Example sentences of "[prep] it for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , government-funded research now runs into several millions of pounds a year , most of it for matters related to social policy . |
| 2 | I 've been tired of it for years … |
| 3 | I do n't suppose anything else out of the ordinary has happened there for about five hundred years , so the local people should be full of it for weeks . ’ |
| 4 | The camera was placed at 1.0m from a masked wall , and subjects were fixed to this wall in the case of cards , immediately in front of it for plants . |
| 5 | I must have walked past it for days without noticing : ‘ For sale . |
| 6 | We had nothing against it for others but , having both had fairly disastrous marriages previously and having lived together in reasonable harmony for so many years , it went against the grain . |
| 7 | However , the Normal College is geographically adjacent to the University College of North Wales , Bangor , which offers similar courses of teacher training and , in some respects , competes with it for students . |
| 8 | I 'd been getting away with it for ages . |
| 9 | And I had Avenger estate , and I done the same with that and I got away with it for ages and I what you want a do , I know what you wan na do he erm , I mean that 's that 's really sort of pushing it over the top but he got a great big sheet of polythene , he went down to ready mix and had a load of ready mix in the back of this Avenger estate , brand new he 'd only just got it ! |
| 10 | Nevertheless I would claim that the religious life as a phenomenon has insights which can throw light on the question , because the nuns have been wrestling with it for centuries . |
| 11 | Now I do n't think that 's right , fair or democratic and if we 've shied away from it for years handling this issue and now we 're in the position where this house has total responsibility for the thirty thousand citizens in total of Gibralt it 's not the electorate , the total population , thirty thousand and we continued to deny them vote yet they are citizens of the European union under our own legislation and accepted as such by the European parliament and it is wholly wrong Mr Deputy Speaker that the boundaries that we 're discussing in this bill were not drawn so that and it could easily have been done , that we could have incorporated the twenty odd thousand European union citizens of Gibraltar who do wish to be part of Spain and wo n't be for fifty years or more until it 's been a democracy that long , but to give them the right to vote . |
| 12 | In its strongest form , at the perception of a new and beautiful poetic or religious idea , mystics and seers will fall into a trance and remain in it for hours or even days . |
| 13 | Rachaela had played in it for hours , she was six , it had been oddly magical . |
| 14 | Warning : You 'll be stuck in it for hours after the game . |
| 15 | It 's gone now , but at the time mentally handicapped patients were locked up in it for hours at a time . |
| 16 | 1a identify the place value of a column or a digit in it for values of units , tens , hundreds and thousands ; 1b represent in numerals a whole number given in words ; 1c represent in words a whole number given in numerals ; 1d order whole numbers ; 1e provide a whole number which is between two given numbers in size ; 1f represent a given whole number on a number line or read one from a number line or scale ; 1g demonstrate understanding of relationships of the form 13 x 8 ( 10 x 8 ) + ( 3 x 8 ) . |
| 17 | The pupil can identify the place value of a column or a digit in it for values of units , tens , hundreds and thousands ( Examples 75,76 and 77 ) . |
| 18 | 2a The pupil can identify the place value of a column or a digit in it for values of tenths , hundredths and thousandths ; 2b the pupil can represent in numerals a decimal number given in words ; 2c the pupil can represent in words a decimal number given in numerals ; 2d the pupil can order decimal numbers ; 2e the pupil can provide a decimal number which is between two given numbers in size ; 2f the pupil can represent a given decimal number on a number line or read one from a number line or scale ; 2g the pupil can understand relationships of the form 1.3 x 8 ( I x 8 ) + ( 0.3 x 8 ) ; 2h the pupil can represent a fraction in tenths or hundredths as a decimal ; 2i the pupil can represent a decimal with not more than two decimal places as a fraction . |
| 19 | The pupil can identify the place value of a column or a digit in it for values of tenths , hundredths and thousandths ( Examples 84,85 and 86 ) . |
| 20 | The symbol of this security was the masía — the solidly built farmhouse that dominated the landscape of rural Catalonia and often bore the name of the family that had lived in it for generations . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's got a lot in it for women . |
| 22 | That , no it 's not Colin he 's been in it for ages now . |
| 23 | Cos we have n't had for any actual air in it for ages . |
| 24 | So what 's in it for Waterstones ? |
| 25 | The town itself is peculiarly built , so that a person may live in it for years , and go in and out daily without coming into contact with a working-people 's quarter or even with workers , that is , so long as he confines himself to his business or pleasure walks . |
| 26 | They had been living in it for years . |
| 27 | Yes , aye there would be , just the same ladies that have s been in it for years . |
| 28 | What is in it for practitioners ? |
| 29 | Firstly the process of moving down towards our S S A needs to be facilitated because my own instinct is that the government , faced with all sorts of financial tribulations , is going to take a harder and harder nosed attitude towards local government expenditure , as it will unfortunately with an awful lot of the rest of what we have come to expect over the decades to be the responsibility of central government , clearly the current expenditure review is going to have some nasty shocks in it for consumers of account services , consumers of other assets of the welfare state but particularly I would suspect , the local government . |
| 30 | And it 's proved itself on many expeditions — you could live in it for weeks . |