Example sentences of "what it [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " He will share your bed and possess your body , " Maria Candida had said when asked what it meant for a woman to give herself to her husband . |
| 2 | Remember that what you think a word means is not necessarily what it meant for the writer . |
| 3 | The modern school must , to my mind , stand or full by what it does for the worst-equipped children . |
| 4 | To detect the regularities in nature , propose a generalization , deduce what it implies for the next case and observe whether this prediction succeeds . |
| 5 | Our aim so far has been to show that the " stylistic variant " view of style , which supports the dualist 's conviction that style can be distinguished from message , can lead to a more precise understanding of what it means for a writer to choose this rather than that way of putting things . |
| 6 | The public understands more easily what it means for an old lady to have five pounds snatched from her purse than to grasp the financial significance of 25 million customers paying one penny more for orange juice diluted beyond the level permitted by law . |
| 7 | Intensive indoor rearing of livestock is relatively new and people are only just beginning to realise what it means for the animals . |
| 8 | What it means for the broader economy is that the current housing crisis is more serious than ever , and there does n't seem to be an end in sight . |
| 9 | The important point is what it means for the settlement to the environment of North Yorkshire . |
| 10 | What it means for the homes is that they 're going to have to take a what we 've been doing over the last two or three years is gradually improving the staffing levels in our elderly people 's homes , because the dependency levels in those homes are getting very high . |