Example sentences of "it is for [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only way to solve it is for something to be done to those four officers , something done to the Korean lady who shot the girl , something done to the Compton policeman who killed those two Samoan brothers … |
| 2 | Compare , ‘ One learns what it is for something to be absent through things being absent ’ ; and , ‘ One learns what it is for something to be absent through noticing the absence of things ’ . |
| 3 | Compare , ‘ One learns what it is for something to be absent through things being absent ’ ; and , ‘ One learns what it is for something to be absent through noticing the absence of things ’ . |
| 4 | He starts by remarking that scientists and ( at that time ; he was writing in the 1950s ) philosophers usually take science as the understanding of an independent reality , with the presumptions that they know what it is for something to be ‘ real ’ and for someone to ‘ understand ’ it . |
| 5 | This naturally prompts the question what it is for one purely particular object to stand for another . |
| 6 | Where it breaks down and you get a governing body that is split down the middle , where you get staff who tend to who might tend to go in an opposite way to the head teacher , where you get parents who are asked to make difficult decisions as with an opt out ballot , then I think that you have to look very hard at the way that that school is managed and the way that it 's going in the future , because those are the sort of issues that unless you get those right the future for the school can not be as bright as it is for one where they are working as a team . |
| 7 | It is for everyone in local offices but is particularly relevant to Client Advisers . |
| 8 | A few are ‘ trying out ’ policing by joining the reserves first , although the common view amongst the reserve police is that it is harder for them to transfer to the regulars than it is for someone without experience to sign up straight away because of the greater number of reasons the police authorities are thereby given for turning them down . |
| 9 | To whom in particular the blame for this disaster should be attributed , it is for someone in the ministry with all the facts at their fingertips to determine . |
| 10 | It is for someone to support the person whilst they try to unravel their thoughts in such a way that it becomes clear that they can say anything , no matter how bizarre or odd it sounds , because that will be the way they sort out their feelings in order to cope with them . |
| 11 | And from this account of empirical meaning there naturally arises an account of what it is for someone to understand a statement , or to know its meaning : |
| 12 | You see the problem again is that , is the same as it is for anybody , next week is just planning , as it were , you know , this is what it 's about , why did the general management not sit down and say , oh that 's peak time to have them out we can not have all them indoors in there from , that 's a full morning . |
| 13 | I had to disclose the fact but its full comprehension will not be essential in the sequel , however vital it is for anyone attempting a professional grasp of quantum theory . |
| 14 | The more people who stand firm the harder it is for anyone to whisk it away . ’ |