Example sentences of "it [is] [adj] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think a good example to use with younger people with er pe with pensions as well is that the , the er the cutting down of funding that the government is making and it 's going to be hitting like the younger people and another important thing is like with the , with the Australia issue , I mean in Australia now it 's compulsory for everybody under the age of twenty five to have a personal pension and that r and that age rise is going to , that age limit is going to rise each time because they want to abolish the State pension completely and it was only , what , what about two months ago that there was , that there was er articles in I think it was The Times about them doing a similar operation in this country , you know ? |
| 2 | it 's young for her I mean |
| 3 | It 's due for its MOT test . |
| 4 | It 's late for somebody your age . |
| 5 | He kept his eyes on the ground as he answered , ‘ A lovely evening , but it 's late for you to be out alone . ’ |
| 6 | It 's tremendous for us because they 're obviously the best side in this division . ’ |
| 7 | And granddad does n't li want people to see him sort of you know when he has to get up and walk about and go to the loo with the door open and I mean it 's not so bad for us because we 're all related but it 's awful for You know I mean I ca n't imagine Jody or Jessica or Alison or anybody liking it very much . |
| 8 | ‘ All the same , it 's rotten for you , having to manage on your own . ’ |
| 9 | It 's desperate for it . |
| 10 | The council says it 's better for everyone , but unions say smokers are being victimised . |
| 11 | I need , at the moment in terms of corrective action on quiffs , I am sending quiffs out to procedure owners , and I need to know whether suggestive procedure changes or not , and it 's better for me if it is out in that order then I can go through and mark the quiffs off as being erm the changes or not . |
| 12 | It 's better for me , 'cos there 's less caffeine , and I drink a lot of tea , so . |
| 13 | ‘ Not really because it seems to do any good but just because the thinking is that it 's better for him than other commercial products , ’ says Kathleen . |
| 14 | It 's better for him . |
| 15 | It 's better for them to see their loved ones as they remember them . ’ |
| 16 | but we 're not allowed to put posters on the walls you know , it 's better for them to stick them at |
| 17 | I think we 're all agreed that it 's better for us to die honourably together in this way than to risk a worse fate at the hands of the enemy . " |
| 18 | If we can get full pages fine but sometimes it 's better for us to get these . |
| 19 | ‘ Come on , sit down and let's all have a beer , ’ she said , and with a look at Dr Reid added , ‘ It 's better for you than that rotgut at the bar . ’ |
| 20 | It 's better for you to wait there . |
| 21 | Well if it 's better for you I should . |
| 22 | It 's wrong to assume that just because a cream says it contains plant extracts it 's better for your skin . |
| 23 | It 's better for your health ! |
| 24 | ‘ It 's worse for them because they blame themselves for having provided me with the financial means to take a plebeian job . ’ |
| 25 | out , he says to me you 'll kill yourself , you always want to do something , but to be honest it 's worse for me to sit there and watch that , it 's more tiring because by the end of the night I 'm not tired or I 've been asleep all evening I , I 'm better to go out , I know it sounds awful but I do n't like being trapped , I do n't like being in because somebody seems to think I should be in |
| 26 | ‘ Any more than it 's possible for me to work up at the college with all those strapping lads running round in jockey shorts and have no reaction whatsoever . ’ |
| 27 | We have n't even got a system , as far as I understand it , that 's compatible , so that it 's possible for me to send my reading lists to , for instance , so they can be picked up by the library . |
| 28 | Can I ask , Mr Chairman , if it 's possible for us to have a copy of the reports ? |
| 29 | Nobody and I do n't ever think people will bring up somebody else 's the same as they would their selves , I , I do n't think it 's possible for anybody to do it , I mean look at Julia when she was a , that childminder with that Kerry |
| 30 | ‘ It 's terrible for her . |