Example sentences of "it is [adj -er] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is cheaper for them to get a garden fork and go out digging for their own . ’ |
| 2 | Clearly , it is cheaper for them to operate like this because they do not have regular wage bills to pay . |
| 3 | As we shall see in the next chapter , there are those who believe that management have often adopted forms of work organisation which give rise to unsatisfying jobs because it is cheaper for them so to do . |
| 4 | For the normal continuation of the museums ' collecting and activities , it is better for them not to collect pictures by European masters for kopeks in Russia , but to buy equipment and restoration materials with serious money in the West . |
| 5 | Surely it is better for them to strive to be literate than to engage themselves in the fruitless task of emulating the speech of the hearing . |
| 6 | In the fourth Gospel Jesus tells his followers , heart-broken because he is going to leave them , that it is better for them that he should do so : |
| 7 | The county has a view about golf courses — that if there is to be such a development it is better for them to be sited not on good farming land , or in naturally beautiful areas , but on the outskirts of towns . |
| 8 | ‘ It is better for us to say we are going to have to institute a series of strict priorities . |
| 9 | Alice said generously , ‘ Perhaps it is worse for you and Oliver , really . |
| 10 | ‘ It is safer for me to move around from place to place . |
| 11 | If no appropriate child restraint is available for children aged 1 to 4 years old , it is safer for them to wear an adult belt alone , rather than no restraint at all . |
| 12 | A few are ‘ trying out ’ policing by joining the reserves first , although the common view amongst the reserve police is that it is harder for them to transfer to the regulars than it is for someone without experience to sign up straight away because of the greater number of reasons the police authorities are thereby given for turning them down . |
| 13 | The Boro boss added : ‘ Forwards are at the sharp end , especially away from home , where it is harder for them . |
| 14 | I tell them to pay in metal , it is easier for me to negotiate , but they always reply that it 's too hard for them to get . |
| 15 | The teacher can remain facing the class , so it is easier for him to maintain attention . |
| 16 | The stiff rein indicates that the horse is not carrying or pushing as much with that inside hind leg and so it is easier for him to shy ( and so stop going forward ) , if he is not working as well in the first instance . |
| 17 | Obviously , it is easier for them to develop in the Second Division rather than the First Division . ’ |
| 18 | There are advantages to customers in that it is easier for them to ask questions in a more realistic way in order to ascertain the product 's utility more clearly and quickly . |
| 19 | At night it is easier for them to wander unmolested . ’ |
| 20 | If he has not done much gardening before , you can work together , so that you can enjoy sharing the tasks , and it is easier for you to assess when the patient has had enough . |
| 21 | When you speak to someone on the telephone it is easier for you to represent your company or organization . |
| 22 | But of course , you are n't out to trap me into matrimony , so it is easier for you to be frank . |
| 23 | Let us suppose that binary oppositions are natural in the sound system of a language , that because of the physical properties of our auditory apparatus it is easier for us to distinguish x/not-x-type contrasts . |
| 24 | It is easier for us to do this than it is for the English or Americans . ’ |