Example sentences of "it for [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Susan Clements borrows it for discussing some issues to do with drug and alcohol teams . |
| 2 | Some have proposed other reasons for Planet X , blaming it for causing periodic comet showers and mass extinctions on Earth , or for stealing Pluto from Neptune and reversing the motion of Neptune 's satellite Triton . |
| 3 | Environmentalists criticized it for emphasizing improved access to energy supplies while failing to ensure adequate environmental safeguards . |
| 4 | You take it for granted one of the maids will come in and tidy it for you . |
| 5 | Why do we take it for granted that education is a good to which everyone equally is entitled ? |
| 6 | This was a sensible policy which would bring stability to Britain , and took it for granted that stability would mean that relations with the colonies would remain unchanged . |
| 7 | It is evident that Lakatos took it for granted that physics constitutes the paradigm of rationality and good science . |
| 8 | Nor can an economist take it for granted that inflation will make people save more ( in the US they save less ) . |
| 9 | We know that , in general , the literati became the bureaucratic agents of the established political order and that they always took it for granted that hierarchy is part of the natural order of things . |
| 10 | The great length of wing which this bird possesses , admirably adapts it for inhabiting such a country as the far interior is generally imagined to be … ’ |
| 11 | And erm the old chief that designed er er erm a boring bath for it for boring that . |
| 12 | Thus ‘ held with the intention ’ came to be construed in a sense which the language of Parliament can not possibly bear as a matter of ordinary sense and grammar , as embracing not only material held by the crooked solicitor but material held without any intention on the part of the holder but infected , either at the time of its creation or , seemingly , at any subsequent time , by an intention on the part of any person , whether the client entitled to it or anyone else , to use it for furthering some criminal purpose . |
| 13 | I mean we were in a particular discussion last night I mean that chap was making a particular point and we were able to ask questions and that was very useful and it helped everything else and as a result I have a view that Hydro Electric have a certain commitment to the community and I respect it for having that commitment . |
| 14 | I 've had great fun and great service from the package and used it for designing several garments for both hand and machine knitting . |