Example sentences of "[pron] it [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company expects the Motif drag-and-drop , which it substituted for its proprietary GUI , to shorten the learning curve . |
| 2 | Which it does for several years . |
| 3 | The praying mantis has a single ear in the middle of its thorax which it uses for bat detection . |
| 4 | Finally , in view of the crucial part which the further education sector plays in the educational and economic well-being of Wales , not least in the way in which it caters for the indigenous population , it is regrettable that too big a gap still exists between it and the secondary school sector and too few Welshmen and women , particularly perhaps among those who are Welsh speaking , recognize its many achievements in the past and the vital contribution which it will be called upon to make in the future . |
| 5 | Community education organises two large camps each year for special needs students in addition to class provision which it arranges for a number of specific groups of adults : |
| 6 | The Swiss Government has also submitted its application for membership , but has not yet received the assent in the referendum which it requires for this application to go forward formally . |
| 7 | The role which it envisages for the state is limited to that of providing the minimum framework necessary for the regulation of competing private interests , while the gesellschaft model of law is conceived in terms of formally defining the equivalent individual rights that are required to make the market work . |
| 8 | THE mighty ITT is running into legal problems with the name Digivision which it chose for its £20 million investment in an all-digital television set . |
| 9 | Croydon Corporation was not satisfied with the compensation which it received for the loss of its tramways and went to arbitration . |
| 10 | And that is why we are so confident IBM — at least at the high levels where policy is made — has n't a clue about the nature of the large systems customers on which it depends for a considerable portion of its revenue and , we believe , more than half its gross profit . |
| 11 | Even so , the significance it has for Hobbes is nothing like that which it had for Bacon . |
| 12 | But there is already much evidence that the market is prepared to pay for services in a way quite different from that in which it pays for products . |
| 13 | The idea , under the new plan , is that , over a number of years , the local authority will contract with a wide range of voluntary and private agencies to provide a spectrum of different services which it pays for . |
| 14 | The problems reflect a painful transition period for Bolt Beranek as its major market — the military military , on which it depended for almost half its revenue — is slipping away while it has yet to see much return from its substantial investment in Asynchronous Transfer Mode switching or its T/10 Integrated Access Device . |
| 15 | In practice the countryside was easy to conquer ; but it could only be controlled properly if the fortified places upon which it depended for its economic well-being and defence were also in friendly hands . |
| 16 | Located in Bilston in the Black Country , Perry Poultry buys oven-ready poultry , which it processes for a prestigious range of customers including Marks & Spencer , Sainsbury 's and Kentucky Fried Chicken ( Perry makes Zingers , Kentucky 's new line of spiced burgers ) . |
| 17 | To understand what is happening it is crucial to see Marxism not in the guise which it claims for itself — namely a scientific method — but as an ideology — a set of beliefs and ideas which help us interpret the world and provide a basis for action — which is a substitute for the religious vacuum left by the decline of Christianity in the West . |
| 18 | Were Lascars and Chinamen to benefit from the improvements in food , accommodation , repatriation etc. which it provided for British seamen ? |
| 19 | The ability to remember information is related directly to the importance which it has for you . |
| 20 | Marxism 's claim to the status of a science proper thus functions as a device to avoid the historicity through which it accounts for other phenomena . |
| 21 | There is nothing in the criteria which it stipulates for rational behaviour that confines its application to a market clearing framework . |
| 22 | On The Waste Land specifically , he told one inquirer that the real meaning of the poem is that which it holds for whoever is reading it . |
| 23 | Some aspects of its proposals for reforming the police and rethinking police tactics were implemented during 1982 and 1983 , but evidence of the ‘ urgent action ’ which it called for in other areas remained difficult to find . |
| 24 | The Government 's repugnance for that organisation and everything it stands for has been made absolutely clear on repeated occasions . |
| 25 | You see , Harry , Rex adored the Tyrrell Society and everything it stood for . |
| 26 | A banquet-hall deserted — Broadstone Station would henceforth be only that to thousands for whom it had for long been associated with happiness — the happiness of the day 's work , the happiness of companionship , the happiness of simply being alive on a fine day . |
| 27 | My records nee go it it plays for a bit , then it goes brurgh ! |
| 28 | The same as , I , them that buys our 'ouse , they 'll have to pay whatever it cost for 'em to value our 'ouse , see if it 's worth lending money , we 'll have the same thing with er bungalow , down there . |
| 29 | " He will share your bed and possess your body , " Maria Candida had said when asked what it meant for a woman to give herself to her husband . |
| 30 | Remember that what you think a word means is not necessarily what it meant for the writer . |