Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may mean changing your own procedures , but if it also means changing your bank balance for the better it may be well worth it . |
| 2 | This means that for the first one the doubt is ‘ simple ’ and can be cleared up in a straightforward way , but for the second it is ‘ compound ’ and needs much greater care . |
| 3 | From the start of welfare provision for the disabled it was recognized that social workers would have a key role to play in putting the handicapped in touch with the provision available . |
| 4 | A lot of aggressive publicity and marketing surrounds funboard design , and for the uninitiated it is difficult to understand what is going on . |
| 5 | Many educationalists in the nineteenth century believed that for the young it was right to teach only what was certain , such as geometry and classical languages ; once these had been mastered it would be all right to get on to more hypothetical subjects . |
| 6 | For the former it allowed the husband time to concentrate on other enterprises whilst in the case of the latter it reduced the work that had to be done by the husband on his return from his off-farm job . |
| 7 | The main difference between the utilitarianism of Hutcheson and Hume , and that of Bentham , is that for the former it figured mainly as an account of our actual moral feelings , whereas for the latter it was not only this but even more the basis of a critique of current morality . |
| 8 | For the former it is a work of art reflecting a particular symbolic way of describing certain believed truths . |
| 9 | For the unwary it is a feeling as infectious as embarrassment or flirtatiousness . |
| 10 | For the tongue-tied it 's worth preparing some stock comments and even preparing for social chit-chat by noting interesting stories in the media . |
| 11 | For the latter it is better to buy a tape , or to make your own , and listen to that , rather than to try to do it yourself as you go along . |
| 12 | The main difference between the utilitarianism of Hutcheson and Hume , and that of Bentham , is that for the former it figured mainly as an account of our actual moral feelings , whereas for the latter it was not only this but even more the basis of a critique of current morality . |
| 13 | Although both the OALD and the re-indexed CED produce 70% correct choices , the z-score for the OALD is 2.15 whereas for the CED it is 0.98 . |
| 14 | Another is food , and for the hungry it is infinitely more important than oil . |
| 15 | Meanwhile in the high-tech hospitals for the better-off it 's been business as usual . |
| 16 | For the three it 's seventy nine p . |
| 17 | For the self-employed it is either the last 26 weeks or the last year 's set of accounts which are used . |
| 18 | For the self-employed it is either the last 26 weeks or the last year 's set of accounts which are used . |
| 19 | For the self-employed it is either the last 26 weeks or the last year 's set of accounts which are used . |
| 20 | But for the converted it was worth the wait . |
| 21 | [ For the learned it is |
| 22 | First , during the 1920s it became easier to transfer freehold land , as long-standing solicitor resistance to changes in property law broke down ; a series of Property Acts from 1910 to 1925 facilitated the free and rapid transfer of small plots and single dwellings . |
| 23 | Its major development as a dual-purpose breed took place between 1920 and 1950 , but during the 1960s it was developed instead as an extreme beef type , benefiting from a degree of marbling in the meat bequeathed by its Beef Shorthorn ancestry . |
| 24 | During the 1970s it became clear that adult education was mainly serving the needs of well educated and socially advantaged members of our society . |
| 25 | During the 1980s it bought Marine Midland , a commercial bank based in upstate New York ; Carroll , McEntee & McGinley ( CM&M ) , a primary dealer in American Treasury bonds ; and James Capel , a London firm of stockbrokers . |
| 26 | During the 1980S it was increasingly argued that the world market could not support more than ten suppliers of major equipment items ( such as central office or exchange equipment ) and that Europe 's ten or more manufacturers would need to slim down to , at most four , perhaps three . |
| 27 | Secondly , during the 1980s it has been common for firms to make ‘ underwriting losses ’ . |
| 28 | er so for example , in this country our guaranteed price is quite low and in Germany it 's quite high er so what it does was whoever exports or imports between the two it tries to level the prices up . |
| 29 | One difference between perceived-as appearances and presentation appearances is that whereas it does not make sense to talk of being mistaken about the former it does make sense to talk of being mistaken about the latter . |
| 30 | All I can say is the longer you mess me about the worse it will get . |