Example sentences of "it [verb] a [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | An ice-cream tub with a lid which has very small holes punched in it make a good container for the culture . |
| 2 | But it is also an inflated price since it represents a healthy premium for control of the last really big established national player in the US cellular market . |
| 3 | It represents a major setback for the Tories and raises the prospect of a hung Parliament with Labour the biggest party . |
| 4 | The transformation of SunSoft 's operating system development effort into a modern design and production process is not typical of the software industry , but it represents a new model for the software business that will come to predominate , he believes . |
| 5 | The Selkirk coach , John Rutherford , anticipates an open contest and noted : ‘ When you see the Watsonian back division it represents a great challenge for our boys . |
| 6 | The particular sequence of moral development revealed by Gilligan 's research is described by her in this way : first , as in Kohlberg 's findings , a stage of focus on the self ; then , a second level of development in which the notion of responsibility is used to balance the claims of self against the claims of other people ; this stage brings a notion of the good as caring for others ; it involves a protective care for the dependent and unequal . |
| 7 | Lady Diana 's engagement to Prince Charles really put Althorp on the map , and it became a full-time job for me . |
| 8 | A period of decline was experienced by Chiswick House through the Crimean War also the Great War of 1914 to 1918 , and after a succession of occupants it became a private asylum for the mentally ill . |
| 9 | I would have turned down 2 million ( $3 million ) but when the bid nudged 3 million ( $4.5 million ) it became a good deal for us . ’ |
| 10 | This had opened in Fulham in 1945 , but soon moved into the buildings formerly occupied by St John 's Wood Art Schools where it became a vital centre for those interested in French art . |
| 11 | It offers a useful analysis for those who would like to view everything with the ‘ padding ’ removed , and I concede that could be many readers . |
| 12 | It offers a new perspective for regulation studies by examining the activities of those subject to the law as well as those of law making and enforcing bodies . |
| 13 | With four long runways catering for any possible wind direction and no conflicting built-up areas , it offers a superb opportunity for re-activation as a flying club . |
| 14 | Suppose it offers a large reward for someone 's arrest . |
| 15 | The Association proved to be more resilient than the defunct N.D.D.S. although it led a precarious existence for a number of years before becoming established . |
| 16 | If that is so , it constitutes a general reason for the ordinary and perhaps irresistible belief that reality is in whole or in part a matter of causal and other nomic connections . |
| 17 | It produces a six-monthly valuation for both types of management and has no annual charge . |
| 18 | ‘ It made a real holiday for Francis . |
| 19 | I zipped back along the M20 , letting Armstrong have his head as I thought it made a nice change for him not to plod through heavy traffic at ten miles an hour . |
| 20 | It made a perfect setting for Murder in the Dark . |
| 21 | I guess it made a stimulating change for him not to be surrounded by fawners and flatterers the whole time . |
| 22 | It made a good reason for those excluded to dislike Miss Morgan , but it had been true any time these past two years . |
| 23 | It provided a genuine incentive for the worker to intensify his labour and thus raise his productivity , a guarantee against slacking , an automatic device for reducing the wage-bill in times of depression , as well as a convenient method — by the cutting of piece-rates — to reduce labour costs and to prevent wages from rising higher than was thought necessary or proper . |
| 24 | The transitive verb meant ‘ to make suitable ’ and when translated into human terms this indicated a solution to a number of perceived difficulties in the juvenile labour-market : at the very least it offered a safeguard against redundancy through technological change ; it provided a necessary companion for ‘ intelligence ’ , one of the qualities demanded by ‘ modern ’ industrial conditions ; and it seemed to imply a degree of social contentment , integration , and stability , which were important , if only in so far as they could serve as protection against the ravages of unemployment and , in extreme cases , unemployability . |
| 25 | In a way , he was able to vent his frustrations in his boxing and his sport became like a cathartic experience ; it provided a perfect outlet for his aggression . |
| 26 | Although requiring constant attention to water management , it provided a geographical base for the infant kingdom superior to that offered by the bleak , intermontane valleys inland , across the high limestone ranges of the Velebit mountains . |
| 27 | Lasswells model was speedily recognised to be flawed — it assumed that the communicator had the intention of influencing the receiver and made no allowance for a feedback element in the communication process — but it provided a new method for the study of communication and was the stimulus for further analysis . |
| 28 | This discovery gave fresh impetus to research aimed at developing new drugs which , like aspirin , would relieve pain and control inflammation , and also it provided a new basis for testing candidate compounds . |
| 29 | But at least it provided a possible explanation for the delay in charging Sykes . |
| 30 | Perhaps the most important document on higher education in the postwar period , it provided a detailed blueprint for the development of higher education into the early 1980s . |