Example sentences of "it [verb] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It mistook excuses for reasons . |
| 2 | It destroys hope for a better life . |
| 3 | It amused Luke for a moment , but then a merciless glint appeared in his eyes . |
| 4 | From the car park it goes east for around a mile and a half before going south-west to the Water of Trool . |
| 5 | It says it faces problems because it receives money for average rather than actual salaries . |
| 6 | But the commission wants it to include recipes for worker participation , an idea tried in the rejected Vredeling proposal of the early 1980s . |
| 7 | Yesterday it announced figures for the first half of 1989 so late in the day that the London market had mostly packed up and gone home by the time the screens showed that profits had risen from Ir £109m to Ir £121m and earnings were up from 21.7p to 25.4p basic . |
| 8 | NEWARTHILL , the McAlpine family 's private construction group yesterday joined the sector 's casualties when it announced losses for 1991 totalling £72.2m . |
| 9 | Would it make sense for city authorities to restrict commuter parking in cities during the day ? |
| 10 | Would it make sense for these activities to be provided by the private sector in the same way as haircuts and cars ? |
| 11 | The EFA should therefore be a prime target for spending cuts , but at the same time , does n't it make sense for the Government to ‘ bite the bullet ’ on another contentious issue , viz. the future of the Rosyth dockyard ? |
| 12 | Absolutely , does it make sense for , for husband and wife over there to wait for the second one to have a heart attack , or the second one to have a cancer before it pays out , |
| 13 | What procedure would it make sense for something like that to go in though ? |
| 14 | It offers shops for everyday needs and is ideal for visits to the famed sights of Tuscany . |
| 15 | The Japanese company 's Bluebird model , the first to be built at its Sunderland factory , never rated : dealers thought it lacked pzazz for executives . |
| 16 | To tell the truth I have only hazy memories of the magazine that I took for a long time and until it ceased publication for reasons that were beyond me . |
| 17 | It produced forecasts for various markets , and said those showed some were clearly earmarked for success in the future while others should be taken on only by those with a ‘ real taste for a challenge ’ . |
| 18 | It produces adverts for TV , newspapers and quality magazines , and it uses the same initial filming for all three . |
| 19 | If he was more successful than me , I could say it made sense for me to give up my career . ’ |
| 20 | As a major ‘ consumer ’ of overhauled piston engines for its own fleet , it made sense for the Atlantic Group to extend their activities to engine overhaul . |
| 21 | For fathers in say , metalworking or joinery , there was no chance at all of their daughters following in their footsteps , but it made sense for them to seize the chance offered by the printing trade . |
| 22 | It would have surprised Claudia if Dana did have any money ; she earned a great deal but spent it as fast as she made it , and , while it made sense for Roman to bring her under his wing , Claudia resented it fiercely . |
| 23 | Thus , given that there might come a time when forces were available for deployment in the Middle East , it made sense for American diplomats to encourage what friends and allies they could to hold the line in the interval . |
| 24 | Under the astute leadership of its general secretary , Bruce Kent , it made room for the various local and single-issue groups that were mushrooming around the country . |
| 25 | It involved support for international economic expansion promoted by the USA and for agreements between European governments in reviving trade , particularly with countries of the Eastern hemisphere . |
| 26 | It arouses sympathy for him from us . |
| 27 | Lloyds Bank , which was the first to impose a levy , lost the most customers when it charged £12 for the privilege of owning its card . |
| 28 | There the exemption clause , according to its wording limited the liability of some seed merchants ( for supplying defective seed ) to the cost of replacing the seed ; it excluded liability for consequential loss of the buyers ' crop . |
| 29 | It was not thickly populated or well defended , but it was much larger than the islands the English already held in the Caribbean , so it provided land for English emigrants for some years . |
| 30 | Built around the village of Nurburg , it provided work for some of Germany 's unemployed in the 1920s and was finished in 1927 . |