Example sentences of "what is [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are one of those women who feels guilty about the marriage/home/work situation , sit down and decide what is right for you and those closest to you . |
| 2 | He may even live the kind of life he does not really like simply because he feels that because everyone else is so much wiser than he is they must know best about what is right for him . |
| 3 | They were in favour of the A3 eastern bypass and in any future discussions would support ‘ what is right for Grayshott ’ . |
| 4 | Parents and teachers are the leaders , and the child is expected to obey them because they ‘ know best ’ what is right for the individual and the society he/she is being prepared or ( as some would have it ) fitted for . |
| 5 | He 's already been denied £4,000 in not facing the Windies , and said from his Melbourne home last night : ‘ The selectors have put me in the position where I have to work out what is right for my family and me . ’ |
| 6 | It would have been easy for me just to put off the difficult decisions we need to take , but I must do what is right for this country . |
| 7 | Only you can know what is right for you — so only you can make the final decision . |
| 8 | The core of morality was seen by Kant in the ‘ categorical imperative ’ , the unconditional demand upon us to do what is right for its own sake . |
| 9 | However , in our experience the matter is less clear-cut and what is right for some is not the solution for others . |
| 10 | I know what is right for my child , but I 'm not supposed to say . |
| 11 | There is a view that is as old , probably , as the human race , and certainly as old as Homer and the ancient Greeks , that there is one ethical structure that represents right for men : a composite of manly virtues , such as courage , endurance , physical stamina , wiliness and political judgement , and a corresponding but complementary conception of what is right for women , womanly virtue being seen as a mixture of timidity , tenderness , compliance , docility , softness , innocence and domestic competence . |
| 12 | But how do you decide what is right for them and you ? |
| 13 | Again , there is nothing wrong with it except that it is " do as I say " and not " let's find out what is right for you " . |
| 14 | I mean to stop hating , but to go on fighting for what is right for my people . ’ |
| 15 | This African talked of his own change of heart , his vision of God 's multi-racial world , of which Rhodesia is a part ; of how he himself had hated the whites , and had now shed his hate to work for what is right for all . |
| 16 | It is clear from earlier research that each school has to work through , to an extent , what is right for the particular people involved and that there will be ups and down . |
| 17 | Wilko must do what is right for the team , not what is best to save face . |
| 18 | With the availability of different types of religion increasing , there is more choice and people can find what is right for them . |
| 19 | You should know what is normal for you and consult your GP if any changes occur which concern you . |
| 20 | You should know what is normal for you and consult your GP if any changes occur which concern you . |
| 21 | What is curious for the observer from the twentieth century is the debate about the possibility of secular education , something after all we now take for granted , although we do hear of debates over the teaching of ‘ creationism ’ in backwoods . |
| 22 | You can also save time by deciding what is essential for your horse 's comfort and what is dictated by tradition . |
| 23 | What is essential for free fall is that the capsule is not powered and that the atmospheric drag is negligibly small . |
| 24 | Their policy-making styles vary according to what is optimal for the function concerned . |
| 25 | Women in the community need to find out what is possible for us as a prerequisite to identifying what is not available and what we would like to see . |
| 26 | It is not possible , however , to come to any conclusion about the usefulness of testing and inspection ( outsider evaluations ) without considering what is possible for schools to do themselves ( Becher et al , 1979 , go on to consider the merits of school-based approaches ) . |
| 27 | What is possible for a large suburban congregation is out of the question for a tiny congregation in a rural situation . |
| 28 | While recognising the ultimate necessity of making a stand against German threats to British interests , The Times called for " a supreme effort … to do what is possible for appeasement before that point is reached " . |
| 29 | What has changed above all over the century is the view of what is possible for the individual to decide for herself . |
| 30 | This sounds very bland but in practice it is complicated by the fact that what is nice for one person is nasty for another and vice versa . |