Example sentences of "for it [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably you do not care enough for it to create a liking and a need , which we shall never be able to satisfy nevertheless , avoid it unless principle and pleasure and interest all advise it . |
| 2 | Better , far better , for it to remain a dream . |
| 3 | This would enable Hongkong Bank to avoid paying a packet for goodwill and for it to remain a Hongkong bank while Midland remained British . |
| 4 | Not all transmitters excite the post synaptic membrane , some inhibit it so that it is more difficult for it to carry an impulse . |
| 5 | Even the running slow can be a serious problem because instead of waiting for it to finish a task you start pressing more keys — which gives it even more to do ! |
| 6 | button far enough for it to take a picture then . |
| 7 | Verity wiggled her bottom , plonked it back down , calmly braked and shifted up to fifth , dawdling along behind the green Parceline truck while she waited for it to overtake an Esso tanker . |
| 8 | There is no provision for it to order a payment on account of costs . |
| 9 | It is often more fun to taste a wine 's potential than wait years for it to reach a maturity that may not be so splendid after all . |
| 10 | But it was surely natural for it to feel a flutter of impatience with a fading tradition of Edwardian Modernism that had once invited the educated reader to find metaphysical foundations to his faith before he could believe life meant anything or was worth living . |
| 11 | Mrs. Ray Michie : Is the Minister aware that , in its evidence to the Scottish Affairs Select Committee , which studied rural transport in 1980–82 , the STUCC asked the Committee to consider the need for it to have a remit to examine bus services so that there could be an integrated service in Scotland ? |
| 12 | Not every Zionist or Palestinian needs to be a fervent believer in this kind of credo for it to have a force and tenacity which can not be ignored . |
| 13 | We estimate that 150000 men aged 60 to 74 would be required in an evaluative trial for it to have an 80% chance of showing a 20% reduction in mortality over the ensuing 10 years , significant at the 5% level . |
| 14 | It does not seem to be necessary for an ad to be at all well remembered for it to have an effect . |
| 15 | Pinto confirmed that a prototype Alpha box would be around by the end of the year ( UX No 376 ) — other officials said the emergence of shrink-wrapped non-proprietary Unix environments — with the added incentive of Unix System Laboratories Inc 's Destiny and Microsoft Corp NT already scheduled for Alpha — will open up the workstation market sufficiently for it to stake a claim . |
| 16 | Town planning was neither strong nor coherent enough as a discipline and profession for it to stake a claim and take over other intellectual territory ; as a movement it was too inwardly diverse to be sufficiently self-willed to embark on aggrandizement in its remit . |
| 17 | When the inspectorate is reduced to 175 , it will be virtually impossible for it to produce a report with anything like the quality of those produced in the past . |
| 18 | The purpose of this statement is to give sufficient information to the Computer Group for it to provide an outline design for the New OED computer system . |
| 19 | And what better solution can there be for a decayed or threatened landscape park than for it to become a deer park once again ? |
| 20 | For it to become a reality , it must take root in our workplaces , in our schools , in our communities . |
| 21 | The difficulties the administration encountered in enforcing the collection of taxes made it impossible for it to maintain a flow of funds to the king in Flanders , and Edward was now suffering the severest financial embarrassment . |