Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the important characteristics of those moves was the support that it represented for British liberalisation policies . |
| 2 | As for Freud , the clitoris continues to be surrounded by the same problems that it held for nineteenth-century medicine . |
| 3 | Until the middle of the nineteenth century the whole of this load , equivalent to the weight of many railway trains , had to be carried by hemp ropes which were always shrinking and swelling , rotting and stretching so that it called for great skill to avoid the loss of some or all of the masts and spars . |
| 4 | Fujitsu will hand over the goods from houses in Darlington that it used for Japanese staff while the new factory was being built and equipped . |
| 5 | Largely because the Alliance , especially its weightiest backer , Mr Helmut Kohl , clearly drummed home that it aimed for quick German unity , with D-marks in the East ‘ within months ’ . |
| 6 | There was another feature of the legislation , in that it provided for new ways of involving the public in plan preparation . |
| 7 | Cos I 've still got a bit of a throat and it said for sore throats too if you want . |
| 8 | Even if it worked for senior house officer appointments it would not work for registrar appointments . |
| 9 | Therefore , to a degree , the ‘ social gospel ’ was criticized not because it called for political action but because it called into question Victorian cultural and economic truisms . |
| 10 | He found that the frequency of dependent clauses in the written language of high-ability 13 year olds did not increase thereafter while it did for low-ability children . |
| 11 | Calday Grange Grammar School also faced a second ballot over opting out after it applied for grant-maintained status last year . |
| 12 | Two years after the photograph had been taken Nasser came to power in a nationalist revolution which signalled the end for the European community in Alexandria , as it did for European domination of Egyptian affairs . |