Example sentences of "it is [adj] for them " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In Italy young women live with their families ; it is unheard-of for them to leave home . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They do it so rarely that it is good for them . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is cheaper for them to get a garden fork and go out digging for their own . ’ |
| 8 | Clearly , it is cheaper for them to operate like this because they do not have regular wage bills to pay . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 : |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | So money can be found when the Government feel that it is necessary for them to sustain their vote throughout the country . |
| 16 | They say that they are following this course because bookshops are essentially ineffective in expanding their market and that it is unreasonable for them to be restricted to selling their product to us alone . |
| 17 | It is usual for them to come in two equal length pieces to fit a central ferrule . |
| 18 | Bankers retaliate by pointing out that accountants ' advice is invariably based on historic record rather than future possibility , and that it is impossible for them to give impartial advice if they have been auditing their clients ' books over the past years . |
| 19 | Some diets may emerge so hard that it is impossible for them to be eaten by weanling mice . |
| 20 | mainly in those areas which concern women ; it is impossible for them to disappear from one day to the next . |
| 21 | If the mud flats freeze over , it is impossible for them to find sufficient food . |
| 22 | Reforms aimed at refashioning the welfare state , so that it acts as a floor on which the underclass can build by their own efforts , rather than a ceiling through which it is impossible for them to pass , are considered in Part IV . |
| 23 | They need those decision structures because it is impossible for them to know enough to control activities directly . |
| 24 | Where standards are qualitative rather than quantitative , it is preferable for them to be expressed in terms of end-results rather than of methods . |
| 25 | All are important elements of life in old age , and in maintaining both independence and freedom from ill-health , yet older people often avoid taking exercise because of the widespread ageist assumption that it is dangerous for them to be too active . |
| 26 | It is customary to offer a drink or a snack to guests and , in some circumstances , it is impolite for them to refuse . |
| 27 | It is helpful for them to recognize that if they intend to carry through what they say , they may need to reduce the number of demands that they make on the child . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Yet it is rare for them to be made to take the responsibility for it . |
| 30 | Young people with no job lose confidence and it is easy for them to slide into living in reversal of night and day . |