Example sentences of "it [vb past] for [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These and many other such instances , however , are mainly cases where , although the constitution forbade the enactment of the law in question by that legislature or process , it provided for it to be enacted in some other way , e.g. by constitutional amendment . |
| 2 | It paid for it with cash of £4m and loan notes of £2.75m — i.e. a promise to pay the £2.75m four years later — and the payment was guaranteed by Ansbacher Bank . |
| 3 | The more History attempts to transcend its own rootedness in historicity , and the greater the efforts it makes to attain , beyond the historical relativity of its origin and its choices , the sphere of universality , the more clearly it bears the marks of its historical birth , and the more evidently there appears through it the history of which it is itself a part … inversely , the more it accepts its relativity , and the more deeply it sinks into the movement it shares with what it is recounting , then the more it tends to the slenderness of the narrative , and all the positive content it obtained for itself through the human sciences is dissipated . |
| 4 | In a way it functioned for us like window shopping : a random five minute slice of a feature would enable us to decide whether to see the whole thing at the Shoals , Princess or Majestic in Florence , when it resurfaced there . |
| 5 | It waited for him in Zürich , Poshekhonov would say , the pay-off . |
| 6 | To generalize and say that it stood for anything at all was self-delusion and deceit . |