Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The historical fact is that the settlement of 1688–1701 failed to settle everything ; it failed to provide for all contingencies . |
| 2 | Angling for the deal that it has sought for some time now , UK firm IXI Ltd , Cambridge , is starting to cast groundbait all over the water in an attempt to land its catch . |
| 3 | If ADAS wishes to continue to provide the service that it has done for many years to our industry , and as an ADAS spokesman said ‘ not to price itself out of the market ’ , then it needs to join the real world . |
| 4 | The new non-socialist party looks more agreeable than it has done for 20 years . |
| 5 | A feature of the role has been the opportunity it has provided for closer liaison between the Catholic Education Commission and the Department of Education . |
| 6 | The ministry says it has paid for 6,000 miles since the scheme started in 1986 . |
| 7 | Microsoft Corp last week announced that it will stop selling its Cobol Professional Development System product on June 30 and instead reinforce the strategic alliance it has had for five years with Micro Focus Plc . |
| 8 | Microsoft Corp yesterday also announced that it will stop selling its Cobol Professional Development System product on June 30 and instead reinforce the strategic alliance it has had for five years with Micro Focus Plc . |
| 9 | In order to do so we must go back to the very beginning of society , explain the original trauma and then consider what consequences it has had for modern times ; for , as we shall see in a later chapter , an inability to accept the truth about ourselves and our societies is probably the most dangerous threat to the successful solution of our present cultural crisis and is certainly the chief obstacle to progress in the sciences of man . |
| 10 | It has fought for two years to survive the recession , selling assets to cut spiralling debts . |
| 11 | It has reconstituted for six months to come up with specific proposals and a plan . |
| 12 | The Department of Environment also announced yesterday that it had abandoned the system it has used for most of the past 10 years to channel extra housing cash into the 57 worst affected inner-city areas . |
| 13 | Queen Mary 's Hospital at Sidcup has cancelled all waiting-list surgery for ‘ at least ’ five weeks after more patients than planned were treated in the first five months , producing a £205,000 overspend on top of £200,000 it has to find for under-funded pay awards and other pressures . |
| 14 | This time it has circulated for public comment drafts of five documents . |
| 15 | Virgin Group Plc is planning to enter the mass-market UK personal computer business via a computer supplies company , Virgin Euromagnetics Ltd that it has owned for two years , the Financial Times reports : £12m-a-year Virgin Euromagnetics packages supplies such as floppy disks , which are sold in Virgin stores , and has designed an 80486 machine that is to be built under contract for Virgin in the UK , initially at a rate of around 3,000 a month ; the paper says that the machine may be bundled with a laser printer for about £1,200 , and the plan is to launch in September . |
| 16 | It wants to do for Regional Railways what its slick imagery did to boost Inter City . |
| 17 | Communication Intelligence Corp , Redwood Shores , California has filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission to offer 3m shares , 2.7m of them new , to raise an indicated $10.75m , which the manufacturer of components for pen-based computers says it plans to use for working capital and its proposed joint venture in China . |
| 18 | Yet the Post Office failed to select him , albeit from over 300 candidates , as one of those for the nine sets of special stamps it plans to issue for 1994 . ’ |
| 19 | However , it tends to work for other companies rather than their own , although — not unnaturally — they make use of it . |
| 20 | They have what it takes to exist for millions of years , and that is why they are still here today . |
| 21 | It began to cater for all tastes . |
| 22 | In Sweden secrétaires de commission began to be appointed to some missions in foreign capitals from 1669 onwards , mainly it seems to provide for greater continuity in the event of the death or recall of the head of the mission . |
| 23 | ‘ I doubt whether you could understand how it feels to know for all eternity that the creations of hell are pursuing you , ’ Kopyion said . |
| 24 | It wishes to cater for those in practice at whatever level . |
| 25 | Its justification was primarily military — a guarantee of aid in the face of any future German aggression and , for Britain , the beginnings of an alliance against the Soviet Union — though it did provide for bilateral economic assistance and cooperation , and , indeed , a standing economic committee was established . |
| 26 | It 's preferable to obtain pot-grown plants , making absolutely sure they are well-rooted , and at the same time it pays to inspect for any visible signs of disease or disorders . |
| 27 | The Committee made no reference to complaints from Members , although the IBA survey showed that the percentage of MPs who found the Chamber too hot rose from 9 before the experiment to 36 after it had run for four months . |
| 28 | And when it had trembled for twenty-two |
| 29 | The crusaders had returned to their interstellar castle — which flew onward from nowhere to nowhere just as it had done for many millennia , and must continue to do for many millennia more . |
| 30 | The house looked as it had done for three centuries ; Lord Cumbermound was in no doubt that it would manage another three . |