Example sentences of "it [be] [verb] for some [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The rights and wrongs of it were debated for some time and the feeling seemed to be that the TCCB had come out of it in a worse light than Gatting ; as the Melbourne newspaper The Age put it , ‘ Gatting , caught rumour , bowled hypocrisy , 0 ’ .
2 It implies for example , it was created for some kind of purpose .
3 The University denied it was hoping for some form of financial benefit from the visit .
4 And even if a structural , timber can be dated , there is always the possibility that it was stored for some time between being felled and being used , or even that it was re-used timber salvaged from an earlier building .
5 The market might be held several days a week , and if , like the great Cotswold wood marts at Cirencester , Tetbury and so forth , it was noted for some speciality , business might be attracted from well outside the five-mile radius considered reasonable for day-to-day requirements in the Middle Ages .
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