Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The London Industrial Strategy ( Greater London Council , 1985 ) highlights some of these problems , and although it argues for a positive role for local authorities , in the end it concludes that national help and assistance will be necessary in order to have any major impact . |
| 3 | Far more significant and revelatory was the arrival of the wireless , in the sense that it meant for the first time the voice of the outside world and all that it encompassed — good and bad — was heard throughout this enclosed community . |
| 4 | Be this as it may , the constitutional authorities who support the introduction of a Bill of Rights to limit Parliament , government , and the state , nevertheless recognise that it calls for a fundamental constitutional change if it is to be more than just a pious declaration of good intent . |
| 5 | Will the Minister join me in welcoming the ceasefire which is under way in El Salvador and the prospects that it brings for a long-lasting peace ? |
| 6 | Second , how can we be sure that it provides for an accurate and reliable estimate of that population ? |
| 7 | Indeed it was historic , in that it provided for the first time for the elimination of an entire class of nuclear arms — land-based missiles of intermediate and shorter range . |
| 8 | She watched him walk away along the corridor heading back towards the club , her heart feeling lighter than it had for the past week . |
| 9 | But wherever she works , a woman-centred psychologist 's sex does not guarantee her feminism , any more than it does for an egalitarian feminist psychologist . |
| 10 | This , the DoI press office ruefully admits , is a better turn out than it normally-gets for a major announcement on government policy by a senior minister . |
| 11 | The basic idea can be captured in minutes and the total concept fully realised in , at most , a couple of hours , which is a lot faster than it takes for the same degree of finish to be achieved in any other medium . |
| 12 | Second , there is the knock-on effect to the advertising market in the UK and Australia , which is looking weaker than it has for a long time . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It took longer for the territories with loud speakers to be occupied than it did for the silent territories ( Figure 6.2 ) . |
| 15 | And it asked for the Scottish Office Guidelines , and those in Lord Justice Butler-Sloss 's Cleveland Report , to be made law . |
| 16 | Tony Dobson put Portsmouth ahead early on and it looked for a long time as though that was going to be the only goal of the game . |
| 17 | But overall , the report says more information 's needed and it calls for a careful record to be kept of all future suicides and attempts . |
| 18 | It draws people who come for a fun day out and it provides for the serious ornithologist . |
| 19 | If your constipation does n't improve , especially if it happened for no obvious reason after years of no trouble , then see your doctor . |
| 20 | If it runs for the ten years , they 're going to out-perform the banks and building societies , and they 're going to be very happy . |
| 21 | But it lasted for a good seven or eight years after the war was finished . |
| 22 | This was popular for warships but it made for a heavy hull . |
| 23 | In 1960 the Rat Pack — Sinatra , Lawford , Martin , Davis and Bishop — came together to make Ocean 's Eleven , a caper that became a classic only because it featured for the first time the nucleus of the clan . |
| 24 | Some from , a lot from the heavens , because it rained for a solid week after the excavator had left and erm from the springs , it 's a natural water-gathering area . |
| 25 | Technically , it was not a presidential system , because it provided for a dual executive , with a president and a prime minister . |
| 26 | Even the Darwinian theory of evolution was impressive , not because the concept of evolution was new — it had been familiar for decades — but because it provided for the first time a satisfactory explanatory model for the origin of species , and did so in terms which were entirely familiar even to non-scientists , since they echoed the most familiar concept of the liberal economy , competition . |
| 27 | ‘ I learned from him , more vividly than from anyone else , that the study of the New Testament is an exciting adventure , and that while it calls for a rigorous-critical discipline , it is not made less scientific if the student brings to it his own experience of faith . ’ |
| 28 | Anyway Rick spent what seemed like an eternity before he got the fish near the net but when it showed for the first time it soon became apparent why it had been so stubborn , the fish was massive ! |
| 29 | When it happened for a third time , it became remarkable enough to distract him from a rapt analysis of Heather 's reasoning . |
| 30 | Had they not supported it when it called for the major means of production to be taken over ? |