Example sentences of "be [vb pp] for it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normal market practice is for SCP to be issued on a non-interest bearing basis at a discount to its face value , although provision has also been made for it to bear a stated rate of interest . |
| 2 | One or two of the boys would go in there , fellers of the village , and they would stop there all night , and the next night ; and they say it had been known for it to go the week ; have a week settin' in , staying in the pub . |
| 3 | th you er I mean if it were very heavy you 'd almost sort of be prepared for it to go , but you know when you 're s s standing with a , something quite light , and you might have been standing with it a little while in your hand , and then suddenly the hand goes and ca n't you see that 's ve that 's very upsetting , it makes you not very confident . |
| 4 | Everyone was hungry , but there was no food to be had for it had floated out of the village shop and away . |
| 5 | If that right is not set out in the expert clause the agreement of the parties ( and , probably , the agreement of the expert as well ) will be needed for it to become part of the reference . |
| 6 | The longer that the muon sticks to the helium , the less time is left for it to catalyse further fusions . |
| 7 | Permission was given for it to move into the Imperial Institute , but there was no shelving , which made the library unusable . |
| 8 | As far as I know , there are only two still in existence : one , the U.505 , was captured by an American task force towards the end of the war , towed up the St Lawrence and through the Great Lakes to Chicago where a special cradle was built for it to cross the Lake Shore Drive and then set up in a little house of its own in the Museum of Science and Industry . |
| 9 | Hence if a trigram was not present in the corpus then a probability was generated for it based on the bigrams , and if the bigram was absent the probability was based on the unigram . |