Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , as seems likely , this line swings southwestwards at its western end towards the Farmborough Compression Zone , it may account for the otherwise puzzling discrepancy between the E.N.E.-W.S.W. strike of the basement thrust as seen on seismic ( Chadwick et a/. 1983 ) and the E.-W. trend of the Vale of Pewsey . |
| 2 | I 've tried it with Episode 1 , and it may work for the other two episodes as well . |
| 3 | Complain that the Committee is not getting the coverage it ought to have for the work it 's doing . |
| 4 | After several years of policy development , the RHA came to the conclusion that it should aim for the closure of all the six mental hospitals , rather than just two . |
| 5 | Clearly then , if the company is to choose one it should opt for the first . |
| 6 | The planner was elevated to the role of a coordinating ‘ technician-craftsman ’ ; the practice of civic design as perceived by Holford would ‘ elevate the plan from technical , functional competence to the level at which it might cater for the cultural , emotional and aesthetic needs of a civilised society ’ ( Cherry and Penny , 1986 , p. 158 ) . |
| 7 | It might account for the recapture of Aberdeen South and Kincardine and Deeside , for Michael Forsyth 's survival in Stirling , and for the remarkable defence by Phil Gallie , a new candidate , of George Younger 's 182 majority in Ayr . |
| 8 | Napoleon III had no desire to emulate St Louis by sitting under an oak tree in Vincennes dispensing justice to all comers , but in a more up-to-date version he went one better by donating the entire area of the park ( which belonged to the Crown ) to the City of Paris so that it might become for the poorer section of the city what the Bois de Boulogne was to the rich . |
| 9 | ‘ It 'll do for the man it is for . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've taken another envelope : it 'll do for the next batch of typescript . ’ |
| 11 | Oh aye , oh y y you better get used to that , cos it 'll happen for the rest of your life . |
| 12 | POSC says it 'll call for the development of a set of industry-specific widgets next year when a more complete range of interface recommendations will be presented . |
| 13 | It has been known for many years that recycling used materials helps make great savings , but it was not until recently that it was realised how much good that it could do for the environment . |
| 14 | Donald Goodenough , in his scholarly review of the very technical evidence on this issue comparing the recall of dreams by different personality types , comes to the conclusion that while repression may be responsible for the forgetting of some dreams , it is not feasible that it could account for the majority . |
| 15 | It will not get hot enough to emit X rays , but it could account for the very compact source of radio waves and infrared rays that is observed at the galactic center . |
| 16 | To make the program more useful , it could ask for the names of the input and output files at " run time " . |
| 17 | Indeed one of the main arguments against the televising of Parliament was that it would damage the way the House works , although some thought it would change for the better . |
| 18 | After all , if the Queen won the jackpot 60 times , it would pay for the Windsor Castle restorations . |
| 19 | The train had already left Sion when the avalanche struck and with the possibility of further minor falls it had retreated to the sanctuary of the station where the passengers were told it would remain for the rest of the night . |
| 20 | Theda 's eyes remained closed as the lumbering stagecoach rumbled its way from Newark , where she had caught it outside the Saracen 's Head , to Ashby-de-la-Zouch , where it would remain for the night before proceeding to Stafford . |
| 21 | In order to make appeal to this methodology , which is very commonly used in linguistic and philosophical discussion , we need to know what it would mean for the context to be ‘ slightly different ’ . |
| 22 | Did he really believe that it would vote for the introduction of industrial democracy in the Bullock Report 's dubious prescription for it ? |
| 23 | In January Czechoslovakia announced that it would press for the withdrawal of 75,000 Soviet troops from its territory by the end of 1990 . |
| 24 | Erm it would cost for the four for the four nights of the con conference , that 's from the Wednesday night to the Saturday night inclusive , six pounds a night each will almost cover the cost and we 've fitted in an extra person on the floor at three pounds a night that would clear the cost completely . |
| 25 | One suggestion is that the folding maintains the appropriate kinetic unit of the chain at any given temperature ; as this would be expected to lengthen with increasing temperature , it would account for the observed thickening of the lamellae . |
| 26 | It would account for the strong resemblance . |
| 27 | Others besides the agency girl must have seen them leaving together ; she wondered how long it would take for the news to reach Pete . |
| 28 | It would have even more credibility if the Labour party would claim and set out the funding that it would provide for the national health service , which it has expressly failed to do . |
| 29 | During the election campaign the PCCh , which was not legalized , had announced on Nov. 9 , 1989 , that it would work for the victory of the presidential opposition candidate ; the former secretary-general of the PCCh , Luis Corvalán , who had returned to Chile on Oct. 12 after 13 years in exile , had made a similar declaration . |
| 30 | I 've been told it 's about as good as it will gfet for the time being . |