Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] it for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " There 's a regulation about using it for private matters . " |
| 2 | And even when it succeeds , there is still a chance that after pursuing it for some way another gazelle passing in front will impede it and its first , tiring target will be able to escape . |
| 3 | This method is the first of its kind , and the ministry is considering developing it for commercial application . |
| 4 | People who use land and invest their labour in it are benefiting society more than those real owners who neglect it to the extent of ignoring it for twelve years or more . |
| 5 | The universities are also concerned that in three years they may be obliged to give any available permanent position to a WIPer instead of advertising it for open competition , thereby reducing their ability to attract the best talent . |
| 6 | We should closely look at why this flopped before suggesting it for next year as another failure would be demoralising . |
| 7 | Security was tight at yesterday 's ceremony , with press photographs banned and a single TV cameraman shepherded around by two naval security officers , who had to view his film before releasing it for public consumption . |
| 8 | Their two-year project initially involves the implementation of software on a massively parallel Single Instruction , Multiple Data system , with a view to converting it for Multiple Instruction , Multiple Data systems at a later date . |
| 9 | It 's worth trying it for eighteen miles , is n't it ? ’ |
| 10 | Her position is that the person who calls on Osiris or Krishna or Buddha with a pure heart receives the Holy Spirit within his own tradition and not by abandoning it for another . |
| 11 | Could she have missed it by mistaking it for one of the panelled wardrobes ? |