Example sentences of "it [vb past] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Calday Grange Grammar School also faced a second ballot over opting out after it applied for grant-maintained status last year . |
| 2 | That assessment has only to be read to indicart to indicate what it fortended for future success in her chosen career . |
| 3 | It did not say that the BBC wanted an experienced journalist' : it asked for relevant experience . |
| 4 | Still , it made for exciting viewing ; - ) That s what I miss about Sterland … few full backs are better coming forward than he was . |
| 5 | However , middle class observers were sensitive to the possibility that the working class husband might not provide ; after all , the bourgeois family model was favoured because of the work incentive it provided for working class men , which presupposed that such an incentive was necessary . |
| 6 | It provided for total investments of Epounds 14,500 million , of which Epounds 9,600 million would be allocated to the public sector and the balance to the private sector . |
| 7 | There was another feature of the legislation , in that it provided for new ways of involving the public in plan preparation . |
| 8 | Were Lascars and Chinamen to benefit from the improvements in food , accommodation , repatriation etc. which it provided for British seamen ? |
| 9 | Fujitsu will hand over the goods from houses in Darlington that it used for Japanese staff while the new factory was being built and equipped . |
| 10 | It was their deep love for the Llŷn landscape , and a desire to keep it protected for future generations , which prompted the three Keating sisters , Honora , Lorna and Eileen , and their eighty-year-old mother to buy Plas-yn-Rhiw and its fifty-eight acres in 1939 ; later they purchased over 300 acres more with the express purpose of giving the land to the trust . |
| 11 | Until the middle of the nineteenth century the whole of this load , equivalent to the weight of many railway trains , had to be carried by hemp ropes which were always shrinking and swelling , rotting and stretching so that it called for great skill to avoid the loss of some or all of the masts and spars . |
| 12 | It called for financial support and the transfer of environmentally-appropriate technology from richer nations , in return for agreement from rainforest states to safeguard their forests for global benefit . |
| 13 | First , it called for international support for the Iraqi " uprising " and appealed to the Iraqi army to join the ranks of the rebels . |
| 14 | It called for international agreements to support sustainable development , with payments made by companies which profited from indigenous knowledge of plant properties . |
| 15 | Therefore , to a degree , the ‘ social gospel ’ was criticized not because it called for political action but because it called into question Victorian cultural and economic truisms . |
| 16 | It called for strong winds in order to execute the full range of manoeuvres ; but it also had sufficient lifting power for Don to go on television and demonstrate its use as a crop sprayer , photo-ship or bird scarer ! |
| 17 | It called for urgent steps to be taken to ensure impartial policing and demanded that the police enforce legislation to stop the carrying of spears and other " cultural " weapons by Inkatha supporters . |
| 18 | Even if it worked for senior house officer appointments it would not work for registrar appointments . |
| 19 | One of the important characteristics of those moves was the support that it represented for British liberalisation policies . |
| 20 | The plan was to look back at intervals after leaving camp to see how long it took for various features of the Land Rover to disappear , so that I would know how much longer there was to walk when they reappeared in the evening . |
| 21 | The 9.96 seconds it took for 32-year-old Linford to grab gold in Barcelona crowned a glittering career . |
| 22 | Two years after the photograph had been taken Nasser came to power in a nationalist revolution which signalled the end for the European community in Alexandria , as it did for European domination of Egyptian affairs . |
| 23 | He found that the frequency of dependent clauses in the written language of high-ability 13 year olds did not increase thereafter while it did for low-ability children . |
| 24 | Little by little , however , the force of this long glen beneath the austere greyness of the Five Sisters touched Johnson , and he moved his position from that of first considering the political role of such remoteness , and the opportunities it gave for military strategies and subsequent escapes — Glenshiel had been the scene of a battle fifty-four years earlier in which local Highlanders unsuccessfully reinforced a Spanish invasion force — to being lulled by the sight of so many waters , brooks , burns , and silver rivulets , ‘ which commonly ran with a clear shallow stream over a hard pebbly bottom ’ . |
| 25 | Soft toys and medicine , much of it earmarked for specific children , was soiled by smoke , fire and water . |
| 26 | Cos I 've still got a bit of a throat and it said for sore throats too if you want . |
| 27 | Sweden is currently off the Richter price scale for British clients but Norway , euphoric at winning the 1994 Olympics for Lillehammer , is determined to regain the reputation it had for alpine skiing thirty years ago , when the annual quota of British skiers was 15,000 ; today it is 1,500 , but that will change when the tour operators can be induced to include Norwegian destinations in their programmes . |
| 28 | As for Freud , the clitoris continues to be surrounded by the same problems that it held for nineteenth-century medicine . |