Example sentences of "it [is] for [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , we have to fight for our equality , for our own rights but w we can change men and our , the responsibility is not for women to change men , it 's for women to change our own lives , our own situations , and for we , men to change their own . |
| 2 | Look how difficult it is for women to get on in the medical or legal profession ! |
| 3 | But Making Out highlights how important it is for women to have a job and be with other women workers — often in very crummy circumstances , but actually being very resilient with a lot of humour and girl talk . |
| 4 | It is as much about who I am as it is about how I look , and about how difficult it is for women to separate the two . |
| 5 | It is surprising how easy it is for businessmen to assume that other nationalities will react in exactly the same way as they themselves do . |
| 6 | I can not stress enough how important it is for teachers to realise that because drama is such a powerful tool for helping people change , as teachers we need to be very sensitive to the emotional demands we make on our students . |
| 7 | It 's amazing how difficult it is for strangers to find the main entrance to many schools , particularly when the school is a modern flat roofed single storey building . |
| 8 | We all know how difficult it is for scientists to obtain their due recognition . |
| 9 | It is for ministers to determine themselves , whether they answer by means of a written question or whether they make an oral statement . |
| 10 | It is for others to offer moral guidance to the newly prosperous Pharisees . |
| 11 | The argument also assumes ( b ) that I can understand what it is for others to have mental states . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | How easy or difficult it is for girls to tell their parents that they are pregnant also depends on how accustomed they are to confiding in their mothers or fathers about periods , boyfriends , sex and contraception . |
| 14 | The more distant in time an issue is to current industry concerns , the more difficult it is for managers to establish that it applies to their business in some significant way ( relevancy ) and that it should be addressed now ( urgency ) . |
| 15 | For example , there is some disagreement about how wise it is for parents to intervene in their children 's quarrels , given that parental attention might unwittingly reinforce quarrelling . |
| 16 | It is for lawyers to make a reality of the single market for UK enterprises , wherever in the Community they choose to locate their business activities , or to sell their goods and services . |
| 17 | It is for employers to set up suitable pension arrangements for their employees . |
| 18 | It is frightening how dependent upon drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills . |
| 19 | At the level of parliament , the news media and opinion poll data , management of the national economy has been the dominant issue in British politics for much of the post-war period and however important it is for socialists to insist that ‘ the political ’ be given a broader definition , they can not afford to be silent on so important a concern . |
| 20 | It is for schools to embrace the same approach for disruptive pupils . |
| 21 | It is for schools to work out balanced programmes for themselves , and the pressure is on to find ways of convincingly managing ever-increasing demands . |
| 22 | Hard as it is for bosses to accept it , head office delivers many services in the same way as would an outside subcontractor . |