Example sentences of "it [verb] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If " father " today means for many people a non-existent person , a drunkard , someone unkind or hateful , or if it denotes for others an exclusion of women , then it needs to be appropriately translated in different terms . |
| 2 | If the sergeant got there before you and did n't find you , he would tap with his signalling stick and it goes for miles in the middle of the night — give him a little tinkle , and you walk towards one another . |
| 3 | It asked for powers to use animal or electric traction and trams or motor buses . |
| 4 | Where the term breached is a less important term , a warranty , breach merely entitles the victim of it to sue for damages and does not allow the victim to end the contract . |
| 5 | It provided for cuts in support prices to reduce overproduction , and payment of compensation directly to farmers , on condition that all but the smallest farmers " set aside " 15 per cent of their land from production . |
| 6 | The Pill has probably been even more liberating for men than it has for women , as men have to worry even less about contraception than they did before . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They managed to finish on grass quite happily and their marbled , lean , tender beef caught the eye of the butchers , as it has for centuries . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Bacon could be discussed here , since its input is numeric , or in the section on correlation and clustering since it searches for correlations . |
| 11 | It searches for heroes in the knowledge that villains are thick on the ground . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | The Treaty is not written on tablets of stone , it allows for changes and improvements as early as nineteen ninety six . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In doing so , it secured for co-operatives what the first of the modern Companies Acts had done in 1844 for joint stock companies . |
| 19 | It 's that sort of change that I think is extremely significant , and I think it happens for women very much at that stage , when they have been through those sorts of experiences themselves , so one way in which I think that we can change things is — and help people to change things for themselves — is very much to support and develop those kinds of second change erm access , returning to education , returning to work , type projects as very much part of mainstream education and employment , and I would like to see a much greater range of those sorts of projects available for people and erm a lot more government resources into supporting that kind of provision . |
| 20 | Last year , reading week was , it seemed for ages , was n't it ? |
| 21 | Was n't it damaging for men like them , who ‘ often find it painful and difficult to mingle with people , to speak with them ? ’ |
| 22 | Despite their uniform appearance , each has a unique identity conferred by the receptors it bears for antigens . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | My right hon. Friend said that we had inflation licked in a way that we had not had it licked for years . |
| 25 | It flourished for decades , with manufacturers vying with one another over technical developments , styling and warranties . |
| 26 | And and and say your mother and grandmothers day was it used for tykes at all ? |
| 27 | This booklet has been produced by women for women to provide accurate and up to date information about AIDS and the issues and problems it raises for women . |
| 28 | No longer was it to look for signs of forest decline , it was to investigate a link between pollution and forest decline . |
| 29 | Is n't it demoralizing for police officers to see offenders not being prosecuted ? |
| 30 | Except that on this day , while it hunted for flies , one frog lost its way and crawled around the side of one of the outermost petals , or possibly leaves , and saw something it had never seen before . |