Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb mod] [vb infin] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Didi judged whether a thing was good or bad by how much it would sell for . |
| 2 | We can set up situations — as noted by John Webster — in which we try to find out what is important to the animal by looking at what it prefers and trying to assess how much it will work for something ; how important that particular resource is to the animal . |
| 3 | We posted our letters , and immediately started calculating how long it would take for replies to reach us . |
| 4 | She did n't know how long it would take for someone with a gun to get into position to fire at her , so she took another deep breath , and threw herself away from the buoy , cutting under the surface as she headed for the opening . |
| 5 | Others besides the agency girl must have seen them leaving together ; she wondered how long it would take for the news to reach Pete . |
| 6 | Teachers and librarians need to know how long it will take for the teacher or librarian and pupils to learn how to use the program . |
| 7 | The more resources that Japan devoted to its basic comforts , reasoned the Americans , the less it would have for featherbedding its export industries — and thus , just possibly , Japan 's trade surplus with America might fall . |
| 8 | Er , the position of the British government is this , that it regrets er the inconvenience and the expense , er it would like to see a very sensible resolution but it knows that there will only be a resolution as I know the honourable gentleman knows by unanimity and it does not expect to see that unanimity in the future though it will work for it . |
| 9 | Now it can work for you too . |
| 10 | Now it must fend for itself , without parental care . |
| 11 | It was not only food that was running short ; the Collector was shocked to see how little powder and shot remained the mine , the fougasses , and the firing of chain shot to clear the foliage had seriously depleted what he had considered an ample provision of powder ; if used sparingly it might last for two weeks , but the shot was almost exhausted . |
| 12 | Publicising the campaign in Glasgow , Mr Salmond said the campaign was intended ‘ to give people confidence in independence , to show how it would work for them and for Scotland , and to highlight the increasing level of discontent in the Union . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Then maybe it 'll last for ever . ’ |
| 14 | The County Council has 28 days in which to appeal , then it 'll know for sure whether it 's the budget or jobs which will have to be cut . |
| 15 | This no doubt guaranteed their trustworthiness to their new comrades and may well have persuaded them that if communism was for their brothers then it would do for them too . |
| 16 | If the law is to recognise the significance of the individual 's physical integrity , then it must provide for offences of this kind even if some of the conduct falling within the definition of the offence is properly kept out of the courts by prosecutorial discretion . |
| 17 | The process of report and interrogation took quite a time , and Rostov began to suspect that if he and the others were to be subjected to some form of tribunal before their fate was decided , then at least it would pass for a fair one . |
| 18 | Or at least it will go for twenty quid in the end if he does n't buy it . |
| 19 | Having been synthesized it has to be transported to the part of the cell in which it is required ; there it will remain for its lifetime of hours , weeks or months until it is due for renewal , when it is pulled out of place in the cell and broken down by enzymes as quickly as it was previously synthesized , its building blocks ( the amino acids ) being recycled in the synthesis of other proteins . |
| 20 | Theda 's eyes remained closed as the lumbering stagecoach rumbled its way from Newark , where she had caught it outside the Saracen 's Head , to Ashby-de-la-Zouch , where it would remain for the night before proceeding to Stafford . |