Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They left his body lying where it fell for three days , as a warning to the other prisoners . |
| 2 | The grass is either permanent or it remains for several years as a long ley . |
| 3 | The agreement endorsed the principle of " self-sufficiency " , which stipulated that waste should be treated or disposed of as close as possible to the point of production , although it provided for some flexibility in the case of smaller countries . |
| 4 | The particular focus which I find valuable is the concept of the ‘ life course ’ , which is different from the more orthodox conception of the ‘ life cycle ’ and ‘ family life cycle ’ , in that it allows for more variation and does not assume that family relationships go through a series of modifications which are totally predictable in advance . |
| 5 | One of the important characteristics of those moves was the support that it represented for British liberalisation policies . |
| 6 | We had nothing at all to live on ; but one day I received a sum of money that we managed to divide up so that it lasted for many weeks , just so much a day . |
| 7 | The swan became so attached to Sam that it stayed for twelve years . |
| 8 | By far the most popular location in recent years has been the Netherlands , for the very good reason that it has for some time offered by far the best deal . |
| 9 | By 1820 , it was owned and worked by Robert Wight , who continued to manufacture cloth there , the mill becoming known as Wights Mill , a name that it retained for many years . |
| 10 | The only good thing about it is that it lasts for six months , then immunity is acquired . ’ |
| 11 | As for Freud , the clitoris continues to be surrounded by the same problems that it held for nineteenth-century medicine . |
| 12 | The good news is that it works for all ages . |
| 13 | But of course the thing about it is that it works for any shape . |
| 14 | If so , the fact that a dependence thesis is true of theoretical authorities is strong evidence to suppose that it holds for practical authorities as well . |
| 15 | Under Resolution No.6 to be put forward at the AGM the directors propose that the authority should be extended so that it applies for five years from the date of this year 's AGM . |
| 16 | Until the middle of the nineteenth century the whole of this load , equivalent to the weight of many railway trains , had to be carried by hemp ropes which were always shrinking and swelling , rotting and stretching so that it called for great skill to avoid the loss of some or all of the masts and spars . |
| 17 | Fujitsu will hand over the goods from houses in Darlington that it used for Japanese staff while the new factory was being built and equipped . |
| 18 | There was another feature of the legislation , in that it provided for new ways of involving the public in plan preparation . |
| 19 | Choosing the most appropriate things to eat and in the case of man the most effective materials for tools and weapons is adaptive in the sense that it makes for biological survival : organisms which practise the keenest discrimination flourish at the expense of those less discriminating in their choices . |
| 20 | It is now clear that the presence of the wall causes the fluid viscosity to enter in a much more important way into the dynamics of turbulent motion than it does for free flows . |
| 21 | But within this context , Wilkins ' elegant stuccoed facades will be retained , and an important landmark has been saved and will look far more handsome and dignified than it has for many years . |
| 22 | While much of the UK is looking gloomily at the dark clouds of a major recession , it seems poetic justice that for at least some of Belfast 's population , the future looks better than it has for many years . |
| 23 | The outcome of these changes is that the drug bill is rising faster than it has for some years and above the rate of inflation . |
| 24 | All that postmodernism has been able to do is signal the demise and loss of all we have held dear , and it remains for another generation of artists to pull us out of the mire . |
| 25 | Cos I 've still got a bit of a throat and it said for sore throats too if you want . |
| 26 | Amongst over 20 year olds the share of temporary workers is below the average , and it falls for each age group until the pensionable age is reached . |
| 27 | And it works for several reasons : |
| 28 | The twentieth century has seen the growth of a considerable literature on management as an acquired skill and it has for some time been possible to obtain academic management qualifications . |
| 29 | This way of working is often frustrating for me , of course , and it makes for economic inefficiency . |
| 30 | This is Bennett 's story and it makes for fascinating reading . |