Example sentences of "it [verb] for an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It provided for an executive President and a bicameral National Assembly , the lower house of which would be elected for a five-year term , with the upper house being partly elected and partly appointed . |
| 2 | But the slogan , however carelessly drafted , means something more than banality ; it stands for an attitude that is important and open to challenge . |
| 3 | It calls for an alliance between environmentalists , consumer organizations , churches and trade unions , but concludes that the real impetus for change will come when Southern countries challenge the North 's addiction to consumer lifestyles . |
| 4 | It calls for an end to the fighting , and re-asserts the OAS principles of non-interference in the internal afairs of other states and no military action against a fellow OAS member except in the case of aggression . |
| 5 | Frequently they are relevant and will be followed on appeal — but during the six months to a year it takes for an appeal to come to a hearing the minister could have changed , while the current appeals will have been lodged long before the words have been spoken . |
| 6 | It called for an investigation of the charges by a " neutral international investigation committee " or the International Court of Justice . |
| 7 | It called for an end to the Arab boycott of Israel , and for Israel to end the " policy of settlement in the Occupied Territories " . |
| 8 | It called for an end to our tradition of holding an annual conference . |
| 9 | David is concerned at the length of time he says it took for an ambulance to arrive . |
| 10 | Mead says that its mainframe was running at maximum capacity , but rather than upgrade , it searched for an alternative due to the rising costs of proprietary mainframe technology . |
| 11 | He said : ’ It provides for an expansion of treaty-based Community competence into areas of wage bargaining and social security that should rightly remain with member states ’ . |
| 12 | It remained for an establishment scientist , Thomas Young [ q.v. ] , to suggest in 1802 that the physical variable underlying colour is a continuous one , whereas Palmer 's idea of three discrete receptors is correct at the retinal level . |