Example sentences of "[to-vb] it for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to write it for live musicians of both sexes . |
| 2 | He must need to know it for other reasons . |
| 3 | It was no longer possible for casual thieves to take an animal for their own use , or to sell it for agricultural purposes in a village five or ten kilometres distant . |
| 4 | Yeah well , it was right it was cheaper to do it for twelve months anyway . |
| 5 | It takes a special person to handle complaints in any case but to do it for 22 years deserves a special mention , always maintaining a diplomatic and friendly attitude to each individual case . |
| 6 | Christmas trees , and I have two small children that to try to sustain Christmas for three or four days is very difficult , to do it for three months is impossible ! |
| 7 | There 's not much point in paying out over £100 if you 're only going to use it for two weeks a year on holiday . |
| 8 | It is a quite deliberate attempt to depaganise the site by someone who wished to use it for other functions . |
| 9 | Remortgaging unlocks this capital , allowing you to use it for other purposes . |
| 10 | Furthermore they know that they can trust him because he will not filch money from the common agricultural policy , as Labour would do , to use it for other purposes . |
| 11 | There are some complications with this treatment , so I feel it is important to use it for specific indications . |
| 12 | He says the most obvious way is to use it for fireproof doors — for ceilings , lining internal paritions , all of which require to prevent fire going from one room to another for a given period of time . |
| 13 | I was supposed to use it for 20 minutes on each side in between Holly 's feeds , which were every two or three hours anyway . |
| 14 | TEC plans to use Employment Action as a pre-adult training phase , and Councillor , it intends to use it for those trainees who need extra help and resource , those that you referred to , those requiring language training , those requiring literacy and numeracy training , Councillor the very group that you referred to . |
| 15 | The US KRCA-TV Channel 62 is to use it to enhance its programme distribution , video post-production and satellite links , including connections to local sport and entertainment venues and the San Francisco Satellite Centre , a divisions of Watson Communication Systems Inc is to use it for local connections to its satellite teleports for US and overseas transmissions . |
| 16 | But you have to leave it for like months . |
| 17 | Following the demise of current cost accounting in the private sector and the apparent determination of the Treasury to retain it for nationalized industries , the fact that Byatt strongly endorsed its retention in the public sector is important , particularly from the policy-making perspective . |
| 18 | Welcome back : Our countryside is disappearing at an alarming rate and urgent action is needed to protect it for future generations . |
| 19 | To take your pulse all you need to do is to count it for 10 seconds and then multiply by 6 . |
| 20 | Would n't recommend masses into it , but because it 's no income potential , and it 's not that flexible , you 've got to keep it for five years to make it really work . |
| 21 | Bartering enables them to swap it for other things they need without paying . |
| 22 | If the odds were not grossly unfavourable , it should be possible to hold it for several hours . |
| 23 | I studied for the UCLI in Home Machine Knitting and , on passing both parts of the exam , went on to teach it for three years . |
| 24 | At the age of 37 — old by Australian standards — Border accepts that he is nearing the end of his career but he is desparate to prolong it for two reasons . |
| 25 | You can claim other defences as well : for example , if you need the blade or point for work , or if it is necessary to carry it for religious reasons or as part of any national costume . |
| 26 | It can be shown to have uses and it may well be advantageous for working-class children to learn it for certain purposes . |
| 27 | Our commitment to improving the environment and helping to maintain it for future generations can be summarised by these ‘ Green Rules ’ |
| 28 | The sellers gave the buyers a delivery note to enable them to collect the spirit from X. However , the buyers chose to keep it at X 's and did not come to remove it for some months by which time it had deteriorated . |
| 29 | The second kind of implicatures come about by overtly and blatantly not following some maxim , in order to exploit it for communicative purposes . |
| 30 | Since no more is claimed for the incapacitation effect on conventional criminals , it appears reasonable to recommend it for offending corporations . |