Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of these methods of teaching are based on the understanding that , in addition to being given information , young people need the opportunity to discover it for themselves . |
| 2 | Sister Eillen Regan , from the board of education of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of San Francisco , says the board shunned it for two reasons : ‘ It treats nuclear war as survivable and implies nuclear war is a political option ’ . |
| 3 | If you are scoring the tests yourself , rather than getting the computer to do it for you , then always do so at the same time of day — otherwise there would be variability due to time-of-day effects upon your scoring ability . |
| 4 | We have to put a shelf mark on the books so that we can shelve the book , but that tells us quite a lot about the subject , and if you start putting those three things together the librarian , as manager of his library , can start to put all this information together — in fact , the computer digests it for him — to give him an overview of how effective his operation is , when he should be buying extra copies , when perhaps he should be thinking of not buying quite so much , or being a little more selective . |
| 5 | In fact the computer digests it for him to give him and overview of how effective his operation is , when he should be buying extra copies , when perhaps he should be thinking of not buying quite so much , or being a little more selective . |
| 6 | Ideally , you should be able to go to your VDU terminal , pass through the necessary security controls , input information , have the computer check it for you , enquire on particular elements or records of information , produce ad hoc or regular print outs and produce graphical output with simple commands . |
| 7 | The mare took it for affection and pushed her face into Mrs Totteridge 's stomach . |
| 8 | Some of my former colleagues would agree that my recent work is unhistorical but on the contrary condemn it for this — or rather they would condemn it did they not resort to the easier course of dismissing it as the gutterings of a senile mind . |
| 9 | The descant accompanying it for fifty years had been one of complaint . |
| 10 | ‘ It was a pity the wind ruined it for everyone . ’ |
| 11 | The label on the tin recommends it for church furniture and floors ’ . |
| 12 | The spring does it for you . ’ |
| 13 | The council passed it for allocation to youth activities . |
| 14 | ‘ Angela said the council wanted it for housing ? ’ |
| 15 | The question is whether the prohibition on alienating the land followed by the exhortation to keep it for descendants amounts to a trust . |
| 16 | They submitted a paper for publication and the editor sent it for reviews before deciding whether to publish it ask for revisions or reject it . |
| 17 | is called we that 's the question read it for yourself ! |
| 18 | In the early thirteenth century the canons and the laity left it for new Salisbury on the plain , by the river ; and Old Sarum survived only as a castle and a rotten borough . |
| 19 | If in doubt ask the person to clarify it for you . |
| 20 | In fact , a musical dedicated to Elvis is on tour , giving two fans the chance to see it for the FORTIETH time . |
| 21 | The woman solved it for me by stopping and following Marcus out of the room . |
| 22 | The Government rejected it for precisely the reasons that I mentioned . |
| 23 | Instead of proceeding against " The Independent " for breach of confidence , the Government prosecuted it for contempt of court , committed by flouting the spirit of the injunction imposed on " The Guardian " . |
| 24 | Amongst the most important of these carefully plotted works are : de Falla 's The Three-Cornered Hat ( 1919 ) which originally accompanied a mime play and so fascinated Diaghilev that he commissioned the composer to enlarge it for Massine 's ballet ( see page 59 ) ; Vaughan William 's Job , commissioned by Diaghilev , was unused until de Valois created her important ‘ Masque for Dancing ’ ( 1931 ) ( this marked the inaugural performance of what has become The Royal Ballet ) ; Arthur Bliss ' Checkmate ( 1937 ) was choreographed by de Valois after both composer and choreographer had worked on the plot ; Prokofiev 's Romeo and Juliet was composed with the help of a Shakespearean theatre expert and has been used notably by Lavrovsky , Ashton and MacMillan ( see page 26 ) ; and Ashton provided a roughly outlined plot for Hans Werner Henze 's score for Ondine ( 1958 ) . |
| 25 | The peregrine chased it for six miles , and even then the pigeon did not give in . |
| 26 | There 's too much to be done in the garden to leave it for a week or more . |
| 27 | The central character is so consistently developed that the audience take it for granted the house will fall down only a few weeks after he has started [ sic ] to live in it . ’ |
| 28 | Air is introduced into the stomach to distend it for easier visualisation . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In the context of this article , the need for a multi-national to engage in this sort of activity is likely to be limited to those occasions when the customer demands it for his own reasons , or where trading relationships have been established that would be threatened if one customer knew of the other 's existence . |