Example sentences of "it [vb -s] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It specifies for the managing adults when to give a lot of positive attention , and precisely the behaviour they are aiming to reinforce . |
| 4 | From there it looks for the infra-red ‘ signature ’ of a rocket 's exhaust . |
| 5 | It looks for the Highest Common Factor ( HCF ) and seeks to promote that . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It looks for the new round of retrenchments to have a positive effect on 1993 profits , but ca n't forecast them . |
| 8 | Instead of resting on its fundraising laurels , it has for the second year turned to race organising as a means of generating essential revenue . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It checks for the latest bug fixes , cross-referencing bugs-to-source , reports of the severity and quanity of defects in releases and searches for defects based on the audit trail between bug reports and source code . |
| 14 | It includes for the first time in one volume additional indexes for porcelain painters , enamellers and silhouettists , incorporating the work of artists up to the present day . |
| 15 | It includes for the first time a modest amount of money for social science research , and emphasizes closer ties to international research laboratories such as CERN , the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva , and EMBL , the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg , as well as closer cooperation with national research organizations . |
| 16 | However as far as the basic strategy is concerned of this particular alteration , it includes for the first time , conversions . |
| 17 | It calls for the invalid care allowance to be increased and extended in the budget . |
| 18 | The graph below shows how long it takes for the present value of £1,000 per year to reach £15,000 . |
| 19 | The basic idea can be captured in minutes and the total concept fully realised in , at most , a couple of hours , which is a lot faster than it takes for the same degree of finish to be achieved in any other medium . |
| 20 | It accounts for the curious , rather comical way they have of standing perfectly upright and perfectly still while surveying their surroundings with a quick 240° swivel , like a furry periscope . |
| 21 | Though this notion of what I shall be calling ‘ discursive metaphor ’ may seem itself to be metaphoric , it is , as we shall see , a justified extension of the standard definition , as it accounts for the distinct use of figurality in Brooke-Rose 's fiction . |
| 22 | It accounts for the constant visits of the apostle to the Gentiles back to the Jerusalem church ( Acts 18:21 , 20:16 , 25:1 etc. ) , and his organisation of a great collection for their benefit , little though he could have approved of their theology ( Rom. 15:26 , I Cor. 16:1 , 2 Cor. 8:1ff ) . |
| 23 | Mr. Raffan : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will make a statement on the Government 's National Health Service review , " Working for Patients " , as it caters for the distinctive health care needs and circumstances in Wales . |
| 24 | Finally , in view of the crucial part which the further education sector plays in the educational and economic well-being of Wales , not least in the way in which it caters for the indigenous population , it is regrettable that too big a gap still exists between it and the secondary school sector and too few Welshmen and women , particularly perhaps among those who are Welsh speaking , recognize its many achievements in the past and the vital contribution which it will be called upon to make in the future . |
| 25 | The travelling showman William Haggar 's The Life of Charles Peace ( 1905 ) may be less achieved but the sympathy it elicits for the ingenious villain who had been hanged in 1879 marks it out as a piece of genuine popular entertainment . |
| 26 | What it means for the broader economy is that the current housing crisis is more serious than ever , and there does n't seem to be an end in sight . |
| 27 | The signatures of these ‘ partner equivalents ’ would serve to document the individuals ' responsibility for the examination ; to that extent it eliminates for the outside world the element of anonymity currently inherent in the practice of signing audit opinions only in the names of the firms . |
| 28 | The key to an understanding of relief-giving is in the functions it serves for the larger economic and political order , for relief is a secondary and supportive institution . |
| 29 | This report Mr Chairman is already history which is as Mr has said not to say it does n't represent progress , it addresses for the first time the historical issues , it starts to address the lessons of the first quarter . |
| 30 | To detect the regularities in nature , propose a generalization , deduce what it implies for the next case and observe whether this prediction succeeds . |