Example sentences of "it [vb -s] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It specifies for the managing adults when to give a lot of positive attention , and precisely the behaviour they are aiming to reinforce . |
| 6 | As ‘ sacrament ’ it stands for the sacrifice of the cross through which we were brought near to God . |
| 7 | It represents the logical conclusion to preceding buildings and is the expression of national culture ; it stands for the essence of Muscovite Christianity in Russia and was the last great church of the movement in this architectural form . |
| 8 | From there it looks for the infra-red ‘ signature ’ of a rocket 's exhaust . |
| 9 | It looks for the new round of retrenchments to have a positive effect on 1993 profits , but ca n't forecast them . |
| 10 | When the computer is trying to save a new file to a disc , it looks for the first available fragment of space , writes as much of the new file as will fit , then looks for another available fragment of space , writes a bit more , and so on until all the file is written somewhere on the disc . |
| 11 | It looks for the Highest Common Factor ( HCF ) and seeks to promote that . |
| 12 | The Angolan government , increasingly looking to free market policies to revive the economy , last month joined the International Monetary Fund in Washington , and says , as it has for the past three years , that a devaluation of the Kwanza and the lifting of controls on many goods is imminent . |
| 13 | Instead of resting on its fundraising laurels , it has for the second year turned to race organising as a means of generating essential revenue . |
| 14 | Green was all for restoring Lord 's Island which seemed to have had a strange fascination for him , as it has for the present writer who has also , found for herself , the vestiges of the pier , the house , the shooting butts , etc . |
| 15 | By not considering the results of case management practice and research in greater depth and learning more about the value it has for the most needy clients of the health and welfare system , we are in danger of failing to learn the lessons which others have learned , and of having to re-live their mistakes . |
| 16 | Now that the work has been completed I hope the church will continue to attract pilgrims to the shrine of St Melangell , as it has for the last eight hundred years . |
| 17 | The origin legend of the Merovingians as recorded by Fredegar is important not only for its suggestion that the family claimed to be descended from a supernatural ancestor , but also for the implications it has for the rise of the dynasty . |
| 18 | This series of squares is disquieting as it heads for the horizon unless it allows for the curvature of the Earth . |
| 19 | Thus to bring to all our attention how much it matters for the encouragement of arts , commerce and trade which er , for manufacturers which is the full title of the Royal Society of Arts . |
| 20 | It is easy to blame the pressure of daily life and the stress it causes for the fact that we do not feel as well as we should like — and , indeed , in many cases an excess of stress and tension may be the cause . |
| 21 | This series of squares is disquieting as it heads for the horizon unless it allows for the curvature of the Earth . |
| 22 | This is fairer as it allows for the fact that fewer overs remain in which the chasing team can attack , but does not set a rate out of proportion with the course of the match up to the time of the stoppage . |
| 23 | It allows for the development of skills appropriate to each study area and gives teachers the opportunity to explore the specific approaches which are appropriate to particular subject disciplines . |
| 24 | Power is the capacity to affect other people 's behaviour with or without their consent ; it allows for the deployment of resources to achieve ends . |
| 25 | AimTrak is an ideal management information and reconciliation system for group companies , as it allows for the aggregation of funds from different member companies and provides a consolidated group figure , thus minimising individual bank charges . |
| 26 | It allows for the user to create groups of numbers to send any given document to — for broadcasting faxes , where the same fax is sent to lots of different places , a task that can take forever with traditional fax machines . |
| 27 | Instead it allows for the discovery of both marginal gainers and losers . |
| 28 | This exception is directed at rationalizing the British Leyland case and it allows for the fact that persons who buy items of equipment may need replacement parts in time and should be able to obtain spare parts in a free market at reasonable cost . |
| 29 | Besides attesting to the now well supported view that de Man suffered from a kind of multiple personality disorder , the effect is astounding , since it allows for the formulation of key linguistic tenets upon which the radical reputation of deconstruction rests without de Man taking personal responsibility for that formulation . |
| 30 | Under the old two group format it was very much down to luck as to who you were drawn with , the new system is much better , it allows for the odd hiccup , gives an extra dimension to every game and rewards those teams that perform on the day . |