 13 | I knew it was right for him — this is where he learnt to join in and be like other children . |
| 14 | He knew it was impossible for the Prophet to have left the apartment . |
| 15 | Sharpe knew it was important for Dornberg to know where the Emperor was , for where Napoleon rode , that was the main French attack . |
| 16 | More than four-fifths of non-executives thought it was undesirable for one person to be both chairman and chief executive . |
| 17 | ‘ We thought it was stupid for him to fly all the way back to the UK and then find that we had a problem with Jones , ’ said Lions ' manager Geoff Cooke . |
| 18 | ‘ We thought it was stupid for him to fly all the way back to the UK and then find that we had a problem with Jones , ’ said Lions ' manager Geoff Cooke . |
| 19 | Her mother thought it was better for her not to be at home as there was not much space , so the following week they saw the social worker and it was arranged that she go to a house run by the Catholic anti-abortion organisation LIFE . |
| 20 | ‘ That 's why I thought it was better for John to go to Barnsley where youngsters are given a chance . |
| 21 | Being medieval , she thought it was unsuitable for the church to be visibly glittering , but , if the pews and the brass were n't polished , it quickly looked sad and Anna did not like it to look sad . |
| 22 | A lot more people got in , and at St Paul 's , just when Alice thought it was impossible for more to get in , five did . |
| 23 | Ingleton School is a Church of England junior and infant school and Mr Boocock said he thought it was appropriate for the issue of the church 's role in education to be discussed in church . |
| 24 | He sensed a tension in the air , prickling with Blufton 's bruised ego , and thought it was best for her to defuse it . |
| 25 | He thought it was good for the RISC environment but he 's content with the Windows solution Univel is adopting for the Intel environment , which is apparently on the brink of shipping . |
| 26 | Univel Inc president Joel Applebaum last month said in an interview that the Sun Microsystems Inc WABI Windows Application Binary Interface ‘ is not baked yet ’ : he thought it was good for the RISC environment but he 's content with the Windows system that Univel Inc is adopting for the iAPX-86 environment which it is apparently on the brink of shipping ; meanwhile , Univel says it is selling into Europe , South America and the Middle East . |
| 27 | I thought it was good for us . |
| 28 | They thought it was normal for Lucy ( they had never called her Mummy ) to fly from room to room looking for her watch , keys , diary , gloves , scarf , and blow a kiss to them from the garden path as the taxi-driver carried her cello out to the car , while Nissy held them up to the window to wave . |
| 29 | We tested this out by taking it around the office and the people in the office thought it was a bit boring we er thought it was great for the youngsters who probably like it so er erm and the merchandise we 've actually , we 've made up certain things , T-shirts and , and , and wacky items that again er relate to , to young people so that they get into the , the , the theme of the thing and the , the whole year carries forward on a , on a certain colour theme and , and , and so on , so er we 've done our best as sailing coaches not only learning to be marketeers again the money , where 's the money come from ? |
| 30 | He thought it was reasonable for them not to provide night care even now and essential for them to have a night sleeper for seven nights a week from this time on . |