Example sentences of "it [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It failed for the simple reason that no coherent principles or policies came forward to replace the old ones . |
| 2 | As the sun strikes their heads it plays for a while , scatters silver seed and dances away again , unnoticed . |
| 3 | My records nee go it it plays for a bit , then it goes brurgh ! |
| 4 | As far as I can see , there is not likely to be anywhere for it to go for the next five or 10 years , except east on the A47 or south on the A6 . |
| 5 | She is thinking of her new novel ( ‘ Letting it germinate for a period ’ ) and seems very busy and hungry . |
| 6 | He dropped the letter on to his desk where it fluttered for a moment , an innocent reminder of the arrangement made in that grey stone house in Ghent . |
| 7 | It fluttered for a moment and then folded right back against the fuselage , like a roosting bird . |
| 8 | AS GOOD as it got for the deranged Los Angeles combo . |
| 9 | The coroner heard it revealed for the first time — none of the family knew it — that Charlie had had a stroke a few months before , which explained the strange behaviour . |
| 10 | It planned for a more open democracy to include a revision of " anti-terrorism " legislation and improvements in the field of human rights , media censorship and academic freedom . |
| 11 | The DOS version is even cheaper — it goes for a very reasonable £59 . |
| 12 | wait a minute , we 'll leave that in there we 'll let it go out , see how it goes for a couple of months , Glen will know where we can use any money for that anyway for a couple of months |
| 13 | Gallons of intoxicating percussion guided rhythms fuel ‘ Pot Of Gold ’ like a train rampaging along an empty track as it goes for an energetic jog in the shadows , pacing along a tireless circuit . |
| 14 | He hesitated only briefly before he said , ‘ Because it asked for a reservation I have no wish to make . |
| 15 | Mick began , then paused where it asked for the name of the vehicle 's owner . |
| 16 | And it asked for the Scottish Office Guidelines , and those in Lord Justice Butler-Sloss 's Cleveland Report , to be made law . |
| 17 | Since the death of Sir Henry Wellcome in 1936 , the company has been wholly owned by the Wellcome Trust , a registered charity which distributes all profits it receives for the support of medical and allied research in universities and hospitals throughout the world . |
| 18 | Spread out the seaweed into the shape in which it is to be pressed while still in the water , then slowly lift it out of the basin , keeping it flat , let it drip for a while and then place it on a waterproof surface . |
| 19 | Rye stood out from most other towns in that it became for a while a Puritan ‘ Common Wealth ’ , a centre of social experiment and rigorous public morality under its two vicars , Joseph Beeton and his successor John Allen . |
| 20 | Their friends told them they were crazy , it sold for a nickel and nobody , they discovered , had the curiosity to buy it although it did make all the local Greenwich Village news-stands . |
| 21 | This , of course , is a popular subject : it seems particularly attractive to the poet-turned-novelist because of the scope it offers for the tremulously sensitive probing of feelings . |
| 22 | Bull , developing parallel Unix boxes with IBM , says it may license technology it developed for the EDS project to big blue . |
| 23 | The Department of Energy sprang a surprise in the autumn of 1989 when the paper it produced for the ‘ responses ’ group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggested that , with more efficient use of energy , Britain could cut its consumption ( and hence carbon dioxide ) by 60 per cent by 2005 or 2020 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | They were n't so much being difficult as simply teasing , and it made for a very amusing if unproductive hour . |
| 27 | This was popular for warships but it made for a heavy hull . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Perhaps it made for a safer relationship if , instead of arguing to a standstill , the party who felt herself misunderstood took her grievance elsewhere and satiated it in transgression . |
| 30 | It made for a somewhat strained atmosphere , but as a company they were used to that . |