Example sentences of "it [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It failed for the simple reason that no coherent principles or policies came forward to replace the old ones . |
| 2 | As far as I can see , there is not likely to be anywhere for it to go for the next five or 10 years , except east on the A47 or south on the A6 . |
| 3 | AS GOOD as it got for the deranged Los Angeles combo . |
| 4 | The coroner heard it revealed for the first time — none of the family knew it — that Charlie had had a stroke a few months before , which explained the strange behaviour . |
| 5 | And it asked for the Scottish Office Guidelines , and those in Lord Justice Butler-Sloss 's Cleveland Report , to be made law . |
| 6 | For its part , Scottish Nuclear has also embarked on a programme to reduce the cost of electricity it produces for the Scottish power companies from 3.2p per unit last year to a target level of 2.5p to ensure the operation remains financially strong and profitable for whatever the future might hold . |
| 7 | The Centre is required to become self-supporting so that it is necessary to establish links with government and the business and commercial worlds and to ensure that the programs it produces for the academic community are also attractive to the commercial market-place . |
| 8 | It makes standard pear-shaped hot-air balloons for enthusiasts , and specially shaped ones for advertising or big egos — like the hot-air balloon it made for the late Malcolm Forbes in the shape of the American publisher 's French chateau . |
| 9 | It argued for the urgent creation of a new comprehensive energy strategy . |
| 10 | It met for the first time on 25 February 1986 and includes representatives from the Departments of Transport , Environment , Employment , and Trade and Industry ; Kent County Council ; the district councils of ; elected members of Kent local authorities and Parliamentary constituencies ; Eurotunnel ; Transmanche Link ; and British Rail . |
| 11 | Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir , in January [ see p. 38710 ] was formed on Feb. 13 under the chairmanship of Col. Mohammed al-Amin Khalifah ; it met for the first time on Feb. 24 in the building which formerly housed the National Assembly — the elected parliament overthrown by Bashir in June 1989 [ see p. 36728 ] . |
| 12 | His remarks , in a Daily Telegraph interview , triggered protests from right-wing Tory MPs and pitched the Cabinet into more controversy as it met for the first time since the summer break . |
| 13 | His remarks , in a Daily Telegraph interview , triggered protests from right-wing Tory MPs and pitched the Cabinet into more controversy as it met for the first time since the summer break . |
| 14 | The route became circular in 1906 , going to Bolton Abbey and back , and in 1915 it changed for the last time . |
| 15 | It specifies for the managing adults when to give a lot of positive attention , and precisely the behaviour they are aiming to reinforce . |
| 16 | It provided for the unimpeded movement of foreign exchange and gold into and out of the country by both Philippine residents and overseas investors , and removed the requirement that foreign exchange earned abroad by Philippine-based commodity and service exporters be sold to Manila-based banks . |
| 17 | Indeed it was historic , in that it provided for the first time for the elimination of an entire class of nuclear arms — land-based missiles of intermediate and shorter range . |
| 18 | Even the Darwinian theory of evolution was impressive , not because the concept of evolution was new — it had been familiar for decades — but because it provided for the first time a satisfactory explanatory model for the origin of species , and did so in terms which were entirely familiar even to non-scientists , since they echoed the most familiar concept of the liberal economy , competition . |
| 19 | The more the UK Vehicle Division restricted output , the more sure it headed for the final chop . ’ |
| 20 | From there it looks for the infra-red ‘ signature ’ of a rocket 's exhaust . |
| 21 | It looks for the Highest Common Factor ( HCF ) and seeks to promote that . |
| 22 | When the computer is trying to save a new file to a disc , it looks for the first available fragment of space , writes as much of the new file as will fit , then looks for another available fragment of space , writes a bit more , and so on until all the file is written somewhere on the disc . |
| 23 | It looks for the new round of retrenchments to have a positive effect on 1993 profits , but ca n't forecast them . |
| 24 | ‘ We try to make it lighthearted for the other lads because there 's a lot of pressure . |
| 25 | Instead of resting on its fundraising laurels , it has for the second year turned to race organising as a means of generating essential revenue . |
| 26 | Green was all for restoring Lord 's Island which seemed to have had a strange fascination for him , as it has for the present writer who has also , found for herself , the vestiges of the pier , the house , the shooting butts , etc . |
| 27 | The Angolan government , increasingly looking to free market policies to revive the economy , last month joined the International Monetary Fund in Washington , and says , as it has for the past three years , that a devaluation of the Kwanza and the lifting of controls on many goods is imminent . |
| 28 | Now that the work has been completed I hope the church will continue to attract pilgrims to the shrine of St Melangell , as it has for the last eight hundred years . |
| 29 | Under the old two group format it was very much down to luck as to who you were drawn with , the new system is much better , it allows for the odd hiccup , gives an extra dimension to every game and rewards those teams that perform on the day . |
| 30 | Yeah she had it , she was just going into theatre at the end of the programme , she was having it done for the fourth time |