Example sentences of "it [vb -s] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It equips for battle |
| 2 | If " father " today means for many people a non-existent person , a drunkard , someone unkind or hateful , or if it denotes for others an exclusion of women , then it needs to be appropriately translated in different terms . |
| 3 | Standalone it goes for $1,000 and $1,300 respectively . |
| 4 | If the sergeant got there before you and did n't find you , he would tap with his signalling stick and it goes for miles in the middle of the night — give him a little tinkle , and you walk towards one another . |
| 5 | A big attraction of the West Country for many second home owners is the opportunity it offers for waterside living . |
| 6 | What makes the new round of work potentially so profitable is the scope it offers for experiment . |
| 7 | Our general topic of discussion is perceptual consciousness and the problem that it constitutes for physicalism . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If the nature of the risk is displayed as in Figure 6.10 , corporate management is explicitly given the data it needs for evaluation . |
| 10 | If the nature of the risk is displayed as in Figure 6.10 , corporate management is explicitly given the data it needs for evaluation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But the big day is today(thurs) , not Saturday , because that 's when the men from Greenwich Council come to see if they can give the £4 million redeveloped ground the safety certificate it needs for Saturday 's sell-out game to proceed . |
| 13 | You know B J , it stands for blow job right . |
| 14 | It stands for Gamer 's Own Design . |
| 15 | It stands for Rest , Ice , Compression and Elevation . |
| 16 | But those who believe in the monarchy like to think it stands for stability and good example . |
| 17 | It stands for allo allo allo . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It stands for Local Exchange Trading System , and it 's a way of overcoming your lack of money without the incompatibilities of barter . |
| 20 | ‘ I think it stands for Shadow Scheme , ’ says Pamela . |
| 21 | ‘ The four As , sometimes they just put figure 4 and capital A. It stands for Action Against Animal Abuse . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The earlier she was killed , the better it looks for Willard because he was in college till gone five , right ? ’ |
| 24 | Sun Microsystems Inc has an OEM contract from Fanuc Ltd which it estimates at $10m a year : the Japanese robotics and factory automation company plans to create turnkey systems out of the workstations by bundling them with computer-aided design software from Cadkey Inc and sell them worldwide ; it looks for $330m in business over three years . |
| 25 | It looks for recovery on the back on a new pocket computer out next week . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Making it clear that short-termism is not an affliction from which Siemens AG suffers , the company says that it expects its loss-making semiconductor division to show a profit in the 1995-96 business year , which starts October 1 1995 : it looks for sales of some $2,000m that year , compared with about $1,187m last fiscal year ; the company aims to achieve profitability via tight cost control , strategic cooperation with other companies and the moving of labour-intensive activities to south-east Asia ; the division 's workforce will be just under 12,000 in 1995-96 compared with some 13,200 at present . |
| 28 | Even so , the significance it has for Hobbes is nothing like that which it had for Bacon . |
| 29 | The Pill has probably been even more liberating for men than it has for women , as men have to worry even less about contraception than they did before . |
| 30 | 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 . |