Example sentences of "it [vb past] for an " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It provided for an estimated expenditure of L£597,000 million and revenues of L£210,000 million . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It called for an end to the Arab boycott of Israel , and for Israel to end the " policy of settlement in the Occupied Territories " . |
| 8 | 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 " . |
| 9 | It called for an investigation of the charges by a " neutral international investigation committee " or the International Court of Justice . |
| 10 | It called for an end to our tradition of holding an annual conference . |
| 11 | David is concerned at the length of time he says it took for an ambulance to arrive . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |