Example sentences of "it [be] [adv] [verb] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oil is now the least popular for central heating after the 1970's oil crisis ; it 's not used for room heaters except in the form of paraffin . |
| 2 | ( odd ) It 's a bird , but it 's not adapted for flight . |
| 3 | summer , I suppose it 's not meant for summer cos it 's got long sleeves . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's simply asking for trouble , ’ she said . |
| 5 | ‘ If you ask me , it 's just change for change 's sake . |
| 6 | So , and dad it 's also used for paint , paper , pottery |
| 7 | But jokes about women drivers ( always told by men ) are about hanging a handbag on the pulled-out choke or never being able to use the rear-view mirror because it 's always positioned for make-up repairs . |
| 8 | Speaking personally , for now , it 's always cause for alarm , when they spin round — whatever they look like . |
| 9 | Although it 's specifically marketed for use with antiques , there 's no end to the kind of property it can tag . |
| 10 | I 've do It 's like it 's like practising for football I mean you might be the best footballer in the world and you say you know they say well you 've just won the cup say |
| 11 | It 's not used very often , actually , it 's only used for security purposes really . |
| 12 | It 's still used for target practice — a poignant reminder of the Cold War , the end of which heralded the last post for RAF Hullavington . |
| 13 | er Well , it 's , it 's a standard er model , it 's , it 's actually designed for desert racing , so it 's |
| 14 | It is not going for growth . ’ |
| 15 | It is not going for growth . ’ |
| 16 | It is not ground for objection that the information sought will be inadmissible at the trial if the information sought appears reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence . |
| 17 | It is not marked for number . |
| 18 | ‘ The van I used to use to transport my bikes has come to the end of its day , and Bill Doig has very kindly offered me the use of the station van if it is not required for company duties . ’ |
| 19 | Thus although it is commonly suggested that the notion of certainty is relevant to the analysis of claims to knowledge , but not to the analysis of knowledge itself ( e.g. , in Woozley , 1953 ) , this leaves us with no method of explaining why certainty should be required before one can claim knowledge when it is not required for knowledge itself , i.e. , for the existence of what one is claiming . |
| 20 | It is normally used for writing . |
| 21 | Standard controls are a single wheel on a fixed left-side-only or throw-over yoke pivoting fore-and-aft on a centreline pillar ; but as it is partly intended for training G-DHCB has twin control wheels at either end of a Y-shaped structure . |
| 22 | It is shortly to apply for planning permission to extend the pits . |
| 23 | It is primarily intended for health visitors , plus public health nurses , health promotion workers and other staff . |
| 24 | He is ready , he says , to consider Syria 's ‘ vital interests ’ in Lebanon , and by that he appears to mean that its army could stay in the Beka'a Valley , provided it is clearly intended for defence against Israeli attack and not for interference in Lebanon 's internal affairs . |
| 25 | However it is n't scheduled for production until EOS can develop a colour solution . |
| 26 | It is n't used for power , it is used for purity and clarity , and that 's how you create that sense of space . |
| 27 | It is also asking for air-time on radio and television , and for access to national and provincial newspapers and magazines . |
| 28 | It is also used for model glider towlines for these reasons , and in particular , nylon monofilament has enough elasticity to catapult a model glider to greater height than the line length when launched with a strong tension . |
| 29 | Not only is this format the simplest and earliest means of storing numeric data in the computer , it is also used for store addresses and forms the basis for encoding the individual subportions of more complicated arithmetic data-types , such as the fraction and exponent of the floating-point format described in 2.2 . |
| 30 | It is desperately looking for advice , help or just moral support from museums and institutions in the west . |