Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [vb infin] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The relationship was initiated or terminated with minimal ceremony though it could endure for a lifetime . |
| 32 | It is no mystery that a child can feel compelled to judge himself from his father 's viewpoint , although it may seem so if one uses Freudian language and starts puzzling about what it could mean for an instinctive egoist to ‘ introject ’ the image of his father . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | It can prohibit or impose conditions upon activities ; it can impose conditions upon or even revoke authorisation and it could petition for a winding-up of a society 's operation . |
| 35 | Were the Labour party to have the trust of its people , it could legislate for every item in the social chapter tomorrow . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | To make the program more useful , it could ask for the names of the input and output files at " run time " . |
| 39 | A speed which , once it had lumbered up to it , it could maintain for a long time . |
| 40 | The marriage of James 's son James IV to Margaret Tudor , from which the Stewart claim to the English throne derived , came about more because of pressure from Henry VII than from any Scottish enthusiasm ; and the Treaty of Perpetual Peace which accompanied it would last for no more than eleven years , collapsing because James could not sustain his obligations to both France and England when Henry VIII joined the pope 's grotesquely named Holy League against France . |
| 41 | Lastly the serrated blade of the sickle required no sharpening : it would last for a whole harvest without attention . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | After all , if the Queen won the jackpot 60 times , it would pay for the Windsor Castle restorations . |
| 44 | It would sit for a limited period , probably less than six months , and would take over responsibility for those areas of state operation essential for impartial elections including the security forces , a limited budgetary role , the state-owned media and the conduct of the elections themselves . |
| 45 | Either because he had the hump or because he thought it would make for a good show he started smashing the footlights one by one . |
| 46 | If the English paintings in the National Gallery could be included ( and I imagine that is not possible ) , it would make for a truly remarkable museum a real tribute to the ‘ Englishness of English art ’ . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | 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 ’ . |
| 50 | Did he really believe that it would vote for the introduction of industrial democracy in the Bullock Report 's dubious prescription for it ? |
| 51 | The process of report and interrogation took quite a time , and Rostov began to suspect that if he and the others were to be subjected to some form of tribunal before their fate was decided , then at least it would pass for a fair one . |
| 52 | In January Czechoslovakia announced that it would press for the withdrawal of 75,000 Soviet troops from its territory by the end of 1990 . |
| 53 | It 's very small , only just room for the bunk , but it would do for a time . |
| 54 | It was off , but it would do for a round of roulette . |
| 55 | It would n't fool them for long but it would do for a moment . |
| 56 | But it would do for a comic sketch — ‘ |
| 57 | ‘ See what it would cost for a couple of places on her ? ’ |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | It is also cheaper for parents — they pay an average £60 for 42 hours of care a week under the Glaxo scheme , compared with a subsidised £85 the company anticipates it would charge for a workplace nursery . |
| 60 | 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 . |