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 | 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 . |
| 8 | So money can be found when the Government feel that it is necessary for them to sustain their vote throughout the country . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is usual for them to come in two equal length pieces to fit a central ferrule . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Some diets may emerge so hard that it is impossible for them to be eaten by weanling mice . |
| 13 | mainly in those areas which concern women ; it is impossible for them to disappear from one day to the next . |
| 14 | If the mud flats freeze over , it is impossible for them to find sufficient food . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They need those decision structures because it is impossible for them to know enough to control activities directly . |
| 17 | Where standards are qualitative rather than quantitative , it is preferable for them to be expressed in terms of end-results rather than of methods . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It is customary to offer a drink or a snack to guests and , in some circumstances , it is impolite for them to refuse . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Yet it is rare for them to be made to take the responsibility for it . |
| 22 | Young people with no job lose confidence and it is easy for them to slide into living in reversal of night and day . |
| 23 | Because they are experts and you are not it is easy for them to take the initiative . |
| 24 | Because the eggs are so small and so widespread it is easy for them to be swallowed . |
| 25 | It is easy for them to play football , it 's like other sports but I mean , people say that sports is nay for women ! |
| 26 | Clearly this is no place for novices but it is possible for them , if armed with a torch and wearing boots and clothes that do n't matter , to go into one hole and emerge from the other , the two entrance passages converging after fifteen yards of stumbling progress . |
| 27 | Low-rise houses , on the contrary , can be improved and extended by their occupants as and when it is possible for them to do so . |
| 28 | It is possible for them ( or for you on their behalf ) to make application direct to the social services department . |
| 29 | Members of congress , by contrast , enjoy great power without responsibility ; it is possible for them to wallow in carping criticism and to engage in other negative tactics free from the anxiety of ever having to shoulder the responsibility for government — a burden that the president can not escape . |
| 30 | When their control is threatened it is possible for them to obtain relief by displacing a prominently misbehaving pupil . |