Example sentences of "[subord] it [is] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A comfortable position for writing when work needs to be undertaken at close range is in some respects more difficult to achieve than it is for reading . |
| 2 | Freedom of choice is no longer on the agenda , especially now that American Jews have discovered that it is easier to raise money for absorbing Soviet Jews in Israel than it is for resettling them in the US . |
| 3 | Any charge by the landlord is standard-rated if it is for agreeing not to opt or that the rent is VAT-inclusive . |
| 4 | Designer shops rub shoulders with gourmet restaurants and the promenade is as much for dressing up and meeting people as it is for enjoying the glorious views . |
| 5 | The camera work can be kept as simple as it is for recording one person giving a talk — it can stay on the interviewee . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've always done it this way ’ is as daft an excuse for an industrial manufacturing process which has become fossilised as it is for saying that fossils have a life of their own . |