Example sentences of "that it [vb past] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the important characteristics of those moves was the support that it represented for British liberalisation policies . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The swan became so attached to Sam that it stayed for twelve years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As for Freud , the clitoris continues to be surrounded by the same problems that it held for nineteenth-century medicine . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There was another feature of the legislation , in that it provided for new ways of involving the public in plan preparation . |