Example sentences of "it was [adj] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He reckoned that it was better for the new Iranian prime minister , Shapour Bakhtiar , that the Shah stayed in Muslim country and he thought that Hasans influence would help " keep Khomeini under control " |
| 2 | This meant it was available for the first two years only in London and the South-East and to people who bothered to fit a new aerial . |
| 3 | UniSoft says it was crucial for the six MIPS architecture partners — who have already spent some $1bn collectively on development — to have a migration route to a standard version of Unix . |
| 4 | Could anyone deny that it was unhealthy for a young man to become attached to a girl so early in life ? |
| 5 | She said it was unnecessary for the legal relationship of parent and child to be broken when the child was already secure in her new family . |
| 6 | It was ample for a small family of four of modest intent , yet large enough for a maid and a nurse to be employed . |
| 7 | Yes , but it 'd be easier if it was two for the two . |
| 8 | I thing recently the bus service has got dreadful since they brought in er private buses to their local areas , it was good for the first few months , but when they find out that its not paying at all , they take them off , they do n't tell you , the bus just disappears so your left with the usual one that used to be on . |
| 9 | It was memorable for the endless grind in one gully where the snow was waist-deep and we had to swim upwards , and for the point where we emerged on to the easterly ridge with views to Lyngen , and a wind that had bared the slopes and put our teeth on edge . |
| 10 | It was possible for a middle-class reader to sympathise with a girl , even if she were a countess , when she entered upon the search for an ancient royal treasure in a thoroughly youthful way , or with a boy who , even if he were a king or at the least a count in eclipse , faced danger and responsibility with the doubts and the dutiful idealism of a public-school upbringing . |
| 11 | The verdict was that Horsley had about as clean a bill of health as it was possible for a real , live capitalist to have . |
| 12 | It was possible for a poor girl with talent to rise through the Tiller hierarchy . |
| 13 | With the goal of curriculum enhancement it was possible for a junior member of staff with specific subject expertise to support a senior colleague without such expertise ; but when the goal was professional development it required a clear status differential between senior partner as trainer or consultant and junior partner as trainee or client . |
| 14 | You would n't think it was possible for a middle-aged department store manager to simply crumple before the withering scowls of his wife . |
| 15 | This talk , too , was very much influenced by French fashions and preoccupations ; and from it Zeinab acquired the notion that it was possible for a single woman to set up house on her own . |
| 16 | In Newton 's time it was possible for an educated person to have a grasp of the whole of human knowledge , at least in outline . |
| 17 | The question is whether it was possible for an ancient Athenian to possess a social representation in this sense , or whether we have to wait until the modern age for social representations to appear . |
| 18 | The case highlights the extent to which it was possible for the religious intellectuals to misjudge exactly where the consensus lay , as well as the extent to which an evolving historical situation which created areas for new decision-making provided the field for a new power contest . |
| 19 | However , in the new urban environments it was possible for the young and fit to earn good wages and therefore to be independent of their families . |
| 20 | With the advent of the new technology of lasers and holography it was possible for the first time in history to build the ancient consciousness-raising symbols out of pure light . |
| 21 | The new generation of producers that subsequently emerged came to believe it was possible for the British film industry to ‘ take on ’ the Americans , although this grand ambition had more to do with a desire to efface their inferiority complex than any serious resolve to face reality . |
| 22 | She subsided wordlessly , wondering ironically how many times it was possible for the same heart to break before there was nothing left of it . |
| 23 | We found that it was cheaper for the four Europeans to travel to America than for the two Americans to come to London or Berlin . |
| 24 | Eventually this policy was abandoned because it was unprofitable for the Russian state treasury , and from then until the early twentieth century the Chukchis had the distinction of being recognized as ‘ not completely subdued ’ , and were left largely to their own devices . |
| 25 | Miller said his resignation was because it was best for the re-emerging company . |
| 26 | Between 1950 and 1960 the Indianapolis 500 was included in the championship but it was rare for a European Grand Prix driver to compete in the race , and vice versa . |
| 27 | He needed to let off steam , and it was impossible for the other people in the bar not to overhear . |
| 28 | Mr Justice Garland ruled last week that it was impossible for the former officers to receive a fair trial because of the saturation publicity that followed the release of the six , two years ago . |
| 29 | He thought that precisely because it was impossible for the human mind to construct an idea of God from its inherent mental resources , such an idea could only be given to it by revelation — in other words directly implanted by God Himself . |
| 30 | It was impossible for the nuclear power stations to match those demands . |