Example sentences of "[vb -s] it is [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | When that happens it is rare for the band to win the resulting battle and emerge unscathed . |
| 2 | When addressing the problem of Germany 's pre-eminent economic power , he either just says it is good for Europe or he says , ‘ I think our neighbours should overcome the tendency to think in terms of nation-states ’ , while the same thought is expressed by one academic : ‘ in many ways , it no longer makes sense to talk about Germany as a distinct national unit ’ . |
| 3 | The council , backing the " polluter must pay " argument , says it is unfair for householders to bear the brunt of the cost ; a tax should be levied on pesticide manufacturers , it argues , and motorists should pay for road drainage through the car licence duty . |
| 4 | To say this would be to deny the universality of what Professor A. J. Ayer says it is natural for us to assume , namely that we use the same word in different situations because we have noticed a distinctive common feature . |
| 5 | He says it is natural for an artist to be concerned with the environment , as he 's exposed to it so often when working outside . |
| 6 | Apple Computer Inc chief John Sculley reckons it is essential for the head of a computer company to have a clear grasp of technological directions and acknowledged that it took him several years before he felt confident to take strategic decisions . |
| 7 | Parsytec reckons it is ideal for bank , insurance , legal , database and government operations where it can be used to automate the keying in of information for processing , archival and retrieval . |
| 8 | This survey shows it is possible for sufferers to help themselves effectively as our programme has proved . |
| 9 | If the review shows it is feasible for the work to be done outside the ES , the market testing process is taken to another stage . |
| 10 | Amazing as it sounds it is possible for a woman to have more than one vagina . |
| 11 | I have an application to make to your Lordship er in due course when your Lordship feels it is appropriate for an application to be made . |
| 12 | Since this is the nature of the economic environment within which the agent operates it is rational for the agent to use that information about her environment to draw inferences from the information that she has about the current state of the economy , that is to solve her signal extraction problem . |
| 13 | Success in treating a rare inborn error of metabolism called abetalipoproteinaernia ( ABL ) has renewed interest in vitamin E , and suggests it is essential for normal nerve function . |
| 14 | A resolution , to be put to the national conference of the National Federation of Retail Newsagents in Llandudno , suggests it is wrong for ‘ agent provocateurs ’ children sent for cigarettes by adults to be used to trap shopkeepers . |
| 15 | Paul Murdin , who is in charge of the Isaac Newton telescope at its new site at La Palma , believes it is unfair for today 's operators of the telescope to be blamed for past errors . |