Example sentences of "it for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why does n't it have a mark on it for absolute brass monkeys ? |
| 2 | ‘ It has emptied our account , but I got it for twelve hundred and fifty francs . |
| 3 | People who use land and invest their labour in it are benefiting society more than those real owners who neglect it to the extent of ignoring it for twelve years or more . |
| 4 | Well it 's insured , I 've insured it for twelve |
| 5 | Yeah well , it was right it was cheaper to do it for twelve months anyway . |
| 6 | You can claim other defences as well : for example , if you need the blade or point for work , or if it is necessary to carry it for religious reasons or as part of any national costume . |
| 7 | Muslims and Jews want to get rid of it for religious reasons ; Americans want ( wanted ? ) to get rid of it for hygienic reasons and for the hypothetical reduced risk of penile cancer in the circumcised population ; Latins love to play with it , like to keep it , and are taught to mobilise it often ; the British would like to ignore it , not to touch it , and eventually get rid of it when it causes too much trouble . |
| 8 | Back when Abba were in their '50s , around 1975 say , they would have called this sort of record a hustle record and huge black men with names like Fatback would have been playing it for rich white nightclubs . |
| 9 | Since only two of the churches , apart from St. Patrick 's , are big enough to hold 400 people , a proposal was put to the Congregational Church to host the service some time in 1993 and the Church of Scotland offered to consider it for 1994 . |
| 10 | He stood in it for fifteen minutes , until it rang on the dot of nine . |
| 11 | And er he 'd maybe say yes and he 'd get it for fifteen you know . |
| 12 | If this is what they need now , this is what you give them , er , on the understanding that perhaps they only have it for fifteen or ten years , but in fifteen or ten years ' time , they might well be able to afford to extend it and pay more . |
| 13 | Five hundred you can have it for fifteen hundred |
| 14 | Gasp as you find there 's one near you — no other computer event can match it for geographical diversity . |
| 15 | Although major developments in the ecosystem were largely external to biogeography until the 1960s , Stoddart ( 1967b , p. 524 ) argued that the ecosystem concept has four main properties which commend it for geographical investigation . |
| 16 | I want to write it for live musicians of both sexes . |
| 17 | It 's worth trying it for eighteen miles , is n't it ? ’ |
| 18 | George made a long thinking , grumbling noise , then said , mostly to himself : ‘ The paperwork must have been good … if they were living on it for eighteen months … they were n't escaped prisoners of war trying to reach Switzerland on a hand-copied Fremdenpass … |
| 19 | They can ship it , National Power can ship it half way across the world and get it for eighteen pound a ton . |
| 20 | Question , you go to see Mr. and Mrs. Client tonight , and they need , let's say they need a hundred thousand pounds worth of life cover , and to fit their lifestyle , or their children , their family , they need it for eighteen years , they ca n't afford that . |
| 21 | Where in previous years these vessels had been purely large fishing vessels loading salted fish into barrels for immediate export to their own ports , now there came great numbers of large factory ships and modern trawlers which could process fish , package it and freeze it for indefinite periods . |
| 22 | It was decided that until the camp arrived Lady Rathcreedan could use it for grazing cattle . |
| 23 | Most people joined it for humanitarian reasons but it was an outlet for all kinds of disgust . |
| 24 | He was angry with it for existing , and terrified by the reminder that one day he might catch it himself . |
| 25 | Erm it was about a hundred and fifty million , but I have n't got it for nineteen ninety one erm Lorna , sorry you had some more questions parts B , C and D |
| 26 | This is almost all that can be gleaned from broadly contemporary written sources about the Danish monarchy between c.950 and the accession c.987 of Swegen Forkbeard , who conquered England in 1013 , and whose son Cnut ruled it for nineteen years . |
| 27 | People paid 25 roubles to have it for one night . |
| 28 | Could she have missed it by mistaking it for one of the panelled wardrobes ? |
| 29 | It was as if the attacking force had drawn back their battering-ram and steadied it for one final assault . |
| 30 | They were allowed to see it for one hour , before it was taken back , and none of them has been able to get hold of it since . |