Example sentences of "it [vb mod] be [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in a larger group , so long as a few actors stand to benefit disproportionately from the group 's success , then it may be worth their while to bear the costs of collective action , although less-involved people will free-ride . |
| 2 | It may be through their particular knowledge , abilities , experience , or contacts — or all of these . |
| 3 | And many older people may be quite right in refusing the prospect of change — it may be in their best interests . |
| 4 | It must be of their inward mental and subtle structure . |
| 5 | I suspect that for many young Germans it might be pretty meaningless , as it would be for their British or French contemporaries , who simply want to get on with their lives without having to attend to the doings of another generation . |
| 6 | Women factory inspectors agreed that the less work women did in factories the better it would be for their home life and children 's welfare , but they were also forced to admit that working women usually needed their earnings . |
| 7 | The Israelis must , in their hearts , know this , and it would be to their everlasting credit to acknowledge it . |
| 8 | Yet they can only survive in warm or temperate climes , and it would be to their advantage to grow bigger . |
| 9 | The colleges themselves , of course , took part in these processes often with some trepidation and nervousness , not knowing how well the CNAA would understand them as institutions or how sympathetic it would be to their approach to teacher education . |
| 10 | Or again , a strong mothering need may motivate a nurse to dress patients when it would be in their best interest to re-learn dressing skills . |
| 11 | When the regiment was about to leave , the same little posse returned to the centre of the town to tell tradesmen they were on the move , and it would be in their interests to stop giving further credit immediately . |
| 12 | If they do not , it will be for their auditors to discuss the matter with the Task Force , on a no-names basis , if they have misgivings about the acceptability of a treatment proposed by a client which hovers in the often grey border area between good and bad practice , and which might set a precedent for other companies . |
| 13 | It will be in their capable hands and ( need I add ? ) |
| 14 | The game from that period looks just as it did when the original agreement was concluded — because of the infinite horizon assumption every subgame is identical to the original game — and so if it was in the firms ' interests to negotiate that agreement initially it will be in their interests now to renegotiate that agreement . |