Example sentences of "[subord] it [verb] for the [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 | She watched him walk away along the corridor heading back towards the club , her heart feeling lighter than it had for the past week . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It took longer for the territories with loud speakers to be occupied than it did for the silent territories ( Figure 6.2 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | Had they not supported it when it called for the major means of production to be taken over ? |
| 11 | For example , the hearse around the coffin was practically unseen after the third quarter of the fifteenth century , though it survived for the greater obsequies . |
| 12 | The Gould machine was set like clockwork to continue ticking as methodically for the next two years as it had for the last eight . |
| 13 | AS GOOD as it got for the deranged Los Angeles combo . |
| 14 | Mr. Raffan : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will make a statement on the Government 's National Health Service review , " Working for Patients " , as it caters for the distinctive health care needs and circumstances in Wales . |
| 15 | I want to say in conclusion that it has as many consequences for the devout Evangelical as it does for the hardened Catholic . |
| 16 | His remarks , in a Daily Telegraph interview , triggered protests from right-wing Tory MPs and pitched the Cabinet into more controversy as it met for the first time since the summer break . |
| 17 | His remarks , in a Daily Telegraph interview , triggered protests from right-wing Tory MPs and pitched the Cabinet into more controversy as it met for the first time since the summer break . |
| 18 | Though this notion of what I shall be calling ‘ discursive metaphor ’ may seem itself to be metaphoric , it is , as we shall see , a justified extension of the standard definition , as it accounts for the distinct use of figurality in Brooke-Rose 's fiction . |
| 19 | He has also pointed out that the future did not loom so large for them as it did for the Roman historians , who were anxious about the fate of their empire . |
| 20 | As I understand it the Cleveland structure plan proposes the same number of dwellings for erm its next period which happens to be fourteen years , as it did for the last fourteen of the of the previous structure plan , fifteen thousand seven hundred . |
| 21 | The ‘ Snap ’ camera was used with the supplied software , ( not suitable as it stood for the required measuring instrument ) . |
| 22 | Green was all for restoring Lord 's Island which seemed to have had a strange fascination for him , as it has for the present writer who has also , found for herself , the vestiges of the pier , the house , the shooting butts , etc . |
| 23 | The Angolan government , increasingly looking to free market policies to revive the economy , last month joined the International Monetary Fund in Washington , and says , as it has for the past three years , that a devaluation of the Kwanza and the lifting of controls on many goods is imminent . |
| 24 | Now that the work has been completed I hope the church will continue to attract pilgrims to the shrine of St Melangell , as it has for the last eight hundred years . |