Example sentences of "it [be] [verb] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this is not accepted widely among the medical profession , there are many reports of it being used successfully for the treatment of hyperactive children . |
| 2 | In the afternoon the weather is really hot , the way it always is when you go back to school , after it 's rained non-stop for the summer holidays . |
| 3 | The word ‘ rétroversion ’ can be understood etymologically as ‘ turning back ’ , yet in modern usage it is reserved exclusively for the turning or tipping of organs , especially of the uterus . |
| 4 | By section 5 of the 1987 Act , the liability covered by Part I of the Act extends to : a ) death or personal injury , b ) damage to or destruction of any item of property ( including land ) other than the defective product itself ( there is a lower threshold of £275 before a claim can be made ) provided that the property ; i ) is the type normally intended for private use and consumption , and ii ) it is used mainly for the private use or consumption of the person claiming . |
| 5 | There is , however , the difference that in those cases the control is used to investigate the first instability whereas here it is needed only for the later stages . |
| 6 | Gandhi has no aversion to sex and refers to it as ‘ a fine and noble thing ’ , but he insists that ‘ it is meant only for the act of creation ’ . |
| 7 | When Checkland 's contract came up for renewal , it was renewed only for a token year . |
| 8 | Aha that was just went in It was all blown to the side and that was it was kept just for the for the carol beasts for the sheds you see , for the that was what the what we saw what they bedded them down with that . |
| 9 | It was exchanged later for a black Old English sheepdog owned by some relatives of ours at Piercebridge . |
| 10 | It was developed specifically for the larger urban workshops and consists of an adjustable loom with a device which , by altering the tension on the warp strands , shifts the completed work to the rear of the loom , allowing the weaver to sit at the same level throughout the entire rug-making process . |
| 11 | By now , it was raining enough for the covers to go on over at Wimbledon . |
| 12 | When d'Argenlieu dispatched himself hastily to Paris a few days after the French elections and before the Haiphong incident , it was to lobby intensively for a policy of firmness ; and his tactic , says Devillers , was simple : to create fear . |
| 13 | Perhaps it is seeking to increase the audience , or perhaps it was lead astray for a while by the fact that , during the Conservative leadership contest , the exciting politics at Westminster were not in the Chamber . |
| 14 | Here again I respectfully agree with the observations made by Lord Donaldson M.R. , at pp. 324–325 , and by Neill L.J. , at pp. 326–327 , when rejecting the proprietary argument , which had not been advanced before Wright J. but which had rightly to be considered when it was put forward for the first time in the Court of Appeal . |
| 15 | If the war was n't actually forgotten , it was put aside for a few days in the district around Screehaugh . |
| 16 | Three years ago , it would have easily surpassed its $50–80,000 estimate but there was not a bid in the room , and it was sold afterward for a paltry $25,000 ( £17,850 ) . |
| 17 | An addition to Rotterdam 's World Trade Center was built in 1986–87 and one part of it was set aside for a V.I.P. entertainment suite . |