Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I have conquered this disease before and been free of it for two years . |
| 2 | I 'm far too fond of it for that . |
| 3 | There 's nothing wrong with it for God 's sake . |
| 4 | There is a real danger in only doing the classical things — you 're OK with it for a time , but then you 're left high and dry when fashion moves on . ’ |
| 5 | Essentially I use paint as a vehicle for my ideas and I 'm not interested in it for its own sake . |
| 6 | People were interested in it for about five minutes . |
| 7 | It 's a bunch of people , Universities , Publishers , erm some funding from Central Government , some from er research councils of various kinds are trying to make a sort of record of current usage of the English language and I think Longmans are intr interested in it for example f from the point of view of dictionaries and stuff like that . |
| 8 | The horse 's sense of smell is acute , and it is dependent upon it for adequate communication with other horses . |
| 9 | MGM is already in default on $600m of loans from Credit Lyonnais and is totally dependent on it for capital to finance its day-to-day operations . |
| 10 | ( 1 ) Official figures indicate that one in five of southern Italians and a quarter of Greeks and Portuguese work in agriculture , although the numbers significantly dependent on it for their livelihood must be considerably higher . |
| 11 | Yet , while such cuts are seen as preferable to the personal hardships of redundancy , less obvious cuts in the information system would also have personal repercussions — advice workers are entirely dependent on it for serving clients and would be unable to function as efficiently without it . |
| 12 | Farmers become dependent on it for inputs and new techniques of cultivation and husbandry . |
| 13 | Hence the growth of state power meant the enslavement of individuals who became totally dependent on it for everything and who , as individuals , no longer possessed the personal responsibility for any but the most trivial and harmless of their actions : |
| 14 | She informed me that a double room at the front was available , though I was welcome to it for the price of a single . |
| 15 | ‘ We 've been hard at it for several weeks now , and have no intention of giving up now , ’ said a spokesman , who also rebutted claims by Irish politicians that Scottish Enterprise has used a dirty tricks campaign to ensure Digital remains in Scotland . |
| 16 | ‘ The press have been decent about it for years ; even the Opposition has n't suggested that his attitudes affected my credibility or my wife 's . |
| 17 | I could see he was going to be unhappy about it for a long time , and that there was nothing I could do about it . |
| 18 | I 've been tired of it for years … |
| 19 | The staged process allows the majority to watch the change without having to be involved in it for some time . |
| 20 | No in in your memory , of course , you 've been involved in it for a long time , have n't you ? |
| 21 | It would be a mistake to assume that all participants in the revolt were involved in it for the same reasons . |
| 22 | Mr McEd was acting pretty cagey about it for one thing and , when pressed , would only come up with the reassuring phrases : ‘ Every cloud has a silver lining Ed … ’ or ‘ Do n't worry son , you father 's not such an old fool as he looks … |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ It is not as if we will be stuck with lorry traffic for the next three years we will be stuck with it for ever more . |
| 25 | He was angry with it for existing , and terrified by the reminder that one day he might catch it himself . |
| 26 | Warning : You 'll be stuck in it for hours after the game . |
| 27 | I think it was a very good school for its time , and I am deeply indebted to it for all I learned , but it was , I consider now , very strict . |
| 28 | We 've been used to it for centuries . |
| 29 | Although the local authority was sympathetic to her problem , the sum of money available to it for discretionary grants had been severely cut in recent years , so it could not see its way to helping her further . |
| 30 | As Sir Alan Richmond recalls it : ‘ we were very hot on sandwich courses , almost dogmatic about it for a time ’ . |