Example sentences of "it [verb] [noun] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the astute leadership of its general secretary , Bruce Kent , it made room for the various local and single-issue groups that were mushrooming around the country . |
| 2 | As such , it has significance for the coastal communities of Wales around which there are concentrations of tanker traffic , and a growing interest in the search for new oil reserves . |
| 3 | It confirmed support for the Federal Treaty [ see p. 38825 ] as " a constituent part of the [ future ] Russian Constitution " and the basis of nationalities policy . |
| 4 | The Lancet , smug from recent public health victories , captured the new mood of medical optimism in 1871 when it claimed success for the recent improvements in working-class habits . |
| 5 | Of course it takes time for the increased number of women on the list to work through into actual appointments , but one of the purposes behind the Prime Minister 's initiative was to see that they did work through into actual appointments . |
| 6 | It placed responsibility for the poor upon each parish , with the requirement , under the Acts of Settlement , that the itinerant poor should be returned , if necessary , to their parishes of origin . |
| 7 | Cray Research Inc , Eagan , Minnesota hopes that flattery will get it everywhere in Japan , and so it chose Tokyo for the worldwide launch of a range of new models in its C90 line to replace the existing Y-MP machines . |
| 8 | Cray Research Inc , Eagan , Minnesota hopes that flattery will get it everywhere in Japan , and so it chose Tokyo for the worldwide launch of a range of new models in its C90 line to replace the existing Y-MP machines . |
| 9 | If it took years for the French to persuade us to buy their cheeses , then selling a microscopic plant grown in a factory must sound like a marketing nightmare . |
| 10 | It took weeks for the other prisoners to get over that ; they would just come up and touch me . |
| 11 | After the rise of the PLO and its acceptance by the Arab states as sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people in 1974 , there was still a natural reluctance , even among some Arab states , to accord it negotiating authority for the Palestinian people . |
| 12 | The company said business in the first quarter was not fully satisfactory but it expects results for the full year 1993 to show an improvement over 1992 . |
| 13 | It gives scope for the hobby-electronics enthusiast to try out his own ideas , and for those who do n't the design as it stands provides a useful power supply unit . |