Example sentences of "it [verb] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shell U K will have to wait until tomorrow to hear what sentence it receives for causing a 30 mile oil slick which polluted the River Mersey . |
| 2 | And Shell U K will have to wait until tomorrow to hear what sentence it receives for causing a 30 mile oil slick , which polluted the River Mersey . |
| 3 | This is an extremely important result , both because of its policy implications which we shall consider later in this chapter and because of the scope it offers for testing the rational expectations hypothesis . |
| 4 | It argued for finding and using linguistic and conceptual links between the oral and written modes ( see , for instance , Mackay , Thompson and Schaub , 1970 ; Reid , 1973 ) . |
| 5 | But we used to put the oats to the mill and the and the corn for getting it bruised for feeding the horse and the cattle . |
| 6 | In the latter half of the twentieth century , belief in Sandys ' nuclear philosophy counted for less than the political opportunity that it provided for ending National Service . |
| 7 | Each family doctor practice will be able to discuss with the local Family Practitioner Committee the amount it needs for prescribing for its patients . |
| 8 | The Government 's repugnance for that organisation and everything it stands for has been made absolutely clear on repeated occasions . |
| 9 | The even greater increase in the availability of textuality made possible by the digital revolution , combined with the facilities it allows for altering , merging , and adding to already written texts , presents a related but different set of problems to the novelist . |
| 10 | It craves for planning as the alcoholic craves for drink . |
| 11 | The Senate version , however , is in the expansionist spirit : it calls for establishing a National Institute of Arthritis , Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases . |
| 12 | It calls for logging on federal lands to be reduced to 25 per cent of late 1980s levels , with buffer zones to be established along salmon spawning streams . |
| 13 | So ESA is having to cough up rather more than it bargained for to insure the European communications satellite that , if all goes to plan , Ariane will place in orbit on its next launch in June . |
| 14 | It helps for holding pipes when making joints or for holding fittings which you are dismantling . |
| 15 | Streicher preferred it to force for producing a forte . |
| 16 | It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that with regard to the explicit curriculum , RE has to fight for its life — constant vigilance is the necessary price it pays for retaining any foothold at all in a curriculum groaning under the weight of other priorities . |
| 17 | Seven years ago Lyons Tetley called in the Mass Observation research agency ( a WPP subsidiary ) to help determine whether there was any future in an idea it had for differentiating Tetley teabags from those of competitors . |
| 18 | Indeed , Wirral had no more reason to have such structures than it had for setting up multi-professional committees to discuss the dangers of residents keeping snakes as pets in council-owned properties . |
| 19 | I hope that we are never foolish enough to take what it does for granted — because that is when it will begin to crumble and fail like so many others have done . |
| 20 | " The heart and soul of a resource collection is not material at all : it lies in the structure of thought it exhibits , in the creative association it provokes and in the opportunities it provides for training the young learner in how to learn and think . " |