Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] be for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boyle spoke yesterday of how delighted he was for the two athletes and the satisfaction their golden double gave him . |
| 2 | Teaming up with the Unanimous Decision Crew he talks us through a languid groove based story of how ‘ hard it is for a black man to get a job ’ , ‘ If you 're black , what 's your destination ? ’ he enquires . |
| 3 | They often discussed his family together and how hard it was for a single man to bring up children alone . |
| 4 | Generally speaking , the longer the period of planning for an escape the more satisfactory it was for the prospective escaper . |
| 5 | You see there , there was a er not paying for it , asking about it , the finance committee how very cold it was for the elderly and they sit in there while some get taken home and |
| 6 | ‘ You 're right , it was n't , but something has changed and I 'm not at all sure it 's for the best . ’ |
| 7 | It is less immediately evident that such an understanding should be necessary in order to account for the formal properties of code switching , although I would argue strongly that it is , inasmuch as the extent to which switching may take place is in part a function of the extent to which the codes involved have " fused " within a community , i.e. how interchangeable they are for the different purposes of everyday interaction . |
| 8 | She remembered the bride of one year , alight with the happiness of those early celebrations when the Grand Duke had granted the first liberties , and thought how strange it was for an English woman to be so mad with joy . |
| 9 | For Dr Petruska Clarkson , Director of the Metanoia Psychotherapy Training Institute the disturbing picture now emerging is a brutally clear example of how difficult it is for a human being to adjust to a radically different reality . |
| 10 | That elected governments find it necessary to bow to the wishes of big privately owned companies , that the organs which so largely shape public opinion can be bought and sold by millionaires and treated by them simply as pieces of private property ( which is ' of course , what they are ) , demonstrates how difficult it is for an active and effective democracy to coexist with monopoly capitalism . |
| 11 | Whatever he wore he looked marvellous in , and Fran 's heart tripped alarmingly as she appreciated how attractive he was for the umpteenth time . |