Example sentences of "it [adj] for [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or was it possible for one individual to be in the position of a net ‘ receiver ’ for some considerable time because of an expectation that they would be able to reciprocate at some stage in the future ? |
| 2 | This makes it possible for anybody to create a professionally polished performance that can then be shown to an audience using either the Mac itself , 35 mm slides or overhead projector foils , backed up with printed handouts and speaker notes . |
| 3 | It says its Mature Answer Bases make it possible for anyone to support an ‘ Answer Based product . ’ |
| 4 | It was important to find out whether Riddle 's body could have been in the Wheel and , if it could , was it possible for anyone other than Jordan to have put it there ? |
| 5 | ‘ Think it possible for anyone to add poison to a dish intended for Sir Thomas , Mr Didier ? ’ |
| 6 | How is it possible for someone to take my or anybody 's sin upon himself ? |
| 7 | Nobody likes to think about death … especially premature death … but the miracles of modern medicine now make it possible for someone who dies to give life to another . |
| 8 | Snobbish Rufus had not thought it possible for someone like that to live there , but why not , after all ? |
| 9 | In the sentence below , the underlying attitude of the speaker is betrayed somewhat by the adverb actually ( suggesting " you may not believe this " ) , and one understands as in ( 69 ) that he would not have thought it possible for someone to be so audacious as the public relations officer was : ( 70 ) But Drew was as determined as any Soviet Commissar to fulfil his self-imposed quota , and the fuse to his temper began smouldering whenever anyone suggested the 15% target might be overly ambitious . |
| 10 | but you 've got to you 've got to address both of those schools and ask yourself is it right for one to subsidise another . |
| 11 | The baby made it different for everyone . |
| 12 | We want to make it easy for everyone to go abroad on holiday , regardless of limited mobility or other handicaps . |
| 13 | Harvard Graphics Windows is one of the latest generation of presentation packages that make it easy for anybody to produce a stylish and professional looking presentation suitable for any type of audience . |
| 14 | It makes it impossible for anyone to creep around your house without making a noise . |
| 15 | But what really made it impossible for anyone to convict me was when , to my astonishment , a frail , bent old man appeared in the witness box . |
| 16 | When Edmund Wilson attended a performance of The Confidential Clerk , however , he found it " rudimentary " ; everyone in London seemed to agree with him but , he said , " respect for Eliot had made it impossible for anyone to commit himself by printing a sincere opinion " . |
| 17 | Was n't it obvious for everyone to see ? |
| 18 | On 12 August 1746 the Disarming Act became law , making it illegal for anyone in the Highlands to own or carry specified types of weapon , including broadswords , or to wear Highland costume . |
| 19 | Would she think it fair for someone to lose their job for pinching her posterior on the Indie escalator ? |
| 20 | When he thought one might be possible , he was immensely sentimental , would give up everything for a lover ; yet it was his own exigence that made it difficult for anyone to live up to him , to match his quick apprehension , his wide range of interests , the fervour with which he experienced everything . |
| 21 | It pretends that there 's single no-fault ground for divorce — that the marriage has irretrievably broken down — but in practice it encourages nearly three-quarters of divorcing couples to rely on fault based grounds — adultery , or unreasonable behaviour as it 's usually called — and then makes it difficult for anybody to defend allegations , irrespective of whether that was the real reason why the marriage broke down . |
| 22 | But was it common for everybody to do that ? |
| 23 | The cross-curricular and cross-stage nature of health education make it necessary for someone within the school to take responsibility for co-ordinating the programme . |
| 24 | " The whole complex story of AIDS is dealt with in clear text , simple diagrams and universally excellent photographs … will teach most doctors more about AIDS than half a dozen lectures — its accuracy and simplicity of style make it suitable for anyone connected with the management of patients . |
| 25 | Now , as the bloke said there , the only way you can do that with people coming in from the outside is that British Gas have got to keep pushing their prices up to make it worthwhile for somebody else to come in . |
| 26 | Maiden explains sailing terms with little diagrams making it enjoyable for anybody to pick up and read . |