Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They left his body lying where it fell for three days , as a warning to the other prisoners . |
| 2 | The grass is either permanent or it remains for several years as a long ley . |
| 3 | The agreement endorsed the principle of " self-sufficiency " , which stipulated that waste should be treated or disposed of as close as possible to the point of production , although it provided for some flexibility in the case of smaller countries . |
| 4 | In fact one of the great things about this walk is that it keeps for most of the time to the shoulder of the fells so that they fall away steep sided below you giving you clear views out and down . |
| 5 | The model of style proposed here is " pluralist " in that it allows for three distinct levels ( semantic , syntactic , graphological ) at which stylistic choices can be made . |
| 6 | The particular focus which I find valuable is the concept of the ‘ life course ’ , which is different from the more orthodox conception of the ‘ life cycle ’ and ‘ family life cycle ’ , in that it allows for more variation and does not assume that family relationships go through a series of modifications which are totally predictable in advance . |
| 7 | One of the important characteristics of those moves was the support that it represented for British liberalisation policies . |
| 8 | Granted that ‘ Be aware ’ suffices for some choices of ends , it does not necessarily follow that it suffices for all . |
| 9 | David Lloyd , his captain at Lancashire , tells a story that once in a Gillette Cup match against Gloucestershire at Old Trafford , Clive Lloyd edged a ball from Mike Procter so hard that it went for six . |
| 10 | We had nothing at all to live on ; but one day I received a sum of money that we managed to divide up so that it lasted for many weeks , just so much a day . |
| 11 | Another difficulty facing this definition or scope for pragmatics , is that it calls for some explicit characterization of the notion of context . |
| 12 | The swan became so attached to Sam that it stayed for twelve years . |
| 13 | By far the most popular location in recent years has been the Netherlands , for the very good reason that it has for some time offered by far the best deal . |
| 14 | For most of these the use of English presents no problem and the Church does not assume the cultural importance that it has for some of those from ethnic minority cultures who live permanently in Britain . |
| 15 | By 1820 , it was owned and worked by Robert Wight , who continued to manufacture cloth there , the mill becoming known as Wights Mill , a name that it retained for many years . |
| 16 | The only good thing about it is that it lasts for six months , then immunity is acquired . ’ |
| 17 | The ethogenic approach , proposed by Harré and Secord ( 1972 ) , Harré ( 1979 ) and Harré , Clarke and de Cario ( 1985 ) , resembles such universal anthropologies , in that it searches for basic social psychological patterns of action . |
| 18 | Their opportunities , their perception of their opportunities , and their choices among their opportunities must all be determined by the complex whole , as must the fact that a ruling class opts for a particular ideology , and the fact that it opts for any justificatory ideology . |
| 19 | As for Freud , the clitoris continues to be surrounded by the same problems that it held for nineteenth-century medicine . |
| 20 | The good news is that it works for all ages . |
| 21 | But of course the thing about it is that it works for any shape . |
| 22 | If so , the fact that a dependence thesis is true of theoretical authorities is strong evidence to suppose that it holds for practical authorities as well . |
| 23 | The number of matrices B which diagonalise A in this manner is indefinitely large : to prove the theorem we need only show that it holds for any two . |
| 24 | Under Resolution No.6 to be put forward at the AGM the directors propose that the authority should be extended so that it applies for five years from the date of this year 's AGM . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |
| 28 | He 'd always assumed that this was a piece of official terminology until one day he 'd asked what it meant , and found out that it stood for Another Fucking Drunk . |
| 29 | There was another feature of the legislation , in that it provided for new ways of involving the public in plan preparation . |
| 30 | Choosing the most appropriate things to eat and in the case of man the most effective materials for tools and weapons is adaptive in the sense that it makes for biological survival : organisms which practise the keenest discrimination flourish at the expense of those less discriminating in their choices . |