Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [vb mod] [vb infin] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more torque an engine has , the bigger load it can pull in the same gear or the higher gear it can use for a given load . |
| 2 | A sufficient moral universe it may remain for those who inhabit it , but they are a dwindling band and for large areas of the country Labour 's world is a cultural world apart . |
| 3 | Of course , if a museum wants to purchase a work it can ask for donations from banks , industries and other institutions . |
| 4 | Because of funding cuts in nuclear research this is currently due to close in 1994 ; with the German fuel it could operate for another three years . |
| 5 | The fact is , transition to the simpler rules will involve costs , though at the end of the day it will make for more cost effective regulation than the present encyclopedias . ’ |
| 6 | A role for trade unionism which continued to confine its main purpose to the sale of labour at the best price it could get for it was bound to prompt unions first to seek and then to exploit a monopoly of it ; bound to make incongruent two prime objectives — full employment and a stable currency ; and bound to present Government with reasons of national interest or excuses of ideology for intervening . |
| 7 | Each corporation would tend to attract to itself a ‘ clientele ’ consisting of those preferring its particular payout ratio , but one clientele would be as good as another in terms of the valuation it would imply for firms . |
| 8 | For one reason , space is almost a vacuum , so that molecules erm are few and far between , and one thing about chemistry it is really the science of not particularly molecules but molecules that react with one another , but here once one has got a molecule in space it does n't actually meet another one for a very long time , so even a molecule that is reactive and which may only last for maybe a microsecond in the laboratory , interstellar space it may last for a thousand years . |
| 9 | Give it a flick it 'll go for a long way because there 's no , there 's very little friction on the ice and erm the second one is the , the awkward one . |
| 10 | It was a syndrome I had observed in other service marriages , not least in that of my own parents , and I have sometimes thought what a good subject it might make for a novel or play . |
| 11 | If the seller is allowed to qualify the warranties by a subjective test such as ‘ in the opinion of the seller ’ , the acquirer will not have the protection it would hope for . |
| 12 | For sure Cabinets were made and unmade on the floor of the House , but the Cabinet for its part could unmake the House of Commons because it enjoyed the right to ask for a dissolution and after the election it could look for support from amongst members in a new House of Commons . |
| 13 | Reference has been made already to the debilitating effect of prolonged public criticism upon the morale of teachers and the potential damage it can have for educational standards . |
| 14 | Deborah Sherwin , defending Miller , said she had sold her home to set up the fish stall at Redcar and Ferryhill markets but when her marriage broke up her husband took over running the stall on the understanding it would provide for their daughter . |
| 15 | A year ago , applications software made up less than half Microsoft 's sales ; this year it will account for more than 60% . |
| 16 | If the Alexander Technique was introduced into schools the country could save thousands of millions of pounds each year from the cost of the National Health service , let alone the misery it would save for millions of people . |
| 17 | Variable travel times were calculated , including the time it could take for part-timers to get to their station . |