Example sentences of "it [verb] [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The EFA should therefore be a prime target for spending cuts , but at the same time , does n't it make sense for the Government to ‘ bite the bullet ’ on another contentious issue , viz. the future of the Rosyth dockyard ? |
| 2 | As a major ‘ consumer ’ of overhauled piston engines for its own fleet , it made sense for the Atlantic Group to extend their activities to engine overhaul . |
| 3 | Under the astute leadership of its general secretary , Bruce Kent , it made room for the various local and single-issue groups that were mushrooming around the country . |
| 4 | As such , it has significance for the coastal communities of Wales around which there are concentrations of tanker traffic , and a growing interest in the search for new oil reserves . |
| 5 | The central characteristic of social action is that it has meaning for the people who are involved in it . |
| 6 | But the most obvious fact about the social world is that what happens in it has meaning for the inhabitants . |
| 7 | It is connected to the record machine but it can be used to display the pictures from both machines in turn : when the record-machine is in either record or stop mode , playback from the source-machine is displayed ; when the record-machine is in playback mode , however , it has priority for the screen and its pictures are displayed . |
| 8 | There were some suggestions that a lower rate of population increase , from the decline in the UK birth rate after 1964 , was a cause of economic decline , as it reduced demand for the purchase of consumer durables . |
| 9 | It blames the poor , it blames the unemployed , it blames industry and it blames commerce for the mess that we 're in and never says anything about itself . |
| 10 | The hirer sued the owner of the excavator as vicariously liable for the driver 's negligence , and the owner set up clause 8 of the contract as a defence , on the basis that it transferred liability for the driver 's actions to the hirer . |
| 11 | The church has a mission ; let it provide money for the mission . |
| 12 | It confirmed support for the Federal Treaty [ see p. 38825 ] as " a constituent part of the [ future ] Russian Constitution " and the basis of nationalities policy . |
| 13 | The movement was particularly strong in the north-eastern town of Suceava where it claimed credit for the closure in February of the local cellulose fabric plant , whose carbon disulphide emissions had been blamed for causing nervous disorders . |
| 14 | The Lancet , smug from recent public health victories , captured the new mood of medical optimism in 1871 when it claimed success for the recent improvements in working-class habits . |
| 15 | The TCP/IP product is designed to integrate Windows for Workgroups with Unix-based local and wide area networks , enabling users to standardise on TCP/IP as their only protocol for workgroup computing and wide-area networking — it includes support for the Windows Sockets API . |
| 16 | In this respect it showed concern for the welfare of all men , and consequently it can be said that satyāgraha whenever it is implemented involves sarvodaya . |
| 17 | It expressed regret for the violence , presumably approved by the leadership of Mr Milos Jakes , with which riot police suppressed the student demonstrations on November 17 . |
| 18 | It takes time for the validity or fruitfulness of any academic development to become clear , and too rapid a response to intellectual fashions could leave institutions with an embarrassing residue of dubious courses , which once installed are difficult to dislodge . |
| 19 | Of course it takes time for the increased number of women on the list to work through into actual appointments , but one of the purposes behind the Prime Minister 's initiative was to see that they did work through into actual appointments . |
| 20 | It placed responsibility for the poor upon each parish , with the requirement , under the Acts of Settlement , that the itinerant poor should be returned , if necessary , to their parishes of origin . |
| 21 | To the extent the seller uses it to manufacture stock for the buyer ahead of any orders he does so at his own risk . |
| 22 | Those few cases which are prosecuted fail to arouse media-indignation , except when it expresses disapproval for the way executives are very occasionally over-sanctioned ! |
| 23 | After the service it took time for the galleries to empty . |
| 24 | It took time for the first cracks to appear . |
| 25 | The reason was no doubt that it took time for the Consumer Protection Advisory Committee to report . |
| 26 | It took time for the Americans to commit themselves to a battle for the stomachs , hearts and minds of the people living in the Western zones of Germany . |
| 27 | Compression Laboratories Inc , San Jose , says Bell Atlantic Corp has chosen it to supply technology for the phone company 's video-on-demand trial for up to 400 residential homes : Compression Labs will provide digital video encoders and decoders which convert standard analogue video signals to a compressed digital video format ; terms of the pact were not disclosed . |
| 28 | After the rise of the PLO and its acceptance by the Arab states as sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people in 1974 , there was still a natural reluctance , even among some Arab states , to accord it negotiating authority for the Palestinian people . |
| 29 | A Primus is a little camping-stove that you fill with paraffin and you light it at the top and then you pump it to get pressure for the flame . |
| 30 | It means money for the clubs and we have a tremendously committed and talented unit who genuinely care about the game . ’ |