Example sentences of "it [vb past] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It failed for the simple reason that no coherent principles or policies came forward to replace the old ones . |
| 2 | And it asked for the Scottish Office Guidelines , and those in Lord Justice Butler-Sloss 's Cleveland Report , to be made law . |
| 3 | This was popular for warships but it made for a heavy hull . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | All in all it made for an uncomfortable meal , despite the chef 's first-class skills , and Sarella at least was pleased when it was all over and Marc , with deliberately precise timing , pushed his chair back to signal that they could now follow him out . |
| 7 | It argued for the urgent creation of a new comprehensive energy strategy . |
| 8 | It provided for a strong president , to be elected by a National Assembly for a five-year term . |
| 9 | Technically , it was not a presidential system , because it provided for a dual executive , with a president and a prime minister . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It provided for an estimated expenditure of L£597,000 million and revenues of L£210,000 million . |
| 12 | It provided for an elected head of state who would appoint a Prime Minister from the party winning a majority in elections to a bicameral parliament comprising a National Assembly and Senate . |
| 13 | It provided for the unimpeded movement of foreign exchange and gold into and out of the country by both Philippine residents and overseas investors , and removed the requirement that foreign exchange earned abroad by Philippine-based commodity and service exporters be sold to Manila-based banks . |
| 14 | The more the UK Vehicle Division restricted output , the more sure it headed for the final chop . ’ |
| 15 | It played for a little while , I did n't play it for long but it did play . |
| 16 | If your constipation does n't improve , especially if it happened for no obvious reason after years of no trouble , then see your doctor . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It paid for the entire holiday . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Voting patterns in these constituencies indicated that the FIS would have little difficulty in securing the additional 28 seats it needed for an absolute majority in the National Assembly . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It was an unhappy morning , and a sulky afternoon , and when towards evening Clarissa had collected enough moral courage to approach the telephone , it rang for an incoming call before she could pick it up . |
| 23 | It called for a revised constitution and the legalization of other political parties . |
| 24 | It called for a national plan , with the full co-operation of Commonwealth governments . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It called for the special representative " to recommend , after discussions with the parties , measures which would assist in bringing an effective end to violence and in creating conditions for negotiations leading towards a peaceful transition " to democracy . |
| 28 | It called for an immediate halt to land confiscations and settlement building in the Occupied Territories , in order to allow for " bilateral negotiations on the withdrawal of Israeli forces , the dissolution of Israeli administration and the transfer of authority to the Palestinian people " . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But even before the last two matches the England management would have been reasonably content with the tour and the evidence it offered for the future development of England rugby . |