Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For one reason , space is almost a vacuum , so that molecules erm are few and far between , and one thing about chemistry it is really the science of not particularly molecules but molecules that react with one another , but here once one has got a molecule in space it does n't actually meet another one for a very long time , so even a molecule that is reactive and which may only last for maybe a microsecond in the laboratory , interstellar space it may last for a thousand years . |
| 2 | Although it may cry for a short time , it should settle down and sleep before long . |
| 3 | It 's a good , well-made , sturdy one ( a Mothercare Taxi ) , so it should last for a second child and it 's easy to fold down with one hand . |
| 4 | Without doubt the two best Cup teams in the country have reached Twickenham this season and it should make for a superb final . |
| 5 | If the non-Tory intelligentsia truly wants to do more than tinker in its own backyard , it must look for a route to power that can connect Cambridge with Basildon . |
| 6 | It must provide for a nominee to act as the IVA 's trustee or supervisor . |
| 7 | Every Buddhist boy became a monk for a period , it might be for a lent , or a year or two , it might continue for a lifetime or be as short as a week . |
| 8 | Few performers would be entirely happy touring the country as , say , Oswald Mosley , although it might make for a more interesting evening dramatically . |
| 9 | It was a syndrome I had observed in other service marriages , not least in that of my own parents , and I have sometimes thought what a good subject it might make for a novel or play . |
| 10 | He had no intention of drinking the stuff , but it might do for a shave . |
| 11 | Give it a flick it 'll go for a long way because there 's no , there 's very little friction on the ice and erm the second one is the , the awkward one . |
| 12 | Does n't matter I mean , it 'll go for a long time you know . |
| 13 | Oh it 'll pay for a bit of the ferry but has , has no one approached the unions ? |
| 14 | ‘ And it 'll last for a while yet . |
| 15 | It 'll work for a lot of them . |
| 16 | The relationship was initiated or terminated with minimal ceremony though it could endure for a lifetime . |
| 17 | It can prohibit or impose conditions upon activities ; it can impose conditions upon or even revoke authorisation and it could petition for a winding-up of a society 's operation . |
| 18 | A speed which , once it had lumbered up to it , it could maintain for a long time . |
| 19 | Lastly the serrated blade of the sickle required no sharpening : it would last for a whole harvest without attention . |
| 20 | It would sit for a limited period , probably less than six months , and would take over responsibility for those areas of state operation essential for impartial elections including the security forces , a limited budgetary role , the state-owned media and the conduct of the elections themselves . |
| 21 | Either because he had the hump or because he thought it would make for a good show he started smashing the footlights one by one . |
| 22 | If the English paintings in the National Gallery could be included ( and I imagine that is not possible ) , it would make for a truly remarkable museum a real tribute to the ‘ Englishness of English art ’ . |
| 23 | The process of report and interrogation took quite a time , and Rostov began to suspect that if he and the others were to be subjected to some form of tribunal before their fate was decided , then at least it would pass for a fair one . |
| 24 | It 's very small , only just room for the bunk , but it would do for a time . |
| 25 | It was off , but it would do for a round of roulette . |
| 26 | It would n't fool them for long but it would do for a moment . |
| 27 | But it would do for a comic sketch — ‘ |
| 28 | ‘ See what it would cost for a couple of places on her ? ’ |
| 29 | It is also cheaper for parents — they pay an average £60 for 42 hours of care a week under the Glaxo scheme , compared with a subsidised £85 the company anticipates it would charge for a workplace nursery . |
| 30 | Cincinnati Bell Inc has had the all clear from Standard & Poor 's Corp , which affirmed Cincinnati Bell Telephone Co 's double-A-minus senior debt rating on its $285m or so of debt following the company 's announcement that it would file for a 9% increase in local services and a three-year alternative regulation plan beginning January 1 1994 . |