Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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1 | So it produces usable power for an electric generator , without any input . |
2 | Nevertheless it took many centuries for Edinburgh to become unequivocally the royal and national capital . |
3 | Nevertheless it contains two clues for ways to improve things . |
4 | Now it took several years for er the new incentive scheme to be introduced throughout the whole of the works and I think during my last discussion you know , I did indicate that the fitters for example , you know , were about the last group to go on . |
5 | Two hundred years ago it took five days for news to get from Paris to Strasbourg . |
6 | Nevertheless AFHQ was not informed that the Croats had been turned back until the morning of 16 May , and even then it took some time for the information to be fully taken in by all branches concerned . |
7 | At least it teaches one respect for facts . |
8 | Yet it took ten years for the pope to arrive at the point he had desired in 1199 , where he could treat the parties as equals , the one and the other , alterum et alterum as he says , and make his decision in Rome . |
9 | The first record of the Works ' involvement in war-work is that of 1855 , when it supplied two locomotives for the Army on the Balaclava Railway in the Crimea . |
10 | Although this regulation of tortious liability is not of itself a contractual issue , there are some situations where it has great importance for business contracts , for instance in the area of pre-contract negotiations . |
11 | At its offices in High Holborn in London , one of the firm 's partners explains why it sets one rate for all its customers . |
12 | I think it has got to stop because apart from anything else it has knock-on consequences for other paediatricians over how strong they are going to feel in dealing with this problem . |