Example sentences of "[verb] for it in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the seller wants a margin , he must stipulate for it in the contractual description . |
| 2 | But the politicians are looking for it in the wrong direction . |
| 3 | ‘ You ask : how do you advance the public interest , how do you provide for it in the best way ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ With the Smart Rope , the condition of the rope being hired is visible and the hirer can sign for it in the full knowledge of its condition , ’ says Jim Oag . |
| 5 | Yes you normally pay for it in the following year . |
| 6 | Accepting that you will need to provide either training or re-training for your existing staff means that you will remember to budget for it in the overall cost of the system . |
| 7 | I was running the wrong race ; I should never have been entered for it in the first place . |
| 8 | If we want something , then we go for it in the best possible way we know . |
| 9 | The case of DEC is tantalising : either the Alpha will do for the company what the VAX 8600 — quickly supplanted by the VAX 8650 — did for it in the 1980s , and the vast installed base of VAX machines will be replaced by Alpha AXPs , giving the company three years of fantastic growth that propel it to $25,000m , or the desperately late Alpha and the new OpenVMS will turn out to have too many bugs and glitches to be trusted , in which case , DEC will be trotting off after IBM . |
| 10 | The contrast between British Socialism , as then exemplified by trade unionism , and LEGA , could hardly be sharper ; the first , insistent on its traditional and conservative role , the role dispensed for it in the Victorian era by evolving Capitalism — to purvey labour to employing capital ; the second , looking towards a synthesis to accommodate and resolve the opposed interests contained in that dispensation , looking towards ‘ the third way ’ . |
| 11 | There is a kind of confidence , typified in the prayer to Christ the source of sweet honey-cells of devotion , which is at odds with the stark mood provoked by a revulsion from sin in the whole piece and which is very different from the whole thrust of the short version : The profound realisation of Jesus as a source of grace at the heart of this passage in the long version colours the meditator 's longing for it in the other expanded meditations that open out of this sequence of prayers . |