Example sentences of "it [be] [adj] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm lucky , but few single people have homes of their own and it 's illegal for an unmarried couple to get a room in a hotel . |
| 2 | And while it 's impossible for an everyday motor cyclist to imagine what 's involved in taming a 500 , the New Age stars talk of their craft so matter-of-factly . |
| 3 | It must be a problem if people sort of leave their children in nurseries all the time cos it 's nice for a short time but for a long long time they 're just not yours are they any more ? |
| 4 | What , what it 's frustrating for a slow bowler is that if the batsman put his left pad down the wicket and held his bat up in the air , clearly not playing his shot for all to see , then I 'm sure that we , you know , it , the batsman be given out L B W quite frequently , but because the bat is hovering just behind that left pad erm , he 's never given out . |
| 5 | It 's good for a direct amp-type sound ; I ca n't crank an amplifier up here that loud , so to get a good sound I might as well put it straight into the desk . ’ |
| 6 | Their music has hints of The Waterboys , New Model Army and The Clash and it 's perfect for a good ole stomp . |
| 7 | It 's perfect for a special occasion or a video . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It 's OK for a young man , strong like Drew . |
| 9 | Now , it 's illogical for a so-called Government that 's in power with all the financial expertise to talk about getting shut of it and leave it in to cause misery to people . |
| 10 | He added : ‘ I suppose it 's natural for an only daughter to want to be with her mother at a time like this , particularly with a first baby . ’ |
| 11 | It 's difficult for a Black girl to get a credit card . |
| 12 | There 're so many wild oranges on the island that when they 're ripe the boys and girls go out in gangs , pick them by the thousand , squeeze out all the juice and let it ferment in casks until it 's ready for a week-long celebration . |
| 13 | Also , he does not adequately discuss how to relate those critical success factors in a logically connected way through a model for improving competitive strength in a specific situation , and fails to recognize that it is essential for a strategic analysis to indicate who is responsible for which central success factor . |
| 14 | C it is shown that the demand for futures can be split into speculative and hedging components , and that it is rational for a risk-averse trader to speculate and hedge simultaneously in the same future . |
| 15 | The evidence is slender — nothing more than a feline jaw-bone — but it is convincing for a special reason . |
| 16 | Turning to movements within the income distribution , mean-variance analysis has been used to illustrate that progressive income taxation will tend to lower the amount of risk-taking it is optimal for a utility-maximizing individual to undertake . |
| 17 | However , it will certainly be true that it is optimal for a risk-neutral party to take all risk from a risk-averse party ( try A or B bargaining with C ) and it would seem sensible that a more risk-averse party should optimally take on less of the risk than a less risk-averse one . |
| 18 | The power of the minister arises under the National Health Service Act 1977 if he considers that by reason of an emergency it is necessary for a specified period to transfer functions from one body to another . |
| 19 | It is usual for a given level to be entirely duple or entirely triple ( although variation across levels is more common ) . |
| 20 | Conservation cleaning is an expensive process and prices vary wildly , though it is worthwhile for a valuable or fragile article : Mr Dore will give an estimate in advance . |
| 21 | In this case , as shown in the diagram , it is impossible for a full employment equilibrium to be reached by means of a shifting LM curve alone . |
| 22 | Yet it is impossible for an ordinary woman , perhaps with two or three young children , or by now middle-aged , to live up to the sexual fantasies built up within the containing cell . |
| 23 | Thus , although it is preferable for a definite noun phrase to be assigned a referent , a failure to do so does not justify rejecting the reading altogether ( if that were done , then , for example , the initial sentence ‘ John put a bowl on the floor ’ would be rejected as incoherent ) . |
| 24 | It is normal for a fixed term tenancy to begin on one of the usual quarter days ( 25 March , 24 June , 29 September and 25 December ) . |
| 25 | It is rare for a Royal to openly criticise Government policy . |
| 26 | It is rare for an overseas couple to find jobs in the same area — most travel to obtain a job wherever offered . |
| 27 | Where kids become worldly-wise with such rapidity , it is easy for a certain laissez-faire to creep in ; they expect to have unbridled access to everything , and in the long run this is not doing any favours to either party concerned . |
| 28 | It is one of the most popular butchers in the area and it is easy for a small child to slip out unnoticed . |
| 29 | It is easy for a well-fed English-woman like myself to shake with anger about the futility of war , to protest about the iniquity of racial prejudice and to deplore the helplessness of little people in the face of vast political forces fighting for power . |
| 30 | ‘ Madame Kettle is this evening a very angry lady … and when people are angry , it is easy for an experienced interrogator like myself to make them talk . ’ |