Example sentences of "that it [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The particular focus which I find valuable is the concept of the ‘ life course ’ , which is different from the more orthodox conception of the ‘ life cycle ’ and ‘ family life cycle ’ , in that it allows for more variation and does not assume that family relationships go through a series of modifications which are totally predictable in advance . |
| 2 | One of the important characteristics of those moves was the support that it represented for British liberalisation policies . |
| 3 | We had nothing at all to live on ; but one day I received a sum of money that we managed to divide up so that it lasted for many weeks , just so much a day . |
| 4 | The swan became so attached to Sam that it stayed for twelve years . |
| 5 | By far the most popular location in recent years has been the Netherlands , for the very good reason that it has for some time offered by far the best deal . |
| 6 | By 1820 , it was owned and worked by Robert Wight , who continued to manufacture cloth there , the mill becoming known as Wights Mill , a name that it retained for many years . |
| 7 | The only good thing about it is that it lasts for six months , then immunity is acquired . ’ |
| 8 | As for Freud , the clitoris continues to be surrounded by the same problems that it held for nineteenth-century medicine . |
| 9 | The good news is that it works for all ages . |
| 10 | But of course the thing about it is that it works for any shape . |
| 11 | If so , the fact that a dependence thesis is true of theoretical authorities is strong evidence to suppose that it holds for practical authorities as well . |
| 12 | Under Resolution No.6 to be put forward at the AGM the directors propose that the authority should be extended so that it applies for five years from the date of this year 's AGM . |
| 13 | Until the middle of the nineteenth century the whole of this load , equivalent to the weight of many railway trains , had to be carried by hemp ropes which were always shrinking and swelling , rotting and stretching so that it called for great skill to avoid the loss of some or all of the masts and spars . |
| 14 | Fujitsu will hand over the goods from houses in Darlington that it used for Japanese staff while the new factory was being built and equipped . |
| 15 | There was another feature of the legislation , in that it provided for new ways of involving the public in plan preparation . |
| 16 | Choosing the most appropriate things to eat and in the case of man the most effective materials for tools and weapons is adaptive in the sense that it makes for biological survival : organisms which practise the keenest discrimination flourish at the expense of those less discriminating in their choices . |