Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adj] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was legal for landowners to seize and take to specified headmen or the village committee headquarters cattle which were found straying on cultivated or fenced land . |
| 2 | Rented accommodation other than corporation or NIHT houses was rapidly diminishing , since it was uneconomic for landlords to maintain rent-controlled housing . |
| 3 | Although until April 1980 it was illegal for beneficiaries to sell land , researchers found evidence of land being sold and also of farms that had been turned over to sharecropping . |
| 4 | A notice at the bottom of the street warned that it was unsuitable for motors . |
| 5 | Strategies , in this sense , are preprogrammed rules for action , so it was appropriate for contestants to send in their entries in computer language . |
| 6 | That is , people writing in the eighteenth century that th you know um it was appropriate for kids to be introduced to sex when they were around y'know sort of seven or eight or something in some cases . |
| 7 | Since a very large amount of material was required on staffing , syllabuses and in some cases resources , it was easy for reports to end up a pure description of a department 's programme . |
| 8 | Coun Szintai said it was easy for families to run out of money a day or two before Giro cheques were handed out . |
| 9 | As a result it was easy for protagonists to claim that opinions on test-tube fusion , particularly its validity or otherwise , were n't always made on purely scientific grounds , but that self interests were the driving forces . |
| 10 | They were contemptible , and therefore it was easy for governments to squeeze them . |
| 11 | It was easy for journalists to get jobs as copywriters . |
| 12 | In obscenity trials before the 1959 legislation it was unnecessary for juries to consider the overall impact of the subject matter on its likely readers . |
| 13 | Having a highly fragmented retail distribution system , it was normal for companies to operate through about one thousand drug wholesalers . |
| 14 | It was normal for pairs of waggon doors to face each other on opposite side walls of the barn ( Plate 2 ) , but in some barns the threshing floor could be approached only from one side , there being a blank wall opposite . |
| 15 | It was normal for women to write about love , but they were expected always to be decorous . |
| 16 | Even in western Europe it was normal for boundaries between states to be overlain by a mass of traditional rights , claims to exercise jurisdiction or to collect dues and taxes of various kinds , which made the modern idea of a frontier scarcely applicable . |
| 17 | Up to the Second World War it was normal for governments to run a balanced budget . |
| 18 | One could perhaps specify further : it was normal for disputes in Ireland to be referred to the Congregation of Propaganda , as Ireland , being part of a protestant state , fell under its jurisdiction . |
| 19 | It was normal for sentries to be given no bullets . |
| 20 | He himself had received letters from all over England , seeking his advice on questions of conscience , and found that it was unsatisfactory for Anglicans to have to rely on Roman Catholic literature for guidance in such matters . |
| 21 | ‘ But I came down to the theatre and was assured it was suitable for children so we came with open minds , ’ she said . |
| 22 | In 1670 , Richard Baxter 's book , ‘ The Cure of Church Divisions ’ was published in which he argued that it was good for Christians to continue to worship in parish churches despite the bitter hostility against Nonconformists . |
| 23 | We had a fine dairy that we er er of stone shelves and and that kept cool when everything And it was good for weeks . |
| 24 | The industrial tribunal that heard that case accepted that it was undesirable for employees to be prevented from taking time off with their families , although there were other issues involved . |
| 25 | The relevant circumstances were that : ( i ) the limitation terms had nut been negotiated by any representative body ; ( ii ) the buyers could not have discovered the error ( i. e. that the wrong seed had been delivered ) until after the crop was sown , whereas the sellers were in a position to have known ; ( iii ) the buyers could not reasonably have been expected to cover such a risk ( i.e. of crop failure ) by insurance whereas it was possible for seedsmen to cover their liability by insurance at a modest premium which would not have put up the cost of seeds by very much ; ( iv ) the error could not have occurred without some negligence on the part of the sellers . |
| 26 | Until I was lent this , I had not realised it was possible for members of the public to get their hands on such things . |
| 27 | As headteachers reported , boards operated most effectively when it was possible for members to offer constructive criticism which provided an input into the decision-making process of the school . |
| 28 | Thus it was possible for engineers to place their microphone to give a ratio of direct and reflected sound from the walls of the studio in order to achieve a pleasing artistic reproduction . |
| 29 | In those far off days , it was possible for students to study courses which suited their interests rather than the subjects most convenient for their teachers . |
| 30 | Gustason indicates that this may relate to attitude and shows further evidence on positive attitudes towards both ASL and Manual English among teachers , The problem which arose among deaf teachers was whether it was possible for teachers to use ASL in teaching . |