Example sentences of "it for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Hm yes it 's better is n't it for the extra |
| 32 | If a secured creditor omits to disclose his security in his proof of debt , he must surrender it for the general benefit of creditors unless the court relieves him on the ground that omission was inadvertent or the result of honest mistake ( r 6.116 ) . |
| 33 | ‘ … I 'll do it for the Young Farmers sometime . ’ |
| 34 | One man who took early retirement at 61 thought , at the time , that the advantage of early retirement was ‘ The fact that there are so many young people out of work and I thought I 'd done a lifetime 's work and might as well leave it for the young ones . ’ |
| 35 | He wrote it for the young men who were dying in the war , but the words may offer a little comfort . |
| 36 | So , as our planet moves on its yearly orbit around the sun , the northern hemisphere is angled towards the sun for part of the year , and the southern hemisphere is tilted towards it for the other part . |
| 37 | and very importantly is er , a list of instructions on how to use it , in order to erm , update it for the current month . |
| 38 | For example , an investor could buy a ten-year bond , hold it for one year and receive the coupon , and then sell it for the current price of a nine-year bond with the same coupon . |
| 39 | In particular , he suggests that the educational system has a marked effect on the production and reproduction of scientific knowledge , and criticizes it for the ahistorical way in which it teaches scientific problems , theories , experiments and proofs . |
| 40 | They won it for the outstanding service that they had given two clients , Comfort Cooling and PSA . |
| 41 | We thought it was so good that we 'd do it for the old people 's home . |
| 42 | The answer to that question , and the implications of it for the British polity of the 1980s , will form the basis of the final chapter . |
| 43 | It is said that there is a spell within the music , and that they always spin it for the true heir , and that it protects that heir throughout his life . |
| 44 | Presumably , therefore , a House of Commons bent on pressing a Bill to extend the life of Parliament could do so by first abolishing the House of Lords under the Parliament Act procedure and then passing the Bill and presenting it for the Royal Assent . |
| 45 | THE Labour Party 's land policy paper , Planning a New Agenda , has been called partially flawed by Christopher Jonas replying to it for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors . |
| 46 | ‘ Maybe they buy it for the wrong reason ; they can get a lot of research they would otherwise not carry out . |
| 47 | ‘ Maybe they buy it for the wrong reason ; they can get a lot of research they would otherwise not carry out . |
| 48 | And life 's too short to miss out on the chance of it for the wrong kinds of reasons . ’ |
| 49 | Nuisances and abominations of all sorts are without scruple committed to the streets at any hour of the day of night , to await the morning visit of the scavenger to remove them : and happy indeed is it for the humble pedestrian if his eye and nose alone suffer from these ejectments ; happy indeed if he comes not in contact with them , as they make their unceremonious exit from window or door … |
| 50 | Our Airbus unloading ( or leading ) 300 souls creates a weekly chaotic scrum ; it 's all worth it for the short onward journey to resort . |
| 51 | Were you to feel particularly extravagant you could have the room-facing side mirrored — worth it for the wonderful effect of light and space . |
| 52 | This means that you can perform operations on it , such as scanning it for the particular information you want . |
| 53 | If the Government can do it for the Bosnians , why ca n't they do it for the homeless ? |
| 54 | I thought about it for the prescribed two days , chanting , ‘ How do I get her to sign the form ? — How do I get her to sign the form ? ’ , then switched on the wireless in the middle of a biblical play about Moses and God 's voice boomed out of the speakers : |
| 55 | He had resolved to keep it for the whole year , egged on by his father , who had promised him a new bicycle if he succeeded . |
| 56 | As the organisers could n't find any reason to suppress it or reject it , they dumped the piece behind screens where it could no longer be seen and we lost sight of it for the whole exhibition . |
| 57 | we do n't want to give em it for the whole year . |
| 58 | I used to help with sticking the the er money onto the well this used to take about , you know , an hour all these kids did n't know what two pence was , did n't know what twenty pence was and ten pence and fifty pence and then we , they were in go about groups of seven and we get all this done then it would be assembly , then it 'll be games and then that 'll be it for the whole morning ! |
| 59 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 60 | Kenneth Anderson , 53 , of Northumbria Walk , West Denton , Newcastle , who was jailed in 1989 for an armed robbery at a council housing office in Newcastle 's Denton Park , mistaking it for the adjoining post office , had his 12-year-prison sentence upheld by the Criminal Appeal Court in London yesterday . |