Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [be] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dutch water , gas and electricity distributor , Energie Delfland NV , Delft , has signed for UK , Cambridge-based Smallworld Systems Ltd 's geographical information system which it is to use for its Atlas project management and distribution system running on Sun Microsystems Inc workstations . |
| 2 | Within the underground complex many mysterious rites take place which it is forbidden for any male to witness . |
| 3 | The Macallan is a smooth , sumptuous whisky that gets its character and rich , dark amber colour from the sherry casks in which it is aged for at least ten years . |
| 4 | The unspoken assumption here , as so often elsewhere , was that crowds would impair enjoyment — a typically individualistic assumption which it is taken for granted applies to the entire population . |
| 5 | The artefact 's capacity to separate itself from the immediacy of a relationship embodied in the concept of utility is most evident in the manner in which it is used for precisely the opposite function , that is , to separate the individual from productive activity . |
| 6 | Any contracts won on an exclusive basis could affect the price at which it is offered for sale . |
| 7 | This strategy was transferred to the successive discrimination , and for at least some of the animals allowed immediate solution of that test — an animal that had learned to turn away from white in the left arm , say , would already be equipped to solve a successive discrimination in which it was rewarded for turning left when both arms were black and right when both were white . |
| 8 | The sample had a 170:1 split , at an initial temperature of 220°C , ramping at 2°C/minute to 280°C at which it was kept for 15 minutes , using helium as the carrier gas . |
| 9 | She seems to have been wholly unaware that she was in fact queen of a kingdom with a justifiably high opinion of itself — so much so that it is actually supremely ironic that Mary , brought up in one of the greatest of European countries , should have found this one , smaller , but passionately European , so much less interesting and appealing than the kingdom of England , not only Scotland 's traditional enemy , but already beginning the descent into the isolation which it was to maintain for much of the seventeenth century . |
| 10 | Whatever it was looking for , we did n't hang around to find out . |
| 11 | Food for Microwaving is also useful but it has some curious entries : under flour , for instance , it simply describes what flour is and what it is used for , but has nothing to offer on how microwaving affects it in pastry , cakes , etc . |
| 12 | Find out what it is used for ( eg are the apples for eating or cooking with ? ) . |
| 13 | Decide where you want the storage directory to be , and name it so that you can understand what it is used for ; for instance , you may create it as follows : |
| 14 | And if you do n't withdraw it , the C E C is completely and totally opposed to it because we already have what it 's asking for in the rule . |
| 15 | Okay we know where it went and we know what it was used for , but er my question to you is , is it a legitimate use of a pension fund to fund a business development scheme which involves early retirement ? |
| 16 | That 's what it was testing for . |