Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] for it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its size and mass are similar to the Earth , but too few data exist for it to be known whether its interior composition and structure are as similar . |
| 2 | Ulster Unionist MP Roy Beggs said today it was essential that dyslexia was recognised as a problem and proper provision made for it in primary and secondary schools . |
| 3 | The painting , which represented the god of wine , Dionysos , might have had a happier fate had Mummius agreed to the bid of 100 talents made for it after the sack by King Attalus of Pergamum , but Mummius was intent on taking his booty to Rome . |
| 4 | It was too tempting a target , and the Zeppelin aimed for it with the last of its deadly cargo , but this time , they overshot the mark . |
| 5 | In principle the Central Authority could also delegate some of the functions reserved for it in the Electricity Act . |
| 6 | Decentralization fragments the scope of radical change and raises the thresholds required for it to be achieved , a maxim which constitutional and administrative designers take seriously in many liberal democracies . |
| 7 | Their address is in the telephone book , or your can ask for it at your local public library . |
| 8 | If they do not , Britain will be unable to claim money waiting for it in Brussels . |
| 9 | Acknowledgement of the fact of this fundamental need for a ‘ god ’ , and the need to provide for it in any social order , can be the vital factor in finding a way to ease the sufferings of the world . |
| 10 | Inspector Finch looks for it in various places . |
| 11 | We have a right to ask for it to be put back to the state it was in . ’ |
| 12 | The Labour Party , thus , had given notice that it would not be prepared to accept a Leader chosen for it by the Monarch . |
| 13 | The Prospect Inn has two of its decorative lino floors intact , although the owners , Whitbread , destroyed the original pole sign outside when the tenants asked for it to be repaired . |
| 14 | Minneapolis-based Zeos International Ltd has decided to get its local bus upgradable personal computer motherboards made for it by Intel Corp . |
| 15 | Third , because the sort of classroom conditions required for it to be effective are simply not widely enough available in most secondary schools ( and maybe some primary schools ) at the present time . |
| 16 | After M'sieur Fabien died , my aunt arranged for it to be stored , because a house that is left empty can sometimes attract thieves , you understand . |
| 17 | The Project Team requires a comprehensive editorial text processing system which will provide the facilities necessary to meet the objectives set for it by OUP . |
| 18 | My own view is that while that type of system will be important in the future it may not have the central role assumed for it by John Alvey — hence my plea For more resources to be devoted to looking at real user needs and trying out alternatives to the IKBS approach . |
| 19 | The contrast between British Socialism , as then exemplified by trade unionism , and LEGA , could hardly be sharper ; the first , insistent on its traditional and conservative role , the role dispensed for it in the Victorian era by evolving Capitalism — to purvey labour to employing capital ; the second , looking towards a synthesis to accommodate and resolve the opposed interests contained in that dispensation , looking towards ‘ the third way ’ . |
| 20 | In Indonesia , for example the US-owned oil company Caltex had some 10,000 people working for it by the beginning of the 1980s . |
| 21 | President Kenyatta asked for it to be translated into Swahili ; and members of his Cabinet paid tribute to its part in bringing a bloodless transition to self-government there . |
| 22 | Integrated Device Technology Inc says Orion , the low-power Mips Technologies Inc R4000 VRX derivative developed for it by Quantum Effect Design Inc ( UX No 409 ) , will be taped out by the middle of next year , with samples due twelve months from now . |
| 23 | Fearing that the seat might be stolen the councillors arranged for it to be taken away for safe-keeping . |
| 24 | Fearing that the seat might be stolen the councillors arranged for it to be taken away for safe-keeping . |
| 25 | Furious Geet FM bosses have organised huge public meetings and demonstrations calling for it to be allowed to remain on the air . |
| 26 | He produced the receipt , Donleavy carefully itemized the equipment on a small yellow legal pad and Coleman signed for it with his code name , Benjamin B. |
| 27 | In case you do not read the dirty parts of the Bible , then let me remind you that the city of Sodom was earmarked for divine retribution when Abraham pleaded for it to be spared . |
| 28 | Thus , in this diagrammatic representation of photography , fashion is also shown in the curious mirror devised for it by Cindy Sherman , and advertising returns a regard shaped by the " electronic scissors ’ — as he calls his camera — of Richard Prince . |
| 29 | A value added tax ( VAT ) , replacing the general sales tax ( GST ) , was introduced on Sept. 30 , as thousands of protestors called for it to be abandoned in demonstrations throughout the country . |
| 30 | No one had heard of access to ink print information in those days and as I was the only blind student there I did n't feel I had any support to ask for it to be made available . |