Example sentences of "it [vb past] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was popular for warships but it made for a heavy hull . |
| 2 | It made for a magnificent setting that culminated in that miracle of Verdi 's old age , the choral fugue that ends the opera , here sung with brilliant clarity and precision . |
| 3 | I think in any marriage or in any family the father and the mother both play different parts , and in my own life I can remember things my mother did and things my father did and together it made for a happy home . |
| 4 | All in all it made for an uncomfortable meal , despite the chef 's first-class skills , and Sarella at least was pleased when it was all over and Marc , with deliberately precise timing , pushed his chair back to signal that they could now follow him out . |
| 5 | It provided for a minimum but no maximum . |
| 6 | It provided for a strong president , to be elected by a National Assembly for a five-year term . |
| 7 | It provided for a Supreme and a Constitutional Court , a High Court of Justice , an Economic and Social Council and a National Assembly elected under a multiparty system . |
| 8 | Technically , it was not a presidential system , because it provided for a dual executive , with a president and a prime minister . |
| 9 | Published in August 1990 [ see p. 37807 ] and adopted by a constituent assembly on Dec. 15 , it provided for a multiparty system and direct elections for the presidency in 1991 . |
| 10 | It provided for an estimated expenditure of L£597,000 million and revenues of L£210,000 million . |
| 11 | It provided for an elected head of state who would appoint a Prime Minister from the party winning a majority in elections to a bicameral parliament comprising a National Assembly and Senate . |
| 12 | It played for a little while , I did n't play it for long but it did play . |
| 13 | Some from , a lot from the heavens , because it rained for a solid week after the excavator had left and erm from the springs , it 's a natural water-gathering area . |
| 14 | In so acting it acted for a dependent reason , for the assumption is that individuals have reason to wish for a convention and hence reason to take action to help form one . |
| 15 | Voting patterns in these constituencies indicated that the FIS would have little difficulty in securing the additional 28 seats it needed for an absolute majority in the National Assembly . |
| 16 | It rang for a long time , and he thought he was going to be out of luck , but eventually the receiver was picked up the other end . |
| 17 | It was an unhappy morning , and a sulky afternoon , and when towards evening Clarissa had collected enough moral courage to approach the telephone , it rang for an incoming call before she could pick it up . |
| 18 | It called for a revised constitution and the legalization of other political parties . |
| 19 | In its report of that name published in November 1987 it called for a full national strategy in cooperation with Eurotunnel , British Rail and regional interests to ensure that the potential benefits of the Tunnel are maximised ; the support of necessary infrastructure projects which do not meet current criteria for approval ; and a full technical study of the feasibility of a high speed rail link between Manchester and Continental Europe . |
| 20 | It called for a national plan , with the full co-operation of Commonwealth governments . |
| 21 | In April it called for a three-tier market , including an international equity market made up of the top 350 companies , a national market for most of the remaining companies listed on the Official List and the USM , and an enterprise market with minimum requirements for those companies not on the Official List , the intention being that those companies in the enterprise market should comprise higher risk operations . |
| 22 | It called for a EuroFed to co-ordinate monetary policies . |
| 23 | If there had been no reason for the attack , it called for a severe sentence ; in one sense , revenge attacks , which themselves strike a blow at public justice , could be said to aggravate the gravity of the offence . |
| 24 | It called for an immediate halt to land confiscations and settlement building in the Occupied Territories , in order to allow for " bilateral negotiations on the withdrawal of Israeli forces , the dissolution of Israeli administration and the transfer of authority to the Palestinian people " . |
| 25 | Tony Dobson put Portsmouth ahead early on and it looked for a long time as though that was going to be the only goal of the game . |
| 26 | Even as he asked the question , Seb realised that it no longer hurt in the way it had for a long time . |
| 27 | But it lasted for a good seven or eight years after the war was finished . |
| 28 | Home po 2 monitoring was undertaken in 134 patients ; in the 120 patients who have discontinued it lasted for a median duration of 5.5 months ( range 0.3–17.5 ) . |
| 29 | ‘ And that 's how it stayed for a long , long time . |