Example sentences of "it [verb] for [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Society heard in July 1861 that the Board was to remove the Bondgate bubbler the cattle fountain that was turning the highway to mire it asked for permission to replace it . |
| 2 | It asked for powers to use animal or electric traction and trams or motor buses . |
| 3 | Situated on the banks of the River Mondego , on an important crossroads , it has for centuries played a vital role in the life of the centre of the country . |
| 4 | In Bulgaria traditional music thrives , and unlike British fold music ( collated and ruined by rich Victorians ) it has for centuries remained undiluted by outside influences . |
| 5 | Eden Group Ltd , the company behind Amstrad Plc 's PDA600 personal digital assistant ( CI No 2,131 ) says it looking for partners to manufacture and sell two new prototype machines . |
| 6 | Crawford notes that while the architecture is useful to represent the business strategy , and while the associated products are necessary building blocks , the model is useless unless it allows for services to put the various pieces of the puzzle together . |
| 7 | It allows for firms to place an imaginary bubble over the multiple point sources of its plant and to be given an overall maximum emission limitation for the bubble ( figure 7.3 ) . |
| 8 | Unlike IBM 's SAA , he says , DCM is open and flexible enough to be customised for each particular site ; it allows for customers wanting to integrate other vendors ' hardware , which Bull will try to supply if necessary . |
| 9 | X Window is certain to be a success because it allows for applications running on any manufacturer 's machine and any multi-tasking operating system to be used by any X-based workstation or terminal . |
| 10 | Husayn had now removed the central plank of Labour 's electoral manifesto to the delight of Likud , which rejected negotiations with Jordan as irrelevant to the kind of autonomy it envisaged for Palestinians living in Eretz Israel . |
| 11 | It calls for councils to adopt key policies in their current planning which will affect the future of the city until the year 2000 . |
| 12 | This is not so hypocritical as it sounds for Godwin hated violence and war . |
| 13 | Given the time it takes for non-experts to put up a house , the interest charges on your loan may eat considerably into the discount you capture by using your own labour , says Tuffin . |
| 14 | The four system units will be organised around products — mainframe computers , mid-range , self-service terminal systems and application software , and is intended significantly to cut the time it takes for products to get to market — the aim is to cut in half the time it takes to develop products and bring them to the market . |
| 15 | He finds the surge of earth more beautiful than the sea because it waits for man to inhabit it , when man comes into his own and finds his true home . |
| 16 | How long would it take for selection to specify 10 8 base pairs ? |
| 17 | Those of us who remember the horrid cruelties applied to Frank Williams in the days when he was generally considered ‘ Wanker Williams ’ , an outsider with no chance to make good , can remember how it felt for Emerson to climb down off his mountain and to try to make good in a changing and by then wholly different world . |
| 18 | For example they would ask ‘ What does it mean for Jesus to die on the cross ? ’ rather than ‘ What happened when Jesus was crucified ? ’ |
| 19 | Short , ugly , long-nosed with dirty brown clothes , they also love to dance , but their feet poison and blacken the grass , making it unfit for animals to graze there . |
| 20 | Masklin wondered how many times it had industriously cleaned this corridor , while it waited for nomes to come back … . |