Example sentences of "it [vb -s] for a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It stands for a positive policy — Socialism at home and internationally " . |
| 2 | Second , there is the knock-on effect to the advertising market in the UK and Australia , which is looking weaker than it has for a long time . |
| 3 | For example , it has for a long time been generally accepted by students of organisation that any organisation is likely to need a number of rules and procedures to guide the behaviour of organisational members . |
| 4 | It searches for a fallen corolla , |
| 5 | And that is why we are so confident IBM — at least at the high levels where policy is made — has n't a clue about the nature of the large systems customers on which it depends for a considerable portion of its revenue and , we believe , more than half its gross profit . |
| 6 | Eight quid it costs for a new visor . |
| 7 | It calls for a great deal of skill and judgment and is a shot that needs to be practised regularly in order to play it well . |
| 8 | But above all , it calls for a co-ordinated approach from the private , voluntary and public sectors to the development of sport in Scotland and suggests how that might be achieved . |
| 9 | And since extraction for horticulture currently presents the main threat to the bogs , it calls for a major initiative to encourage the use of peat-free growing media and soil conditions . |
| 10 | It calls for a generous spirit , a light hand and a large heart . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I learned from him , more vividly than from anyone else , that the study of the New Testament is an exciting adventure , and that while it calls for a rigorous-critical discipline , it is not made less scientific if the student brings to it his own experience of faith . ’ |
| 12 | But overall , the report says more information 's needed and it calls for a careful record to be kept of all future suicides and attempts . |
| 13 | The existing case law is frequently archaic and uncertain and contradictory ; it calls for a fresh start . |
| 14 | Right , er Right , it 's how long it takes for a whole substance to react , so it ca n't Say you put two |
| 15 | But it takes no long reflexion to see that , in this case , if the interrogative is acceptable , then it asks for a straightforward manner adverbial or its equivalent as an answer , and it is not directly related to the sentences in ( 33 ) . |
| 16 | It hopes for a significant export trade in this latest answer to civil disorder . |
| 17 | Located in Bilston in the Black Country , Perry Poultry buys oven-ready poultry , which it processes for a prestigious range of customers including Marks & Spencer , Sainsbury 's and Kentucky Fried Chicken ( Perry makes Zingers , Kentucky 's new line of spiced burgers ) . |
| 18 | This , the DoI press office ruefully admits , is a better turn out than it normally-gets for a major announcement on government policy by a senior minister . |
| 19 | If competitors and circumstances are regarded as the " enemy " then It makes as much sense for a corporation to have alternative objectives as it does for a military commander . |
| 20 | Should the child lose the reward it earns for a desirable behaviour ? |
| 21 | Finally , Darwin displays the indirect evidence for the theory : the explanations it provides for a wide array of facts in biogeography , geology , embryology and so on . |
| 22 | It provides for a partial abolition of the rule " volenti non fit injuria " , without which ss 2(1) and 2(2) could not properly operate . |
| 23 | It argues for a one-stage system with challenges to decisions being thought of as ‘ appeals ’ rather than ‘ reviews ’ . |
| 24 | The London Industrial Strategy ( Greater London Council , 1985 ) highlights some of these problems , and although it argues for a positive role for local authorities , in the end it concludes that national help and assistance will be necessary in order to have any major impact . |
| 25 | Will the Minister join me in welcoming the ceasefire which is under way in El Salvador and the prospects that it brings for a long-lasting peace ? |
| 26 | At weekends it makes for a good day 's outing to take the family for a picnic , after which they can gather as many strawberries as they want at the various fruit farms dotted around . |
| 27 | It makes for a pleasant evening that reminds us once again of the slimline precision of Coward 's comic dialogue and his habit of rendering heterosexual love in terms of recriminatory bickering . |