Example sentences of "for it [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The longer that the muon sticks to the helium , the less time is left for it to catalyse further fusions . |
| 2 | For it to do this , it must have some long-term effect . |
| 3 | There is a tendency for it to sound scrappy and undernourished , and intonation is variable , too . |
| 4 | At one time , estate agents were entering sufficient lots for it to hold 100 sales a year in the City or in the New Connaught Rooms . |
| 5 | There was no need for it to re-cover old ground . |
| 6 | Bob Collicutt acknowledges that he is presiding over a mature , commodity business with limited growth opportunities , but sees the free-standing role as an opportunity for it to remain profitable in the longer term . |
| 7 | As a result , an alumina implant can shield the surrounding bone from the stresses generated by normal activity , and the bone loses the stimulation which is necessary for it to remain healthy . |
| 8 | In order for it to remain competitive , jobs had to be shed . |
| 9 | It was this loco that regularly worked the 17.09 two coach local from Chesterfield to Sheffield in 1962 , and after school it was customary to go down to the station and wait for it to arrive light engine . |
| 10 | In January 1989 the human rights organization Amnesty International urged the government to investigate numerous killings of trade union leaders and called for it to take immediate action over the suspected participation of police and members of the judiciary in harassment of and death threats against peasant leaders . |
| 11 | ‘ We could n't afford for it to go wrong . |
| 12 | I felt my face go red , as red as it was physically possible for it to go red , and a surge of hate and rage and fear swept through me from nerve ending to brain cell to nerve ending . |
| 13 | However , the company 's spec calls for it to support six to eight P5s which it says should be capable of 250 transactions a second . |
| 14 | Having pledged its support for the environment and the poor , there is mounting pressure for it to institutionalize some safeguards . |
| 15 | The educative process has to begin sufficiently early in a person 's life for it to have any real effect on attitudes , and I believe the challenge has to have the response of both parents and schools . |
| 16 | Moreover , whatever the course adopted , it would have to receive the blessing of Germany 's traditional enemy , France , for it to have any chance of success . |
| 17 | Been waiting for it to get better every week and it |
| 18 | Catching on to the coat tails of the downsizing rush just in time , CA said that it was surprised by the demands from its users for it to develop migratory and Unix-based applications — a far cry it admits from its traditional stronghold in the mainframe market . |
| 19 | This underscores the need for it to provide more than musical training for its members . |
| 20 | Genette speaks of this change in emphasis as a restoration of equilibrium in literary studies : ‘ Literature had long enough been regarded as a message without a code for it to become necessary to regard it for a time as a code without a message ( 1982 : 7 ) . |
| 21 | We were n't enclosed long enough for it to become worrying and I got a real adrenaline rush when at one point one side of the passage was replaced by empty space leading to a huge open chamber . |
| 22 | Some European legislation , e.g. directives , requires further legislative or administrative action by the authorities of member states for it to become effective . |
| 23 | However , it seems plausible that this source of energy has been of little importance in the past because Jupiter is so very massive that it probably formed very hot , though Jupiter may now be sufficiently cool for helium separation to have recently become significant , or for it to become significant in the relatively near future . |
| 24 | In fact , mahogany had been known in England since Sir Walter Raleigh 's day but it took the French ban for it to become popular . |
| 25 | The tale he told journalist Gerard Garrett was that Brando would n't hit him hard enough in a scene for it to look real . |
| 26 | It was a stupid thing to have done ; I 'd moved my head far too quickly for it to look natural , and the buck shot off up the bank . |
| 27 | The only way for it to look any different is for Michael to learn the bloody lines . |
| 28 | Jumping spiders , on the other hand , stalk their prey or perhaps stay hidden and wait for it to pass close by . |
| 29 | Because the government abandoned any formal incomes policy there was less call for it to maintain close relations with union leaders . |
| 30 | By contrast , the norm for curriculum change is for it to occur piecemeal and gradually over long periods . |