Example sentences of "it [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not for the first time she wondered how on earth her father had persuaded the children to call him ‘ Gamps ’ and decided that he had done it for the sole purpose of driving her mad . |
| 2 | Erin , how easy is it for the ordinary person to learn how to compute ? |
| 3 | The temptation to say the coin caused the bar to come out can be explained by seeing it for the ordinary cause that it was , and of what event it was the cause , and of what nearby event it was not the cause . |
| 4 | Maeve would be seeing to the barns , ensuring stock was slaughtered , the meat dried , salted and hung high in the kitchen to smoke , preserving it for the long winter months . |
| 5 | Sticking with it for the long haul , typically 5–7 years . |
| 6 | A company is treated as an associated undertaking when the group holds a substantial interest in it for the long term , and exercises a significant influence over its operating and financial policy decisions . |
| 7 | Oh I wo n't be able to get it for the following day . |
| 8 | Thus , if in a set of decimals to be compared , the longest one really is the smallest , it will attract such pupils when they are asked to pick out the smallest as well as those who select it for the correct reason . |
| 9 | I think one of the problems is , that a lot of shoppers do n't realize that they 're entering into a contract and we do n't realize it for the simple reason that most people have , as soon as you hear the word contract you have a mental image of a legal document that you sign , do n't you ? |
| 10 | I 've pulled him out of it I pulled him out of it for the simple reason , he is the only one which is , I did n't want to segregate him on his own . |
| 11 | ‘ To be honest , I could n't even say when I 'm going to be back but I 've got to realistically think I wo n't make it for the European Cup . ’ |
| 12 | These are substitutes , but you 'll need it for the authentic taste . |
| 13 | ‘ Johnny rang me and he said my photograph was awfully good and could he use it for the front cover of Backward Glances , ’ Mr Winner tells me . |
| 14 | So the bee pollinates the orchid , mistaking it for the nectar-producing bellflower . |
| 15 | ‘ Stotting ’ has a certain ring to it for the waterfall-collection game . |
| 16 | Waggoner eventually concluded that the only way to see a whole tournament is to go to it for the entire week . |
| 17 | I have just done it for the only time in the 23,400,000 minutes of my life so far , and I doubt if I 'll do it again , so call these odds one in 25 million . |
| 18 | The odds cited above would have given little comfort to the man in Kurunagala who , during a rash of cattle thefts , had to pay a ransom for the same animal seven times before finally selling it for the paltry sum of two rupees . |
| 19 | Sonny , of course , never made it for the final show . |
| 20 | Watch it for its parched melancholia : watch it for the fantastic innards-eaten Erich von Stroheim ; watch it and spot which tiny , yet central , image Spielberg nicked from it for ET . |
| 21 | If a secured creditor omits to disclose his security in his proof of debt , he must surrender it for the general benefit of creditors unless the court relieves him on the ground that omission was inadvertent or the result of honest mistake ( r 6.116 ) . |
| 22 | So , as our planet moves on its yearly orbit around the sun , the northern hemisphere is angled towards the sun for part of the year , and the southern hemisphere is tilted towards it for the other part . |
| 23 | For example , an investor could buy a ten-year bond , hold it for one year and receive the coupon , and then sell it for the current price of a nine-year bond with the same coupon . |
| 24 | and very importantly is er , a list of instructions on how to use it , in order to erm , update it for the current month . |
| 25 | In particular , he suggests that the educational system has a marked effect on the production and reproduction of scientific knowledge , and criticizes it for the ahistorical way in which it teaches scientific problems , theories , experiments and proofs . |
| 26 | They won it for the outstanding service that they had given two clients , Comfort Cooling and PSA . |
| 27 | The answer to that question , and the implications of it for the British polity of the 1980s , will form the basis of the final chapter . |
| 28 | It is said that there is a spell within the music , and that they always spin it for the true heir , and that it protects that heir throughout his life . |
| 29 | Presumably , therefore , a House of Commons bent on pressing a Bill to extend the life of Parliament could do so by first abolishing the House of Lords under the Parliament Act procedure and then passing the Bill and presenting it for the Royal Assent . |
| 30 | THE Labour Party 's land policy paper , Planning a New Agenda , has been called partially flawed by Christopher Jonas replying to it for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors . |