Example sentences of "it [vb -s] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It equips for battle |
| 2 | A big attraction of the West Country for many second home owners is the opportunity it offers for waterside living . |
| 3 | What makes the new round of work potentially so profitable is the scope it offers for experiment . |
| 4 | Our general topic of discussion is perceptual consciousness and the problem that it constitutes for physicalism . |
| 5 | The broker 's global strategist , John Reynolds , citing the removal of political risk , accompanied by some healthy investment interest from Europe , sees the market reaching 2700 before it pauses for breath . |
| 6 | If the nature of the risk is displayed as in Figure 6.10 , corporate management is explicitly given the data it needs for evaluation . |
| 7 | If the nature of the risk is displayed as in Figure 6.10 , corporate management is explicitly given the data it needs for evaluation . |
| 8 | The strategy identifies key issues which GDA and others in the city must address in order to offer this sector the environment it needs for success . |
| 9 | You know B J , it stands for blow job right . |
| 10 | It stands for Rest , Ice , Compression and Elevation . |
| 11 | But those who believe in the monarchy like to think it stands for stability and good example . |
| 12 | It stands for allo allo allo . |
| 13 | For those tha who are not to familiar with , the initials P P G , it stands for planning policy guidance , and there are a whole series of these guidance notes produced by the Department of the Environment for the er advice guidance of , well not only the local planning authorities but anyone else who is interested in the development business , and they are expressions of , I suppose government policy , er and their attitudes towards various aspects , whether it 's countryside , housing , trans or transport , and they do pro provide a useful backcloth , in fact an extremely valuable backcloth to the way in which er this matter should be considered , erm I know from the submission which North Yorkshire County Council have used they would say that the fact they have n't had regard to all this er , but I would like to carry on the discussion against that background , and could you direct your thinking at this stage about the need for a new settlement in the light of the principles spelt out in P P G three and particularly paragraph thirty three . |
| 14 | It stands for Local Exchange Trading System , and it 's a way of overcoming your lack of money without the incompatibilities of barter . |
| 15 | ‘ I think it stands for Shadow Scheme , ’ says Pamela . |
| 16 | ‘ The four As , sometimes they just put figure 4 and capital A. It stands for Action Against Animal Abuse . ’ |
| 17 | They will work with Sun on development of communications projects for nomadic computing — tying in with the work at Sun 's new FirstPerson unit ( CI No 2,119 ) , and is to use Sparc systems for all workstation products it develops for use in Russia . |
| 18 | It looks for recovery on the back on a new pocket computer out next week . |
| 19 | KnowledgeWare Inc , Atlanta warns that it expects to report non-recurring charges of $20m for its fiscal third quarter to March 31 from acquisitions and restructuring and expansion of product lines , and that this will lead to a loss for the quarter and for the year ; it also says that lower revenues combined with operating costs associated with the acquisitions are expected to contribute to a third quarter operating loss ; it looks for growth in European revenues . |
| 20 | We will also seek further opportunities for the private sector to contribute , as it has for example with the Channel Tunnel , the Queen Elizabeth II bridge at Dartford , the second Severn Bridge and the Birmingham Northern Ring Road . |
| 21 | Actual quantities , which exceed internal expectations of only a month ago , boil down to between 100,000 and 200,000 units a quarter , which in turn means that by the end of the current quarter Sun expects to be able to fill all the back orders it has for Model 41 Sparcstation 10s plus the orders it receives in the intervening weeks . |
| 22 | Actual quantities , which exceed internal expectations of only a month ago , boil down to between 100,000 and 200,000 units a quarter which in turn means that by the end of the current quarter Sun expects to be able to fill all the back orders it has for Model 41 Sparcstation 10s plus the orders they get in the intervening weeks . |
| 23 | They include Azabu Group , which plans to sell 60 properties worth around ¥200 billion by the end of June ; Itoman , a trading company which hopes to sell and lease back its Osaka headquarters for ¥80 billion as a first step towards paying off its debt of ¥1.3 trillion , much of it owed to Sumitomo Bank ; and MDI , which wants to unload ¥50 billion out of ¥150 billion worth of residential property that it holds for development . |
| 24 | It depends for success upon the goodwill and support of the LEAs and the schools . |
| 25 | But it is an option that I certainly would n't want to discount at this particular er stage erm because it depends on so many er factors , it depends for example whether er the site that er has been identified for up to two thousand and six , and which is developed up to two thousand and six , has the physical capacity to expand beyond two thousand and six , and I think that that ought to be one of the considerations perhaps that we ought to look at as we move towards the identification erm er of the new settlement , conversely , it could well be that ought to be looking at a second new settlement in a different location , erm I ca n't give an answer , a definitive answer , what I can say is , coming back again er to Mr Brook , this sort of issue er will not be picked up in nineteen eighty eight or nineteen eighty nine , er if we are all alive and kicking in North Yorkshire and the District Councils we will be looking at it regularly , we 'll be looking at it in two years time , one years time , erm erm that 's the way we work in Greater York , and it 's basically worked very successfully . |
| 26 | The praying mantis has a single ear in the middle of its thorax which it uses for bat detection . |
| 27 | It allows for scaling , rotation and many other ways of manipulating images . |
| 28 | The fourth merit of Johnson 's approach is that it allows for mobility of jobs between categories , although he does not attach as much significance as Hughes ( 1958 ) to the efforts of the ‘ professionals ’ themselves in this regard . |
| 29 | It allows for subjectivity and freedom of opinion within fairly strict guidelines . |
| 30 | Well , you need n't call it wages for housework , you could call it the state paying for childcare at home , could n't you ? |