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

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1 In a healthy democracy the discussions of the representative assembly will as it were act as chairman for the multifarious informal discussion of the nation as a whole , and the measure of the successful working of democracy is the extent to which the voting of the ordinary man and woman has been informed by this widely diffused public discussion .
2 it 's raining in time for us to go to school , come on
3 Deborah did actually say to me , she thought that Harrogate might feel I think it 's to do with priorities for the
4 It 's priced at $6,000 for a single user .
5 It 's led to calls for immediate action to protect workers'interests .
6 And it 's looking at proposals for a permanent archaeology museum .
7 And it 's looking at proposals for a permanent archaeology museum .
8 No , it talks about the life as it 's lying in store for instance .
9 It is priced at £1,570 for a 16-user licence on CD-ROM to £2,280 for up to 512 users on 3.5' disks .
10 It is priced at £1,570 for a 16 user licence on CD-ROM to £2,280 for up to 512 users on 3.5' disks .
11 It is recorded in analyses for gold from Stronchullin , Strathclyde ( Peach and others , 1911 ) and is associated with lead in a small mine near Conwy , North Wales ( Bevins and others , 1988 ) .
12 Finally it is stored in casks for a time which varies according to the final requirements , since pale and bitter ales take longer to mature than mild ales .
13 It is run by musicians for the benefit of musicians .
14 If his estate is not in possession , e.g. if it is limited to A for life and then to B in tail , A is the ‘ Protector of the settlement ’ , and B can not bar the entail without A's consent .
15 It is used as base for many cocktails , but one of my favourite ways of serving the stuff is with a little help from the hedgerows .
16 It is used in bureaux for reference purposes and for checking case records and may be positioned by the telephone and used for telephone advice , because some consider it inappropriate to leave a caller while the adviser looks further afield for information .
17 As it is supplied in bulk for re-processing in many industrial applications , you may be fortunate to have a local factory or printing establishment with offcuts to spare .
18 … ( 6 ) Schedule 12 to this Act has effect for the purposes of this section and , in that Schedule — ( a ) Part I prescribes the matters for which provision must be made by a scheme if it is to be a scheme which qualifies for recognition for the purposes of this section ; ( b ) Part II prescribes the matters action in relation to any of which must be subject to investigation under a scheme if it is to qualify for recognition for the purpose of investigations in relation to that matter ; and ( c ) Part III contains other requirements to which a scheme must conform if it is to be so recognised .
19 It was getting near time for communion .
20 His voice moved up a register , from baritone to tenor , and it was tinged with irritation for the first time that evening .
21 When the guidance was issued in draft form last year it was ridiculed by professionals for failing to give care workers specific advice on action to deal with particularly difficult children , such as those who become violent or persistently abscond .
22 It was to lie in ruins for another sixty-one years .
23 It was conceded by counsel for the defendant , necessarily and rightly , that the old offence of larceny by a trick is covered by section 1(1) of the Act of 1968 , as well as by section 15(1) to which we shall refer later , despite what may be called the apparent consent of the victim .
24 Victors ' trophy until it was given to Brazil for keeps on their third win in 1970 .
25 The company said it was inundated with bids for 700 construction and 130 longer-term drilling jobs .
26 The company said it was inundated with bids for the 700 construction and 130 longer-term drilling jobs on offer .
27 It was born of fear for her grandfather , he thought as he returned to his butchery of the President 's shotgun .
28 It was criticized in Czechoslovakia for lacking a clause annulling the 1938 Munich Agreement which had led to the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia , and in Germany for lacking provisions on the property rights of the 2,000,000 Sudeten Germans expelled from Czechoslovakia after the end of the Second World War .
29 When it first appeared , The Languages of Love was generally read as a satire of London literary and academic circles , but it was criticized by reviewers for not being satiric enough ( Cranston 1957:90 , Allen 1957:470 ) .
30 It remained a workhouse until 1916 , when it was used as billets for the army .
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