Example sentences of "for it [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Some learning theories ( differential association was an example ) moved away from the idea of criminals being identifiably different kinds of people : their criminal behaviour was seen as being acquired in much the same way as any other behaviour was acquired ; it did not require any special , predisposing characteristics for it to happen to particular people . |
2 | The nest was built whilst the truck was in use , so the bird must have been patiently waiting for it to return after each journey so that it could carry on with nest building . |
3 | As there was a tendency for it to rain outside this gift idea was doubly welcome ! |
4 | It is widely known that the new repository will run on AIX and OS/2 , but it may surprise many that the thing is also up under OS/400 as well as on Ultrix , HP-UX and Solaris and that IBM has funded development work internally for it to appear on these non-IBM versions . |
5 | It is difficult for it to distinguish between one sort of pain and another , when trying to work out what is going wrong . |