Example sentences of "[conj] it [be] [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it is sold out for this week 's run at the Arches , it moves next week to the Kings in Glasgow . |
| 2 | Three operations did not succeed in curing his glaucoma , and he had to give up his business in 1878 , although it was carried on for some years by his daughters , Eleanor , Elizabeth , and Catherine , as E. E. Dancer & Company . |
| 3 | The council says that it is speaking up for smokers . |
| 4 | As heir to the droit morale and guardian of the Magritte estate , Charly Herscovici explained that ‘ Inheriting this intellectual property makes me responsible for protecting the artist and his work , and ensuring that it is handed down for posterity . |
| 5 | Justice demands therefore that it be designed primarily for living . |
| 6 | The first of those from Viola was addressed in fact to ‘ Dear Walter and Hilda ’ , but it was not difficult to guess that it was intended primarily for Walter 's eyes . |
| 7 | Although ‘ Ave verum corpus ’ was evidently composed well before its publication in the first book of Gradualia ( 1605 ) , it barely circulated in manuscript ( there are only two handwritten sources ) , and there is no evidence to show that it was singled out for special attention in Catholic households . |
| 8 | The surpising thing is not that this is happening now , but rather that it was staved off for so long . |
| 9 | And it 's sparkling just for you . |
| 10 | With chains and gags and — dirt — This week , ever so efficiently filing records for this surgeon , I just happened to come across a sixteen-year-old who had his leg off last year — they 're fitting him with an artificial one , it takes months , they 're incredibly slow — and it 's started up for certain now in his other leg , he does n't know , but I know , I know lots of things . |
| 11 | She 'll go up up the path and all I could see was this cat , and it was hanging on for dear life up this big tree and there |
| 12 | A Kha-Khan did not ask ; he commanded , and it was left simply for everyone else to obey . |
| 13 | Three years ago , it would have easily surpassed its $50–80,000 estimate but there was not a bid in the room , and it was sold afterward for a paltry $25,000 ( £17,850 ) . |
| 14 | The youngster said : ‘ I turned around and it was coming straight for me . |
| 15 | erm and I think that if it is pulled down for this new development , in ten year 's time we will look back and we will say ‘ Why did we do this ? |
| 16 | And the little one will lose heart and its life will drift away if it 's cut off for too long from its own animal world . ’ |
| 17 | Cos it was rejected apparently for |
| 18 | Put it on low and leave it the night and day cos it was left on for a week once was n't it ? |
| 19 | The story of the Patiño family is by no means unique , but it is arresting nonetheless for all the romance and tragedy that has surrounded this clan of immensely rich and socially ambitious art collectors . |
| 20 | Do you know it is , it 's a little tiny but it 's going on for ages and ages . |
| 21 | I know , but it 's standing there for ages in the cold is n't it ? |
| 22 | In short answers unless it is crying out for a diagram do n't bother because you 'll spend five minutes drawing the diagram , labelling it , explaining what D P and D S means and it just wo n't work it definition , application , measurement problems , contention , |
| 23 | Plants have long " known " how to use the energy of sunlight to split water , but they do not evolve hydrogen explicitly , since it is needed only for internal energetic processes within the plant itself as a means for reducing carbon dioxide . |
| 24 | This was the most important feature of the breed 's decline from grace , since it was bred solely for work . |
| 25 | In the afternoon the weather is really hot , the way it always is when you go back to school , after it 's rained non-stop for the summer holidays . |
| 26 | The water leak was discovered in Kozloduy 's sixth reactor after it was shut down for repairs and modifications [ see ED 56 ] . |
| 27 | Andrew Sentance , economics director at the Confederation of British Industry , said the economy was balanced on a knife-edge but it was not possible to say whether it was heading irretrievably for recession . |
| 28 | It 's thought the sword guard will be bought by The museum of Wales when it 's put up for auction by the Receiver of wrecks later this year . |
| 29 | After the logo 's dramatic unveiling on the stage of the New Athenaeum Theatre , there was a ripple of applause — and much muttering about the design , which may lose impact when it is scaled down for reproduction in newspapers and magazines . |
| 30 | This obviously applies when the word " language " is used in its direct sense , but it equally applies when it is used symbolically for perceptions and values . |