Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] it [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He dropped the letter on to his desk where it fluttered for a moment , an innocent reminder of the arrangement made in that grey stone house in Ghent . |
| 2 | The meeting , to be followed by talks between their heads of government tomorrow , could head off a Russian threat to cut off natural gas supplies to Ukraine unless it pays for the gas it received in January . |
| 3 | The Gould machine was set like clockwork to continue ticking as methodically for the next two years as it had for the last eight . |
| 4 | According to Mr Hagger the company has lost many thousands of pounds because it paid for a loan that was not forthcoming . |
| 5 | ‘ I want to see the return of the Yorkshire Ridings and the abolition of Humberside and Cleveland so that Yorkshire can again stretch from the Humber to the Tees as it did for a thousand years before 1974 , ’ said Mr Sykes . |
| 6 | ‘ I want to see the return of the Yorkshire Ridings and the abolition of Humberside and Cleveland so that Yorkshire can again stretch from the Humber to the Tees as it did for a thousand years before 1974 , ’ said Mr Sykes . |
| 7 | If competitors and circumstances are regarded as the " enemy " then It makes as much sense for a corporation to have alternative objectives as it does for a military commander . |
| 8 | Militarisation worked for the Nazis as it had for the Prussians in that it helped control large numbers of people , allowed a cheap and easy growth of populist emotion and nationalist identity and became the mainspring of industry by providing demand . |
| 9 | In this context , " design " has the same definition as it does for the purposes of the design right and a design document includes a drawing or other documents such as specifications , photographs and data stored in a computer . |
| 10 | The recognition of the effects of conscious or unconscious value judgements on scientific theories raises the question of relativism as it occurs for the sociology of knowledge : ‘ Are all ideologies of equal value , at least , as far as the search for truth is concerned ? ’ |
| 11 | The train braked to a shuddering halt at the Paisley signal box where it remained for the next thirty minutes whilst the driver and guard proceeded to examine the underside and topside of the train . |
| 12 | For the top and intermediate Party leadership , Hitler 's image stood therefore in far closer relationship to reality than it did for the broad mass of the population . |
| 13 | For most LDCs the export of primary commodities no longer guarantees economic growth as it did for the USA , Canada , Sweden , etc. , in the 1800s . |
| 14 | His remarks , in a Daily Telegraph interview , triggered protests from right-wing Tory MPs and pitched the Cabinet into more controversy as it met for the first time since the summer break . |
| 15 | His remarks , in a Daily Telegraph interview , triggered protests from right-wing Tory MPs and pitched the Cabinet into more controversy as it met for the first time since the summer break . |
| 16 | Now the beer is ready for the final stage in the brewery before it leaves for the pub cellar . |
| 17 | This series of squares is disquieting as it heads for the horizon unless it allows for the curvature of the Earth . |
| 18 | Under its new chief executive , John Houliston , big changes have been taking place at Dairy Crest as it prepares for a stock market flotation next year . |
| 19 | The fit is polished as many times as it takes for the residuals to show no more evidence of a relationship with the X values — for the slope to be zero ; the slope usually changes by gradually smaller and smaller amounts , and converges on a stable result . |
| 20 | This is only true if the image is projected for less time than it takes for the eye to move . |
| 21 | This is only true if the image is projected for less time than it takes for the eye to move . |
| 22 | Gallons of intoxicating percussion guided rhythms fuel ‘ Pot Of Gold ’ like a train rampaging along an empty track as it goes for an energetic jog in the shadows , pacing along a tireless circuit . |