Example sentences of "[subord] it [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He dropped the letter on to his desk where it fluttered for a moment , an innocent reminder of the arrangement made in that grey stone house in Ghent . |
| 2 | Mick began , then paused where it asked for the name of the vehicle 's owner . |
| 3 | Working with the head of naval aviation , Admiral Shigemi Inoue , Yamamoto submitted a detailed memorandum to the Minister — where it rested for the moment . |
| 4 | The train braked to a shuddering halt at the Paisley signal box where it remained for the next thirty minutes whilst the driver and guard proceeded to examine the underside and topside of the train . |
| 5 | When the partnership was dissolved he moved his office to Great George Street , Westminster , where it remained for the rest of his life . |
| 6 | The London Industrial Strategy ( Greater London Council , 1985 ) highlights some of these problems , and although it argues for a positive role for local authorities , in the end it concludes that national help and assistance will be necessary in order to have any major impact . |
| 7 | Overall , Siemens AG was able to give little cheer to shareholders , and the shares were off 2.30 marks at 663.10 early yesterday after the company warned that it would be counted a success if 1992-93 profits were stable with last year — incoming orders in the first five months of this fiscal fell 2% , although it looks for a 4.7% rise for the full year ; group sales in the first five months rose 3% to the equivalent of about $18,500m . |
| 8 | She watched him walk away along the corridor heading back towards the club , her heart feeling lighter than it had for the past week . |
| 9 | ‘ And what happens if it lasts longer for one of us than it does for the other ? ’ |
| 10 | As an example , property insurance is cheaper than liability insurance , so that it makes more sense , for instance , for a site-owner to insure against the fire risk of a fire caused by an installer , under fire insurance , than it does for the installer to insure against liability for causing the same risk , under a public liability or contractor 's all risks policy . |
| 11 | But wherever she works , a woman-centred psychologist 's sex does not guarantee her feminism , any more than it does for an egalitarian feminist psychologist . |
| 12 | This , the DoI press office ruefully admits , is a better turn out than it normally-gets for a major announcement on government policy by a senior minister . |
| 13 | The basic idea can be captured in minutes and the total concept fully realised in , at most , a couple of hours , which is a lot faster than it takes for the same degree of finish to be achieved in any other medium . |
| 14 | This is only true if the image is projected for less time than it takes for the eye to move . |
| 15 | This is only true if the image is projected for less time than it takes for the eye to move . |
| 16 | Second , there is the knock-on effect to the advertising market in the UK and Australia , which is looking weaker than it has for a long time . |
| 17 | For the top and intermediate Party leadership , Hitler 's image stood therefore in far closer relationship to reality than it did for the broad mass of the population . |
| 18 | He has a dynamic personality and musical discrimination , and without exception the orchestra played much better for him than it did for the ballet conductor , Viktor Fedotov . |
| 19 | It took longer for the territories with loud speakers to be occupied than it did for the silent territories ( Figure 6.2 ) . |
| 20 | So what if it calls for the stout-sticking of some idle spouse ? |
| 21 | If your constipation does n't improve , especially if it happened for no obvious reason after years of no trouble , then see your doctor . |
| 22 | If it runs for the ten years , they 're going to out-perform the banks and building societies , and they 're going to be very happy . |
| 23 | if it holds for a , well it 's jeans , I thought well |
| 24 | Cos it makes for a lot of you know if you do n't have and say well I 'm not going to put in my feet anyway . |
| 25 | Yeah It 's funny we 've just cos it paid for the flat . |
| 26 | This series of squares is disquieting as it heads for the horizon unless it allows for the curvature of the Earth . |
| 27 | The meeting , to be followed by talks between their heads of government tomorrow , could head off a Russian threat to cut off natural gas supplies to Ukraine unless it pays for the gas it received in January . |
| 28 | In Lewis the effect of the decline in the inshore fishing industry was all the more dramatic because it looked for a time as if it might be averted . |
| 29 | He hesitated only briefly before he said , ‘ Because it asked for a reservation I have no wish to make . |
| 30 | Logically , critical reflection is ‘ higher ’ because it calls for a state of mind reflecting on that learning . |