Example sentences of "it [vb past] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mick began , then paused where it asked for the name of the vehicle 's owner . |
| 2 | It provided for the EC , the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) and representatives of all parties to the conflict to monitor the ceasefire . |
| 3 | The first agreement of its kind to be concluded by the CIS with a former Warsaw Pact country , it provided for the sale of real estate belonging to the former Soviet army in Czechoslovakia and for the use of the proceeds to make good the environmental damage done on those sites as well as to pay for the housing of returning soldiers in Russia . |
| 4 | In effect it provided for the dismemberment of Abyssinia and the giving to Mussolini of about half of what he had set himself to achieve by conquest . |
| 5 | One result of this has been the pervasive influence of linguistic methodology upon such studies of objects as have developed in recent decades ; and while the rise of semiotics in the 1960s was advantages in that it provided for the extension of linguistic research into other domains , any of which could be treated as a semiotic system ( e.g. Eco 1976 : 9–14 ) , this extension took place at the expense of subordinating the object qualities of things to their word-like properties . |
| 6 | Basically it provided for the care and treatment of the mentally disordered through the NHS under the central direction of the Minister of Health . |
| 7 | During this period it provided for the suspension of government subsidies to industry and industrial promotion benefits ( a form of tax relief to companies in the interior ) , and for a halt to subsidies to provincial administrations . |
| 8 | Both sides seemed satisfied and although it is unlikely that a two-tier Champagne classification would have been workable in the long term , it sufficed for the present although it was still being debated in the Senate when war broke out three years later . |
| 9 | The scheme was expensive , with in effect £8000 of public money being spent on each dwelling , since the local authority contribution to UDG almost exactly cancelled out the price it received for the land . |
| 10 | Croydon Corporation was not satisfied with the compensation which it received for the loss of its tramways and went to arbitration . |
| 11 | It signalled for the visitors to be pulled to their feet . |
| 12 | It rained for the potato harvest . |
| 13 | Yeah It 's funny we 've just cos it paid for the flat . |
| 14 | As a public corporation ( 'epic ’ ) , it acted for the state in contracting work out to arms and electronics manufacturers . |
| 15 | Working with the head of naval aviation , Admiral Shigemi Inoue , Yamamoto submitted a detailed memorandum to the Minister — where it rested for the moment . |
| 16 | But for Britain , WEU was perhaps satisfactory : it allowed for the possibility of British association with the leaders of integration , if necessary , and may have permitted some form of British influence upon the latter . |
| 17 | Since the notion of literariness was not coterminous with the art object , it allowed for the inclusion of non-literary elements in a work without ditching the specificity of literariness . |
| 18 | The rear wall of the churchyard loomed ahead of the figure and it sprang for the top . |
| 19 | A simple , single school-room with an entrance porch on the east side , it catered for the children of Shawell and the surrounding villages until after World War I. It is significant that even such a simple building as this was not immune from the stylistic preferences of contemporary architects and the steeply pitched roof-slopes of the schoolroom are ‘ stratified ’ with bands of alternating plain and fish-scale pattern tiles in true ‘ High Victorian ’ fashion . |
| 20 | The increasingly bitter dispute over the role of the media [ for June Constitutional Court ruling see pp. 38971-72 ] took a new turn on Dec. 31 when the opposition parties in the National Assembly joined forces to deprive the government of the two-thirds majority it needed for the passage of a new media bill . |
| 21 | A top British surgeon has accused the American Government of ’ scaremongering ’ after it called for the halt of silicone breast implants on health grounds . |
| 22 | It called for the formation of a joint parliamentary commission in April , when the two-plus-four talks would also begin . |
| 23 | It called for the signing of a treaty on a " Union of Sovereign States " , adherence to which would be determined by the individual republics . |
| 24 | It called for the repeal of legislation ‘ which leads to the victimisation of the poor ’ . |
| 25 | Second , it called for the development of an " organizational and structural framework " for uniting the Iraqi opposition . |
| 26 | It called for the development of solar rural electrification programmes in the South , particularly Africa , and for the expansion of solar power in the Middle East , as a means of preventing possible conflict over water resources for hydro-electric power between Israel and her Arab neighbours or Turkey and Iraq . |
| 27 | It called for the appointment of a science adviser at cabinet level and early enough in the new president 's term to help him fill other scientific posts , an expanded Office of Science and Technology Policy ( OSTP ) and access to expert outside advice . |
| 28 | It called for the disarmament and return to their bases ( " encampment " ) of all factions , pending a general election within six months , under the supervision of former United States President Jimmy Carter 's International Negotiation Network ( INN ) . |
| 29 | Regarding economic sovereignty , it called for the creation of an independent financial system and demanded the Ukraine 's share of Soviet currency and gold reserves . |
| 30 | It warned , however , that close surveillance of the border would continue , and it called for the creation of a " security zone " 5 km wide inside Iraq . |