Example sentences of "it for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can claim other defences as well : for example , if you need the blade or point for work , or if it is necessary to carry it for religious reasons or as part of any national costume . |
| 2 | Muslims and Jews want to get rid of it for religious reasons ; Americans want ( wanted ? ) to get rid of it for hygienic reasons and for the hypothetical reduced risk of penile cancer in the circumcised population ; Latins love to play with it , like to keep it , and are taught to mobilise it often ; the British would like to ignore it , not to touch it , and eventually get rid of it when it causes too much trouble . |
| 3 | I want to write it for live musicians of both sexes . |
| 4 | Where in previous years these vessels had been purely large fishing vessels loading salted fish into barrels for immediate export to their own ports , now there came great numbers of large factory ships and modern trawlers which could process fish , package it and freeze it for indefinite periods . |
| 5 | It was decided that until the camp arrived Lady Rathcreedan could use it for grazing cattle . |
| 6 | Most people joined it for humanitarian reasons but it was an outlet for all kinds of disgust . |
| 7 | The more effort that has to be put into these component skills , the less processing space there is for monitoring the procedure — i.e. , taking the message as a cognitive object and scrutinizing it for possible inconsistencies . |
| 8 | Gandhi indeed could count on the British conscience for his personal safety , but he could never count on it for political concessions — and it is clear that at some level he understood this . |
| 9 | All that was needed was for someone to take Rowland 's ascetic vision/version of soul fanaticism and commandeer it for political ends . |
| 10 | ‘ Of course , this villa has no right to be here , ’ Nigel told them , ‘ but since it is we must save it for future generations to enjoy . ’ |
| 11 | If , like me , you love the country , maybe one way you can help preserve it for future generations is to stay away from it . |
| 12 | Our commitment to improving the environment and helping to maintain it for future generations can be summarised by these ‘ Green Rules ’ |
| 13 | Welcome back : Our countryside is disappearing at an alarming rate and urgent action is needed to protect it for future generations . |
| 14 | ‘ The fishery has been here for over 400 years , so we want to make sure we maintain it for future generations , ’ said Mr Horne . |
| 15 | Then the trustees have to decide whether to distribute it or not ; keep it for future expenses and things like that . |
| 16 | Of course it was not certain either that Zoser had done it or that , if he had done it , he had done it for sectarian reasons . |
| 17 | This has led to researchers making a distinction between central and peripheral information in a scene and the assumption that arousal will impair memory for peripheral details but improve it for central ones ( see particularly Christianson , in press ) . |
| 18 | Since no more is claimed for the incapacitation effect on conventional criminals , it appears reasonable to recommend it for offending corporations . |
| 19 | I used it for New Blues and almost all of Summer Song and perhaps the solo on Rubina 's Blue Sky Happiness . |
| 20 | It is a quite deliberate attempt to depaganise the site by someone who wished to use it for other functions . |
| 21 | Well that depends on whether you are actually doing it during an audit or doing it for other reasons , what they are looking for is that your system is getting better and that you have done the right things . |
| 22 | He must need to know it for other reasons . |
| 23 | Bartering enables them to swap it for other things they need without paying . |
| 24 | an old tank yeah , so that they can save the water and use it for other things . |
| 25 | She has since packed it for other tours . |
| 26 | Remortgaging unlocks this capital , allowing you to use it for other purposes . |
| 27 | Furthermore they know that they can trust him because he will not filch money from the common agricultural policy , as Labour would do , to use it for other purposes . |
| 28 | As Jim Perrin almost explained in his highly perceptive and barely obscure September piece , today 's rock climber does it for extrinsic reasons , creating a gulf between that activity and the intrinsic moves of the other mountain activities . |
| 29 | " There 's a regulation about using it for private matters . " |
| 30 | ‘ We 've been doing M&A for years but do n't have the same profile as others because we do it for private clients who just want to sell a company or buy one . ’ |