Example sentences of "it [vb past] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A proposal for the reform of the Italian railway network advocated the dismissal of the board if it failed for two years running to achieve performance targets ( Santoro 1985 ) , and the Spanish Socialist government has similarly toyed with the idea of sacking unsuccessful chairmen ( Tamames 1983 : 371 ) . |
| 2 | Calday Grange Grammar School also faced a second ballot over opting out after it applied for grant-maintained status last year . |
| 3 | That assessment has only to be read to indicart to indicate what it fortended for future success in her chosen career . |
| 4 | It did not say that the BBC wanted an experienced journalist' : it asked for relevant experience . |
| 5 | We can not as readers see this as a fault , since it made for such richness of scene and mood , though Marryat seems to have felt it so . |
| 6 | The picaresque vitality of Richardson 's novel begins to wane early in the third volume ( a frequent fate of follow-ups ) and , as a theatre audience does not have the opportunity to plough through stodgy bits in their own time , we felt it made for better drama to kill Pamela ( in the novel she comes near to death ) before the dramatic conflict itself dies . |
| 7 | Still , it made for exciting viewing ; - ) That s what I miss about Sterland … few full backs are better coming forward than he was . |
| 8 | However , middle class observers were sensitive to the possibility that the working class husband might not provide ; after all , the bourgeois family model was favoured because of the work incentive it provided for working class men , which presupposed that such an incentive was necessary . |
| 9 | It provided for 532 flats and maisonettes in eleven storey and four storey blocks . |
| 10 | It provided for total investments of Epounds 14,500 million , of which Epounds 9,600 million would be allocated to the public sector and the balance to the private sector . |
| 11 | There was another feature of the legislation , in that it provided for new ways of involving the public in plan preparation . |
| 12 | The agreement endorsed the principle of " self-sufficiency " , which stipulated that waste should be treated or disposed of as close as possible to the point of production , although it provided for some flexibility in the case of smaller countries . |
| 13 | Were Lascars and Chinamen to benefit from the improvements in food , accommodation , repatriation etc. which it provided for British seamen ? |
| 14 | By 1820 , it was owned and worked by Robert Wight , who continued to manufacture cloth there , the mill becoming known as Wights Mill , a name that it retained for many years . |
| 15 | Fujitsu will hand over the goods from houses in Darlington that it used for Japanese staff while the new factory was being built and equipped . |
| 16 | It burned for three days . |
| 17 | It rained for four days . |
| 18 | ‘ Last time I was here it rained for forty days . |
| 19 | For a week it rained for several hours each day . |
| 20 | It rained for three days . |
| 21 | And he said well just get yourself home and tell your father that I want it paid for this time because I only replaced that glass last week , which he had |
| 22 | Almost 20 people aged 16–25 attended the Young Persons ' Health Clinic at Park Place Health Centre when it opened for two hours on February 7 . |
| 23 | Trying to out-do the star-studded cast it assembled for last year 's Object World San Francisco , the Object Management Group has come up with Steve Jobs , NeXT Computer Inc chief executive ; Lee Reiswig , IBM Corp Personal Software Division president ; John Edwards , Novell Inc executive vice president ; Bud Tribble , NeXT co-founder and SunSoft Inc vice president User Systems ; Representative Edward Markey , chairman , the US House Telecommunication & Finance Committee ; Bo Hedfors , L M Ericsson Telefon AB chief technology officer ; Kurt Fischer , Pentagon director , Department of Defense Information and Elaine Bond , Chase Manhattan Bank vice-president . |
| 24 | It was their deep love for the Llŷn landscape , and a desire to keep it protected for future generations , which prompted the three Keating sisters , Honora , Lorna and Eileen , and their eighty-year-old mother to buy Plas-yn-Rhiw and its fifty-eight acres in 1939 ; later they purchased over 300 acres more with the express purpose of giving the land to the trust . |
| 25 | This afternoon it poured for two hours solid . |
| 26 | It catered for three Wehrmacht officers , the Danish research engineer and his chief assistant , and a young SS officer who was the Dane 's personal security escort . |
| 27 | Until the middle of the nineteenth century the whole of this load , equivalent to the weight of many railway trains , had to be carried by hemp ropes which were always shrinking and swelling , rotting and stretching so that it called for great skill to avoid the loss of some or all of the masts and spars . |
| 28 | It called for financial support and the transfer of environmentally-appropriate technology from richer nations , in return for agreement from rainforest states to safeguard their forests for global benefit . |
| 29 | First , it called for international support for the Iraqi " uprising " and appealed to the Iraqi army to join the ranks of the rebels . |
| 30 | It called for international agreements to support sustainable development , with payments made by companies which profited from indigenous knowledge of plant properties . |