Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adj] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If it were possible for the Football League to kick him out of the club , that 's what I want . |
| 2 | Yes she were having a look at a lamb , seeing if it were alright for the thing and er we decided that they would n't be alright because where her shed thing is , it 's too far away from house . |
| 3 | When the headmaster telephoned the boy 's father , he was told by that unusually permissive parent that , if the teachers could not hold his son 's attention , it was better for the boy to educate himself at home . |
| 4 | The parents decided it was better for the child to be taken away . ’ |
| 5 | That he was not abstracting water but merely utilizing it and returning to the river the same amount in improved condition , because contact with the turbine had aerated it , and it was better for the fish . |
| 6 | ( 2 ) ( a ) The justices were under a duty to consider whether it was better for the child for a secure accommodation order to be made rather than no order at all being made upon the application ( in accordance with section 1(5) of the Children Act 1989 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ The justices were under a duty to consider whether it was better for the child for a secure accommodation order to be made rather than no order at all being made upon the application in accordance with section 1(5) of the Children Act . |
| 8 | 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 " |
| 9 | ‘ It was right for the truth to come out . |
| 10 | He said he would be happy to quit next week ‘ if the right offer came and it was right for the club ’ . |
| 11 | The poet 's wife tried to avoid going , by saying that it was late for the child and that she would have expected her husband not to be curious . |
| 12 | It was due for the chop and you know it . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Site value rating would tax ‘ the market rental of each site on the assumption that it was available for the most profitable permissible development ’ ( Layfield 1976 : 170 ) . |
| 15 | It was illegal for the Food Controller to require such an agreement as a condition of any licence . |
| 16 | It was illegal for the Food Controller to require such an agreement as a condition of any licence . |
| 17 | Being medieval , she thought it was unsuitable for the church to be visibly glittering , but , if the pews and the brass were n't polished , it quickly looked sad and Anna did not like it to look sad . |
| 18 | In my judgment it was appropriate for the judge to take into account the interests of the children . |
| 19 | Your Lordships then invited the parties to consider whether they wished to present further argument on the question whether it was appropriate for the House ( under Practice Statement ( Judicial Precedent ) [ 1966 ] 1 W.L.R. 1234 ) to depart from previous authority of this House which forbids reference to such material in construing statutory provisions and , if so , what guidance such material provided in deciding the present appeal . |
| 20 | Ingleton School is a Church of England junior and infant school and Mr Boocock said he thought it was appropriate for the issue of the church 's role in education to be discussed in church . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | As large companies are heavily dependent on bank loans , and with banks tending to lend beyond their means it was crucial for the Bank of Japan as final guarantor to support the banking system . |
| 23 | Here again , it was easy for the grandchildren to call in frequently : the two houses were both in the same ‘ raw — this ‘ raw ’ was a row of houses . |
| 24 | Most trade union leaders favoured the war , among them Havelock Wilson , and it was easy for the more romantic to suppose that , now there was a common enemy , all other conflicts would be shelved " for the duration " which would not , as most supposed , be a long one . |
| 25 | It was easy for the Jews to comply with this custom because Hecataeus of Abdera had produced a little model of what was expected of them . |
| 26 | It was easy for the Doctor to get Indian animals . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | DUP councillor Sammy Wilson said at last week 's monthly meeting of the council it was unnecessary for the Lord Mayor to attend the Hong Kong trip as Belfast would be well represented by Laganisde board members , amongst others . |
| 29 | no , I 'm sure one of you says it was seventy for the coast road , it 's only a two way traffic |
| 30 | ‘ It was confusing for the typist , ’ said police chief Robert Deziel of Dearborn , Michigan . |