Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not least important is the constructive alternative it offers for alienated youth . |
| 2 | However , middle class observers were sensitive to the possibility that the working class husband might not provide ; after all , the bourgeois family model was favoured because of the work incentive it provided for working class men , which presupposed that such an incentive was necessary . |
| 3 | ACCIDENT & General has confirmed that the rate it quoted for last week 's travel insurance table which appeared on page 23 of the Money-Go-Round section of the newspaper should have been £17.90 for a two-week holiday in Europe rather than £14.70 . |
| 4 | For a week it rained for several hours each day . |
| 5 | Bembridge School takes the view that the collection no longer has any educational value , and that it needs the space it occupies for other purposes . |
| 6 | I think that is a , there is a need to look into this , it is an area where we have n't looked into at the moment , and when you consider the valuable work that our staff in the D S O organisation does , and the profit it makes for this county council , and the savings it makes for the county council , it would be sensible for us to also look into building maintenance as well . |
| 7 | And the way that the Government has reduced the provision it makes for higher education erm is that it is has so far erm kept us with the same amount of resources while expecting us to take more students . |
| 8 | The National Children 's Home wants the government to re-think the provision it makes for young people , increasing benefits for those on training courses and setting up grants for those leaving care . |
| 9 | This afternoon it poured for two hours solid . |
| 10 | The Report itself is , as it says , largely a description of the present situation ; its value is therefore the opportunity it offers for new proposals to come forward . |
| 11 | The key advantage of membership of HIAN is the opportunity it provides for international networking . |
| 12 | The key advantage of membership of HIAN is the opportunity it provides for international networking . |
| 13 | To such an end it had for some time been seeking to intensify contacts with both Tehran and Baghdad . |
| 14 | Sweden is currently off the Richter price scale for British clients but Norway , euphoric at winning the 1994 Olympics for Lillehammer , is determined to regain the reputation it had for alpine skiing thirty years ago , when the annual quota of British skiers was 15,000 ; today it is 1,500 , but that will change when the tour operators can be induced to include Norwegian destinations in their programmes . |
| 15 | In other words , in the time it takes for one murder on the crime clock , six workers have died ‘ just trying to make a living ’ ! ’ |
| 16 | Furthermore , the time it takes for military expenditure to result in an operational arms system can be anything between ten or twenty years . |
| 17 | Pulling them together , we may see that in marriage in Britain today , while freedom of choice makes for great potential satisfaction in the marital relationship as such , at the same time it makes for some instability if the satisfactions are not up to expectations . |