Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [vb infin] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For one reason , space is almost a vacuum , so that molecules erm are few and far between , and one thing about chemistry it is really the science of not particularly molecules but molecules that react with one another , but here once one has got a molecule in space it does n't actually meet another one for a very long time , so even a molecule that is reactive and which may only last for maybe a microsecond in the laboratory , interstellar space it may last for a thousand years . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Although it may cry for a short time , it should settle down and sleep before long . |
| 4 | I 've tried it with Episode 1 , and it may work for the other two episodes as well . |
| 5 | Our endorsement of Tory macro-economic policy , and acceptance that it should aim for no more than monetary stability , meant we were unable to offer them a convincing route to full employment or economic recovery . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It 's a good , well-made , sturdy one ( a Mothercare Taxi ) , so it should last for a second child and it 's easy to fold down with one hand . |
| 8 | Without doubt the two best Cup teams in the country have reached Twickenham this season and it should make for a superb final . |
| 9 | Clearly then , if the company is to choose one it should opt for the first . |
| 10 | As a young animal grows its rank changes , but not automatically ; it must fight for every increase in dominance it achieves . |
| 11 | If the non-Tory intelligentsia truly wants to do more than tinker in its own backyard , it must look for a route to power that can connect Cambridge with Basildon . |
| 12 | It must provide for a nominee to act as the IVA 's trustee or supervisor . |
| 13 | Every Buddhist boy became a monk for a period , it might be for a lent , or a year or two , it might continue for a lifetime or be as short as a week . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | Few performers would be entirely happy touring the country as , say , Oswald Mosley , although it might make for a more interesting evening dramatically . |
| 16 | It was a syndrome I had observed in other service marriages , not least in that of my own parents , and I have sometimes thought what a good subject it might make for a novel or play . |
| 17 | He had no intention of drinking the stuff , but it might do for a shave . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Give it a flick it 'll go for a long way because there 's no , there 's very little friction on the ice and erm the second one is the , the awkward one . |
| 21 | Does n't matter I mean , it 'll go for a long time you know . |
| 22 | Oh it 'll pay for a bit of the ferry but has , has no one approached the unions ? |
| 23 | ‘ And it 'll last for a while yet . |
| 24 | ‘ It 'll do for the man it is for . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've taken another envelope : it 'll do for the next batch of typescript . ’ |
| 26 | And it 'll run for an hour without pedalling . |
| 27 | Oh aye , oh y y you better get used to that , cos it 'll happen for the rest of your life . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It 'll work for a lot of them . |
| 30 | It could last for an hour or a day or days , rising and falling . |