Example sentences of "what it is [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if our picture of God is wrong , then our whole presupposition of what it is possible for God to be or do is correspondingly altered . |
| 2 | What emerges from this example is that there can be situations of moral dilemma which impose limits on what it is possible for someone to do . |
| 3 | starting from statements about what it is important for children to know about language : e.g. its uses in literature , language variation , bilingualism , language change , ambiguities and problems in communication , the writing system , etc. ; |
| 4 | We do it when we decide what it is acceptable for people to be able or unable to do . |
| 5 | The question of what it is desirable for Japan to be and do deeply divides the Japanese , but few fail to acknowledge that being Japanese sets them apart . |
| 6 | What it is difficult for those from the West fully to grasp , is just how surreal life under state socialism has been , especially in the early fifties when the system reached a kind of apogee of dementia . |