Example sentences of "a [noun] for it [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe this song will catch on , but I think Deano needs to buck up a bit for it to get sung some more . |
| 2 | It was a biting cold that almost turned the pleasure of the riding into a chore , or a want for it to end . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In 1971 the CNAA gave evidence to the James Committee expressing its willingness to take on the validation of the Teachers Certificate if there was a need for it to do so . |
| 5 | It took a moment for it to penetrate ; he was talking about his rejection by the Irish comrades . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | Through the 1930s and 1940s the habit quickly spread through Britain , at far too fast a rate for it to have taken place by the natural selection of Mendelian genes ( Figure 3.12 ) . |
| 8 | I think we 've got a use for it to demonstrate that we , merely to demonstrate we had it er , at least er , on , in March the twenty , what ever it is . |
| 9 | In yourself you 've got to be very clear about where you 're going and what you 're doing before you start to do it , in a sense for it to happen . |
| 10 | That it ought to interfere and regulate or even suppress these autonomous , self-creating , voluntary associations is a matter for it to prove : it is not assumed … |
| 11 | Nevertheless , it seems reasonable to assume that the specific nature of the object , and in particular its physical presence , will result in a tendency for it to act in certain distinctive ways , compared with other media of cultural expression . |
| 12 | There is a tendency for it to sound scrappy and undernourished , and intonation is variable , too . |
| 13 | As there was a tendency for it to rain outside this gift idea was doubly welcome ! |
| 14 | There is a tendency for it to run in families . ’ |