Example sentences of "it for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why does n't it have a mark on it for absolute brass monkeys ? |
| 2 | Gasp as you find there 's one near you — no other computer event can match it for geographical diversity . |
| 3 | Although major developments in the ecosystem were largely external to biogeography until the 1960s , Stoddart ( 1967b , p. 524 ) argued that the ecosystem concept has four main properties which commend it for geographical investigation . |
| 4 | They can ship it , National Power can ship it half way across the world and get it for eighteen pound a ton . |
| 5 | I frequently perform funerals three deep : that is , I do it for one person , who does it for another , who does it for the relatives of the deceased , he being the first person applied to . |
| 6 | People paid 25 roubles to have it for one night . |
| 7 | They were allowed to see it for one hour , before it was taken back , and none of them has been able to get hold of it since . |
| 8 | Is it for one driver or any driver ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Suppose also that an investor intends to buy the share , hold it for one year and then sell it at the end of the year . |
| 11 | I wore it for one year and that |
| 12 | Which is what I meant to erm tt get on to Chris from the press office B B C Well I 'll give him a bell and just organize it for one day . |
| 13 | Scrap it for one day . |
| 14 | I do know that I 'm not going to put up with it for one minute longer , though . |
| 15 | I do n't believe it for one minute , personally , but this is the , this is the theory , and I 'll explain why I do n't believe it , later . |
| 16 | We 've just been going on timing it for one minute or something . |
| 17 | They wo n't wear it for one minute when I tell them the whole story . ’ |
| 18 | I can do it for one minute twenty seconds . |
| 19 | Take your eyes off it for one second and … something frightful might happen . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't think I really believed it for one second . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm glad to hear that , ’ Claudia said , not believing it for one moment . |
| 22 | I mean we all live in a society where people wear clothes and we 'd probably feel a bit ashamed if we did n't have to wear any , but if you grew up in a society where nobody wears clothes , you would n't , would n't bother about it for one moment . |
| 23 | Black-leaved ilexes grew in the churchyard and a brassy laburnum had flowers on it for one week out of the year . |
| 24 | UN relief flights to Juba — known as " Operation Lifeline Sudan " — were halted temporarily on July 21 , after Sudanese government troops had boarded a UN plane and used it for one week to transport troops and military equipment . |
| 25 | Mr McEd was acting pretty cagey about it for one thing and , when pressed , would only come up with the reassuring phrases : ‘ Every cloud has a silver lining Ed … ’ or ‘ Do n't worry son , you father 's not such an old fool as he looks … |
| 26 | You must tackle a warren as though you intend to do a good job at it ; there 's precious little point or pleasure in dabbling with it for that way you achieve very little . |
| 27 | My grandfather saying that everything was going downhill , my grandmother talking of progress , but neither expecting it for that year or the next , they did n't dream of real change , not in their lifetime nor their children 's . |
| 28 | ‘ No , absolutely not , though people can take information from it and use it for that purpose if they 're so minded . |
| 29 | ‘ I did not bring it for that purpose , ’ said Andrus hoarsely . |
| 30 | it 's right soft carpet , it does n't , there not be a lot of wool in it for that money , you know what I mean |