Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But it lasted for a good seven or eight years after the war was finished . |
| 9 | This was popular for warships but it made for a heavy hull . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Technically , it was not a presidential system , because it provided for a dual executive , with a president and a prime minister . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | When it happened for a third time , it became remarkable enough to distract him from a rapt analysis of Heather 's reasoning . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |