Example sentences of "of it for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , government-funded research now runs into several millions of pounds a year , most of it for matters related to social policy . |
| 2 | We were so broke when we were living there that I 'd buy a bar of Kit Kat in the morning , have two fingers of it for breakfast and the other two for dinner in the evening . |
| 3 | When a tape is full , make a duplicate of it for storage elsewhere . |
| 4 | And so I took with I say with her blessing , took a er a picture of it for posterity . |
| 5 | Perhaps the Minister could clarify the impression given by the Hon. Member for Tayside , North ( Mr. Walker ) , who believes that it is all right to buy from the public purse something for £2 million and then to sell off a fraction of it for £4 1 million a fortnight later as long as the proceeds of the sale go to buses . |
| 6 | I will say in moving that , would I note that the property services , the property sub- committee I should say , is receiving a further report on recommendations on how to preserve the long-term viability of the estate , which I consider to be the right priority , erm , the long- term viability of the estate is essential for the value both as an estate and for the value of it er , to us should we need to dispose of any of it for development land in the future . |
| 7 | Mr Devall said if the nitrate removal plant house was built it would take water from the Stour , remove nitrates from part of it for drinking water in Essex and return the rest into the Stour . |
| 8 | A photographer takes pictures , and the whole thing is tape-recorded ( just as practically everything we say is tape-recorded ) so that the students can make use of it for interpretation or translation practice later on . |
| 9 | When they did make extensive use of it for coinage , however , the high zinc and low iron content of the coins indicates that they must have used metallic zinc rather than cementation . |
| 10 | When he asks to be given some of the soup , Jacob seizes the opportunity , and exchanges a bowl of it for Esau 's privileges as the firstborn . |
| 11 | You might , you might get a little something out of it for Michael |
| 12 | OAG members examined the dumped waste , suspecting that Raybestos was dumping asbestos waste there while being prevented from dumping in Ringaskiddy , and sent some of it for analysis to London . |
| 13 | Several notable criminals , e.g. Jonathan Wild ( 1682 ? -1725 ) , and many refugees from the French Revolution were buried in its graveyard , which perhaps prompted CD 's choice of it for Cly 's mock-funeral in Tale of Two Cities ( ii 14 ; iii 8 ) . |
| 14 | … We depend on the media for our life-blood , the stream of information , the adventures , the violence , the romance , … the eternal commentary that lines our lives like a loving companion , a double , making sense of it for us. ( 30–1 ) |
| 15 | I 've been tired of it for years … |
| 16 | I do n't suppose anything else out of the ordinary has happened there for about five hundred years , so the local people should be full of it for weeks . ’ |
| 17 | If we can manage to get the tree-house finished by tomorrow , I 'll show you a way we can give him a piece of it for Father 's Day . ’ |
| 18 | Others made use of it for axe or adze blades , among them the Indians of Amazonia , the Haida of Queen Charlotte Island , British Columbia , and the Eskimos of the Kobuk river , Alaska . |
| 19 | The Vietnamese , who have kept a few items of sunken treasure for a museum in Hanoi , but sent most of it for auction in the West , pronounced themselves well satisfied . |
| 20 | The camera was placed at 1.0m from a masked wall , and subjects were fixed to this wall in the case of cards , immediately in front of it for plants . |
| 21 | Two days later , on 29 September , the Feast of St Michael and All Angels , Balboa and his men arrived on the shores of the great sea , to take possession of it for God and for Castile . |
| 22 | The works , which have just started , will cost £191,000 and involve making the early-Victorian listed building wind and water tight and restoring part of it for use by the Brechin Railway Preservation Society . |