Example sentences of "for [verb] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can score points for the number of ceramic divisions you can move the butt over ( with extra for actually getting it down the hole and extra for doing it from the far end of the gutter from the hole ) , for the amount of destruction caused — apparently it 's very hard to get the little black cone at the burned end to disintegrate — and , over the course of the evening , the number of fag-ends so dispatched . |
| 2 | Many businessmen fear that , while Peking may stick to its open door and reform policy in name , officials responsible for implementing it in the southern provinces may lose their jobs as hardliners attempt to tighten their political grip . |
| 3 | If it can be shown to be successful at bureau level then there are certainly grounds for extending it throughout the democratic structure of the CAB . |
| 4 | It follows that we see no case for placing it on the semi-statutory footing proposed by the select committee . |
| 5 | Indeed , if it is possible to talk of a Keynesian revolution in economic policy , then there is a strong case for placing it in the early 1950s rather than around 1947 . |