Example sentences of "for it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1948 , although living standards in general were no higher than a decade previously , the average domestic consumer was using twice as much electricity as then , but paying only half as much for it per kWh in real terms . |
| 2 | Intel is also developing a software version of Digital Video Interactive and working with Microsoft Corp to build support for it into Microsoft 's Audio Visual Interleave software , which Microsoft plans to announce at Comdex/Fall next month in a package called Video for Windows . |
| 3 | The former was escorted to safety in the North Western Hotel ; the latter ran for it into another hotel , The Stork . |
| 4 | The Craft Centre at present contains a craft shop , a tearoom and an exhibition devoted to the Harris tweed industry , and a main problem is to find suitable uses for it outside the short tourist season . |
| 5 | Of course , that is what we have to look for , and , of course , there are inevitably going to be occasions when we are compelled to look for it outside the four corners of the language that the draftsman has used . |
| 6 | It hit the platform fence and ran under the carriage ; as quick as a flash the boy darted past Charlotte and Albert and tried to look for it under the wheels . |
| 7 | Death after 12/11/74 attracts estate duty at CTT rates ; if the determination or disposal was before 13/11/74 any agricultural relief is as for estate duty , there is no timber relief but the exempting provisions of Section 5 ( 2 ) of the Finance Act , 1894 , can apply ; and the duty on any qualifying property may be paid by instalments by the persons accountable for it under Section 44 of the Finance Act , 1950 . |
| 8 | It does n't get at what you want either but it 's one of the system that we 've got So if you write something th that you for a piece of , an essay that you got say a two one for and then you write an appalling piece , you might still get a two one for it under exam conditions |
| 9 | You know she went straight in for it without sort of seeing how well |
| 10 | I 'm well in front and I can easy just lose the hundred but I I 'll try for it without trying to knock down too many skittles . |
| 11 | Do you think you pay for it without any money Grace ? |
| 12 | A fervent follower of the tariff reform movement of Joseph Chamberlain [ q.v. ] , he began to write leaders and articles for the Morning Post under the editorship of his friend ( Sir ) Fabian Ware [ q.v. ] ; in 1906 he wrote articles for it during the course of a journey through Canada , Australia , New Zealand , and South Africa . |
| 13 | Indeed Joanne was unlucky not to claim the first set , having served for it at 5–3 . |
| 14 | Like most major private-sector companies ICI has facilities reserved for it at many of the events that dominate the social calendar , such as Glyndebourne , Ascot and Wimbledon . |
| 15 | So on the days when I lead the Micks on Mounting Guards , I do n't get breakfast , I just make up for it at lunch . |
| 16 | Speaking in Brussels , where the Community dimension of the drama is becoming a major debate , the Labour leader , Mr Neil Kinnock , said : ‘ Freedom is magnetic and it is natural that the people of Eastern Europe should lunge for it at their first chance . ’ |
| 17 | Repetitive enough to appeal to Matthew , 4 , who asked for it at bedtime four nights running , and with sophisticated touches appreciated by William , 6 , normally a boy of the He Man persuasion . |
| 18 | Last month the European Socialist group , the largest in the European Parliament , threatened to sack the entire commission because the charter had been watered down in a vain attempt to secure Mrs Thatcher 's backing for it at the Strasbourg summit . |
| 19 | Gassendi adopted it enthusiastically and argued for it at great length . |
| 20 | Besides , she 's too old for it at forty-five . |
| 21 | Just now we did n't have any name for it at all , and it was just The Bar , like it always was , the bar . |
| 22 | It was commissioned from the sculptor by the sixth Duke of Bedford and , once transported from Rome , housed in the Temple of the Graces specially built for it at Woburn . |
| 23 | He could think of no reason for it at all , in fact . |
| 24 | The fairy Grandmarina appears , and gives Alicia a magic fishbone that will bring her whatever she wishes for ‘ provided she wishes for it at the right time ’ . |
| 25 | High illiteracy rates and a chronic lack of skilled manpower meant that the new government regarded educational provision as politically and economically important and popular demand for it at all levels was considerable . |
| 26 | The experience of playing with one , or on one , was astonishing ; nothing I had read had prepared me for it at all . |
| 27 | It seems odd , in retrospect , to see governments delegating so passively their most important educational function , but there were two main reasons for it at the time . |
| 28 | When the post of Missioner at Warrington became vacant , he applied for it at the age of 38 , and he remained at Warrington until his retirement thirty years later . |
| 29 | To and fro , weaving , sometimes tied back to the point , moving from point to point , guided by Jennifer , each woman deeply involved with the dual effort of formulating an opinion and arguing for it at the same time . |
| 30 | The real value of regression therapy is demonstrated when the patient is aware of how he or she acts in certain circumstances but can find no reason for it at all . |