Example sentences of "it [vb past] for a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it made for a safer relationship if , instead of arguing to a standstill , the party who felt herself misunderstood took her grievance elsewhere and satiated it in transgression . |
| 2 | This was popular for warships but it made for a heavy hull . |
| 3 | It made for a magnificent setting that culminated in that miracle of Verdi 's old age , the choral fugue that ends the opera , here sung with brilliant clarity and precision . |
| 4 | I think in any marriage or in any family the father and the mother both play different parts , and in my own life I can remember things my mother did and things my father did and together it made for a happy home . |
| 5 | It provided for a strong president , to be elected by a National Assembly for a five-year term . |
| 6 | Technically , it was not a presidential system , because it provided for a dual executive , with a president and a prime minister . |
| 7 | Published in August 1990 [ see p. 37807 ] and adopted by a constituent assembly on Dec. 15 , it provided for a multiparty system and direct elections for the presidency in 1991 . |
| 8 | Michael Codron had reason to be grateful that it was , especially when in January 1958 it transferred for a third time — or even a fifth , if the pre-West End runs at the Theatre Royal Brighton , and the original Cambridge version , were taken into account — to the Garrick Theatre . |
| 9 | It played for a little while , I did n't play it for long but it did play . |
| 10 | When it happened for a third time , it became remarkable enough to distract him from a rapt analysis of Heather 's reasoning . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In so acting it acted for a dependent reason , for the assumption is that individuals have reason to wish for a convention and hence reason to take action to help form one . |
| 13 | It rang for a long time , and he thought he was going to be out of luck , but eventually the receiver was picked up the other end . |
| 14 | It called for a revised constitution and the legalization of other political parties . |
| 15 | It called for a national plan , with the full co-operation of Commonwealth governments . |
| 16 | It called for a further postponement of the legislative elections which had already been deferred to begin on June 21 . |
| 17 | In April it called for a three-tier market , including an international equity market made up of the top 350 companies , a national market for most of the remaining companies listed on the Official List and the USM , and an enterprise market with minimum requirements for those companies not on the Official List , the intention being that those companies in the enterprise market should comprise higher risk operations . |
| 18 | If there had been no reason for the attack , it called for a severe sentence ; in one sense , revenge attacks , which themselves strike a blow at public justice , could be said to aggravate the gravity of the offence . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Even as he asked the question , Seb realised that it no longer hurt in the way it had for a long time . |
| 21 | Home po 2 monitoring was undertaken in 134 patients ; in the 120 patients who have discontinued it lasted for a median duration of 5.5 months ( range 0.3–17.5 ) . |