Example sentences of "it [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Please help us preserve it for the future generations . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Erin , how easy is it for the ordinary person to learn how to compute ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This is quite a steady climb but well worth it for the superb views . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Sticking with it for the long haul , typically 5–7 years . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Oh I wo n't be able to get it for the following day . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In this respect , the French government is right to have made the Minister of Culture also Minister of Education ( although whether they have done it for the right reasons , and with the right man is another matter ) . |
| 12 | If they 're doing it for the right reasons , like the lady over there , a loving couple with a child . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 16 | These are substitutes , but you 'll need it for the authentic taste . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | So the bee pollinates the orchid , mistaking it for the nectar-producing bellflower . |
| 19 | ‘ Stotting ’ has a certain ring to it for the waterfall-collection game . |
| 20 | Waggoner eventually concluded that the only way to see a whole tournament is to go to it for the entire week . |
| 21 | The Federal Assembly on May 2 voted in favour of abolishing the death penalty and replacing it for the relevant offences with life imprisonment . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Sonny , of course , never made it for the final show . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | His primary task in the short term would be to mobilize it for the regional elections in March . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ … I 'll do it for the Young Farmers sometime . ’ |
| 29 | One man who took early retirement at 61 thought , at the time , that the advantage of early retirement was ‘ The fact that there are so many young people out of work and I thought I 'd done a lifetime 's work and might as well leave it for the young ones . ’ |
| 30 | He wrote it for the young men who were dying in the war , but the words may offer a little comfort . |