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

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1 And , naturally a leather suite is as notable for its longlasting looks as it is for its enduring comfort .
2 In England , no such evidence has come forward , but it is for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland to decide whether he is convinced by the evidence .
3 It is for your good , my dearest !
4 I 've just been at a two day conference at erm not very far from here , at Wisden House in which erm a number of erm top industrialists erm led by the former chairman of I C I have all unanimously been saying how bad they think it is for our future technological development and export development if overseas students get out of the habit of coming here .
5 What a terrible thing it is for our literary establishment to be peopled by degenerates like this , he felt .
6 However that may be , there are reasons for thinking that the abandonment of England , and of any hopes for her , was not much less momentous for Pound than it is for his English readers .
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