Example sentences of "it is [adj] for [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 It is paramount for us now to retain high interest rates , which are high in the historic sense , in real terms , and are high compared with Japan , and with America , where they stand at 5 per cent .
2 ‘ In Italy young women live with their families ; it is unheard-of for them to leave home . ’
3 The fact that growing numbers of students are making the personal decision to go into higher education each year suggests strongly that our system of student support , far from providing a deterrent , is encouraging more people to go into higher education , who perhaps would not have had the confidence to do so or the belief that it is appropriate for them .
4 Barbara has always known what emotion it is appropriate for her to feel .
5 That being so , it is appropriate for us to act in a similar way .
6 If it is suitable for you , your doctor might suggest Hormone Replacement Therapy HRT to relieve the symptoms .
7 If it is suitable for you , your doctor might suggest Hormone Replacement Therapy ( HRT ) to relieve the symptoms .
8 The experience of tragic art confirms that the relation of pleasure and awareness is two-way ; if a welcoming of the sharpest awareness of things from which we most deeply recoil , without any reservations of the sort of ‘ This hurts but it is good for me ’ , can make even the fate of Lear or Oedipus enjoyable , it would seem that there can be no involuntary quickening of awareness without joy .
9 It is good for me to get out and do the shopping ; I enjoy that bit of fresh air every day , and it is something I have got to do because this is when I meet people .
10 That is why I think it is good for me to go back to Scotland to remember that there is a world outside London and television .
11 Commitment to sport has to be freely given ; it has to be fun ; it can not be foisted on to the poor or the wayward from above because it is good for them .
12 They do it so rarely that it is good for them .
13 The daily ritual of meal-times , for example , may often contain a wealth of deliberately and non-deliberately imparted information for the child , in part confirming his status as a child ( children should be seen and not heard , children should finish their cabbage because it is good for them ) , in part defining the stages of growing up ( older children sit on ‘ proper ’ chairs , drink out of ‘ proper ’ cups , and use knives and forks ) , and in part defining and reinforcing certain adult identities ( father carves the joint , mother brings food from the stove ) .
14 Do n't buy a hard bed in the mistaken belief that it is good for you .
15 The common-sense view of sleep is that it is good for you , providing an opportunity for recovery from fatigue , is essential for growth , and crucial in cure from illness .
16 call it , it is good for you , natural bar
17 It is good , it is good for you .
18 Save the rainforest because it is good for us .
19 It is foolhardy for you to play around with your dog 's diet when he is known to have had urolithiasis .
20 There is no shortage of advice available to local authorities to enable them to decide whether , in uncertain circumstances , it is politic for them to seek to start proceedings , whether criminal or civil .
21 It is essential for us to improve the funeral profession 's awareness of the benefits of embalming and I would urge that the Members of this Institute , through the offices of public relations continue to provide platforms to promote the Science of Embalming .
22 It is cheaper for them to get a garden fork and go out digging for their own . ’
23 Clearly , it is cheaper for them to operate like this because they do not have regular wage bills to pay .
24 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 .
25 Prices are so low in the market because there is such a bumper crop that it is simply not worth them harvesting , as a result it is rational for them er just to leave the apples um , pears and what have you on , on the trees .
26 Sometimes Bentham is represented as having held a significantly different view from that just described , according to which an action which it is right for me to do at any moment is either one which produces a greater surplus of pleasure over pain than any alternative action then open to me ( in which case it is the one right action ) or produces as great a surplus as any alternative ( in which case it is a right action ) , while all actions not thus right are wrong .
27 But Yanek said , " I have thought about it , Grandfather , and I think it is right for me to go . "
28 I think it is right for me to receive the report and then to examine it .
29 What can be said for them is that if the High Priest is acting in the fullest awareness at present attainable by his people , it is right for him to perform the sacrifice , just as it would be right for a Western onlooker to try to dissuade him ; he is not like a Nazi who has voluntarily shut himself off from the knowledge of biology and history and the personal sensitivity attained by the culture of the Weimar Republic .
30 She took him by the hands and said eagerly , ‘ Don — we could live here — it is right for us — would you like that , Don ? ’
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