Example sentences of "it [verb] for an " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It provided for an estimated expenditure of L£597,000 million and revenues of L£210,000 million . |
| 4 | It provided for an executive President and a bicameral National Assembly , the lower house of which would be elected for a five-year term , with the upper house being partly elected and partly appointed . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But the slogan , however carelessly drafted , means something more than banality ; it stands for an attitude that is important and open to challenge . |
| 7 | It calls for an end to the fighting , and re-asserts the OAS principles of non-interference in the internal afairs of other states and no military action against a fellow OAS member except in the case of aggression . |
| 8 | It calls for an urgent shake-up in hospital accident centres and trauma services . |
| 9 | It calls for an easily understood system to end the confusion surrounding pesticide names . |
| 10 | It calls for an alliance between environmentalists , consumer organizations , churches and trade unions , but concludes that the real impetus for change will come when Southern countries challenge the North 's addiction to consumer lifestyles . |
| 11 | Frequently they are relevant and will be followed on appeal — but during the six months to a year it takes for an appeal to come to a hearing the minister could have changed , while the current appeals will have been lodged long before the words have been spoken . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It called for an end to the Arab boycott of Israel , and for Israel to end the " policy of settlement in the Occupied Territories " . |
| 15 | 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 " . |
| 16 | It called for an investigation of the charges by a " neutral international investigation committee " or the International Court of Justice . |
| 17 | It called for an end to our tradition of holding an annual conference . |
| 18 | David is concerned at the length of time he says it took for an ambulance to arrive . |
| 19 | The public understands more easily what it means for an old lady to have five pounds snatched from her purse than to grasp the financial significance of 25 million customers paying one penny more for orange juice diluted beyond the level permitted by law . |
| 20 | But wherever she works , a woman-centred psychologist 's sex does not guarantee her feminism , any more than it does for an egalitarian feminist psychologist . |
| 21 | Mead says that its mainframe was running at maximum capacity , but rather than upgrade , it searched for an alternative due to the rising costs of proprietary mainframe technology . |
| 22 | Alternately , having made the cheese as above , leave it draining for an extra six to eight hours . |
| 23 | He said : ’ It provides for an expansion of treaty-based Community competence into areas of wage bargaining and social security that should rightly remain with member states ’ . |
| 24 | Second , how can we be sure that it provides for an accurate and reliable estimate of that population ? |
| 25 | It provides for an annual Apex Conference , it stipulates that the conference shall be advisory to the C E C and all decisions shall be subject to C E C congress policy . |
| 26 | It remained for an establishment scientist , Thomas Young [ q.v. ] , to suggest in 1802 that the physical variable underlying colour is a continuous one , whereas Palmer 's idea of three discrete receptors is correct at the retinal level . |
| 27 | It 's a good , dramatic blend and , given that the rest of the Heineken League is equally topsy-turvy , it makes for an entertaining diversion while Alan Davies , Bob Norster and Gareth Jenkins wrestle with the real problems on the big stage . |
| 28 | But on a good day it makes for an exhilarating walk taking in two of the most appealing summits in the Lake District — Bowfell and Crinkle Crags . |
| 29 | It makes for an extraordinary mixture but an entertaining one , as eclectic as the individual pieces he describes . |