Example sentences of "it is for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one can notice the absence of something one must already know what it is for things to be absent . |
| 2 | But Making Out highlights how important it is for women to have a job and be with other women workers — often in very crummy circumstances , but actually being very resilient with a lot of humour and girl talk . |
| 3 | Look how difficult it is for women to get on in the medical or legal profession ! |
| 4 | It is as much about who I am as it is about how I look , and about how difficult it is for women to separate the two . |
| 5 | In Kuwait it is just that we by the way in Kuwait we have two courts , we have the civil courts and we have the Islamic court , and erm Islamic cases go to the Islamic court and otherwise they go to the civil court , except just we we accept erm how to live our live in a modern way and keeping up with the times , and it is a tradition that we have adopted in Kuwait , and the fact that it is for women can drive in Kuwait versus those that do n't in Saudi Arabia , I do n't believe I 'd like to put that in the Islamic context , it 's just a way of life which we have adopted . |
| 6 | It is surprising how easy it is for businessmen to assume that other nationalities will react in exactly the same way as they themselves do . |
| 7 | I can not stress enough how important it is for teachers to realise that because drama is such a powerful tool for helping people change , as teachers we need to be very sensitive to the emotional demands we make on our students . |
| 8 | It is for cases of this kind , where the evidence shows that there was active persuasion rather than compassionate assistance to someone already determined to commit suicide , that a substantial maximum penalty is thought necessary . |
| 9 | It seems it is for hours , but neither of us are fighters . |
| 10 | It 's amazing how difficult it is for strangers to find the main entrance to many schools , particularly when the school is a modern flat roofed single storey building . |
| 11 | If you want an Italian restaurant where the waiters bring you menus instead of shouting at you , where they leave the lights on instead of turning them off every twenty minutes , and where they make you get up and dance before they 'll turn them on again , then do n't try the Vecchio Reccione , however convenient it is for Stringfellows . |
| 12 | We all know how difficult it is for scientists to obtain their due recognition . |
| 13 | It is for strings alone — try , if you can , to bear it . ’ |
| 14 | It is for ministers to determine themselves , whether they answer by means of a written question or whether they make an oral statement . |
| 15 | It is for ministers themselves to decide whether they do that , the speaker has no authority in in determining that . |
| 16 | It is for others to offer moral guidance to the newly prosperous Pharisees . |
| 17 | John-Paul Sartre , in Being and Nothingness , writes : ‘ So far as the physicians have had any experience with my body , it was with my body in the midst of the world and as it is for others . |
| 18 | The argument also assumes ( b ) that I can understand what it is for others to have mental states . |
| 19 | Not surprisingly therefore , the results of the 1983 survey show that mass unemployment ‘ has created a serious new risk of what can only be regarded as downward social mobility — and that risk is much greater for men in working class positions , by whatever route they come into them , than it is for others ’ ( p. 17 ) . |
| 20 | Starting and staying in business is more difficult for certain types of people than it is for others . |
| 21 | The most familiar description perhaps is that given by Lord Wright in Davies v Powell Duffryn Associated Collieries Ltd ( No 2 ) [ 1942 ] AC 601 at p611 : It is not a claim which the deceased could have pursued in his own lifetime because it is for damages suffered not by himself , but by his family after his death . |
| 22 | It is for Members themselves to raise matters of privilege . |
| 23 | We all know how difficult it is for members of the security forces and their families , and we should now be aware that they are at risk all the time . |
| 24 | Is n't it , but you do n't you think that 's more so for females than it is for males , the fact that it is such a dirty thing that , that applies more to females than it does , to males ? |
| 25 | Further in relation to females , wastage is considerably more difficult to explain when using student characteristics , than it is for males . |
| 26 | I can not over-emphasise how important it is for cyclists , that any barrier should allow enough room to pass through without dismounting . |
| 27 | A recent report published by the EOC revealed how difficult it is for girls in YTP . |
| 28 | Parents generally worry less about the sexual behaviour of their sons , and teaching boys about sex and contraception is sometimes considered less crucial than it is for girls . |
| 29 | How easy or difficult it is for girls to tell their parents that they are pregnant also depends on how accustomed they are to confiding in their mothers or fathers about periods , boyfriends , sex and contraception . |
| 30 | It is for refugees in Britain that I am writing to ask for your help . |