Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Its appeal , he said , is the excitement it generates in the search for off the wall ideas … not to mention the opportunities it creates for involvement in radio . |
2 | If the nature of the risk is displayed as in Figure 6.10 , corporate management is explicitly given the data it needs for evaluation . |
3 | If the nature of the risk is displayed as in Figure 6.10 , corporate management is explicitly given the data it needs for evaluation . |
4 | It seems that that recent $1m+ investment in Chorus Systemes SA by Altus Finance , a subsidiary of Credit Lyonnais , one of Europe 's largest banks ( UX No 382 ) , has spurred Unix System Laboratories to increase its $1m investment in the firm just to maintain its share : however , the companies do n't want to reveal how much USL added to the kitty or what percentage it controls for fear of giving away the valuation . |
5 | On the product front — and picking up on some of the work it did for ACE — the company says an Intel Corp P5-specific SCO Unix kernel is a possibility . |
6 | Despite their uniform appearance , each has a unique identity conferred by the receptors it bears for antigens . |
7 | Although the Ehrenreichs define the professional-managerial class in terms of the functions it performs for capitalism , they also advance empirical evidence to show that it is a distinct grouping within the stratification system . |
8 | The diversity of provision is a reflection of the different functions it serves for children and their families ( e.g. full day care for working parents , part-time nursery education , short-term group play experience ) . |
9 | The UN , trawling the net wide , has not yet found the troops it wants for Mozambique , which in contrast to Angola is supposed to be a model operation , or the mechanised battalion it has been told to send to the Kuwait-Iraq border . |
10 | With a hardened aluminium cantilever and parabolic diamond stylus profile it retails for £1,350 . |
11 | This booklet has been produced by women for women to provide accurate and up to date information about AIDS and the issues and problems it raises for women . |
12 | Some of the older cases suggest that there should be no recovery by a person who has suffered prenatal injuries because of the difficulties of proof and of the opening it gives for perjury and speculation . |
13 | What makes the new round of work potentially so profitable is the scope it offers for experiment . |
14 | British Glass Recycling ( BGR ) , which has a 75 per cent share of the reclaimed glass market , is threatening to cut the price it pays for cullet by up to £10 a tonne . |
15 | And Hewlett-Packard has shown itself willing to make regular infilling acquisitions as it has grown — the company was heavily castigated for the price it paid for Apollo Computer Inc , but without Apollo , it would not be in anything like such a strong position today . |
16 | The strategy identifies key issues which GDA and others in the city must address in order to offer this sector the environment it needs for success . |
17 | Thus , at the global scale , the International Council of Scientific Unions ( ICSU ) has endorsed the setting up of the International Geosphere Biosphere Project ( IGBP ) to ‘ describe and understand the interactive physical , chemical and biological processes that regulate the total Earth system , the unique environment it provides for life , the changes that are occurring in that system and the manner by which these changes are influenced by human actions ’ ( Report of ad hoc Planning Group for IGBP 1986 , quoted in IGBP 1988 ) . |
18 | Fremont , California-based Independence Technologies Inc has announced iView Fast Track , its Unix-based software for tracking hardware-software and administration problems : the software supports Open Look and the Open Software Foundation 's Motif graphical user interfaces and runs Oracle , Informix or Sybase relational databases ; available on Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sparcstations it sells for $5,500 . |
19 | ‘ And what good will it do for Hank , if it is true ? ’ |
20 | The content and implications of this document have been very widely analysed and debated as has the Tanzanian reaction to it , but a few short passages need perhaps to be quoted yet again if only to underline the very fundamental challenges it poses for curriculum planners . |
21 | Even so , the significance it has for Hobbes is nothing like that which it had for Bacon . |
22 | Frances Richford reports on the dilemmas it creates for SSDs |
23 | But the big day is today(thurs) , not Saturday , because that 's when the men from Greenwich Council come to see if they can give the £4 million redeveloped ground the safety certificate it needs for Saturday 's sell-out game to proceed . |
24 | So now , Hanson has recouped well over £1billion of the £3.3billion it paid for ConsGold . |
25 | Through Special Branch it arranged for Inspector Lamport , of the Portsmouth CID , to visit the Sallyport Hotel two days later , on 21 April , where , in front of the astonished manager , Edward Richman , Lamport tore out from the hotel register the pages bearing the signatures of Crabb and ‘ Smith ’ , and threatened Richman with prosecution under the Official Secrets Act if he told anybody anything about the affair . |
26 | A big attraction of the West Country for many second home owners is the opportunity it offers for waterside living . |
27 | The launch conference was successful in many ways , one of which was the opportunity it gave for students and staff to display the already high quality of work across many areas of the curriculum . |
28 | They will work with Sun on development of communications projects for nomadic computing — tying in with the work at Sun 's new FirstPerson unit ( CI No 2,119 ) , and is to use Sparc systems for all workstation products it develops for use in Russia . |
29 | Rivonia gave immortality to the men it jailed for life |
30 | The arm was developed at the bio-engineering centre at the Princess Margaret Rose Orthopaedic Centre in Edinburgh , which has a world-wide reputation for the quality of specialist clinical care it provides for people with severe or unusual physical disabilities . |