Example sentences of "it for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why does n't it have a mark on it for absolute brass monkeys ? |
| 2 | Yeah well , it was right it was cheaper to do it for twelve months anyway . |
| 3 | People who use land and invest their labour in it are benefiting society more than those real owners who neglect it to the extent of ignoring it for twelve years or more . |
| 4 | You can claim other defences as well : for example , if you need the blade or point for work , or if it is necessary to carry it for religious reasons or as part of any national costume . |
| 5 | Muslims and Jews want to get rid of it for religious reasons ; Americans want ( wanted ? ) to get rid of it for hygienic reasons and for the hypothetical reduced risk of penile cancer in the circumcised population ; Latins love to play with it , like to keep it , and are taught to mobilise it often ; the British would like to ignore it , not to touch it , and eventually get rid of it when it causes too much trouble . |
| 6 | He stood in it for fifteen minutes , until it rang on the dot of nine . |
| 7 | Gasp as you find there 's one near you — no other computer event can match it for geographical diversity . |
| 8 | Although major developments in the ecosystem were largely external to biogeography until the 1960s , Stoddart ( 1967b , p. 524 ) argued that the ecosystem concept has four main properties which commend it for geographical investigation . |
| 9 | I want to write it for live musicians of both sexes . |
| 10 | It 's worth trying it for eighteen miles , is n't it ? ’ |
| 11 | Question , you go to see Mr. and Mrs. Client tonight , and they need , let's say they need a hundred thousand pounds worth of life cover , and to fit their lifestyle , or their children , their family , they need it for eighteen years , they ca n't afford that . |
| 12 | They can ship it , National Power can ship it half way across the world and get it for eighteen pound a ton . |
| 13 | George made a long thinking , grumbling noise , then said , mostly to himself : ‘ The paperwork must have been good … if they were living on it for eighteen months … they were n't escaped prisoners of war trying to reach Switzerland on a hand-copied Fremdenpass … |
| 14 | Where in previous years these vessels had been purely large fishing vessels loading salted fish into barrels for immediate export to their own ports , now there came great numbers of large factory ships and modern trawlers which could process fish , package it and freeze it for indefinite periods . |
| 15 | It was decided that until the camp arrived Lady Rathcreedan could use it for grazing cattle . |
| 16 | Most people joined it for humanitarian reasons but it was an outlet for all kinds of disgust . |
| 17 | This is almost all that can be gleaned from broadly contemporary written sources about the Danish monarchy between c.950 and the accession c.987 of Swegen Forkbeard , who conquered England in 1013 , and whose son Cnut ruled it for nineteen years . |
| 18 | I frequently perform funerals three deep : that is , I do it for one person , who does it for another , who does it for the relatives of the deceased , he being the first person applied to . |
| 19 | People paid 25 roubles to have it for one night . |
| 20 | They were allowed to see it for one hour , before it was taken back , and none of them has been able to get hold of it since . |
| 21 | Is it for one driver or any driver ? |
| 22 | For example , an investor could buy a ten-year bond , hold it for one year and receive the coupon , and then sell it for the current price of a nine-year bond with the same coupon . |
| 23 | Suppose also that an investor intends to buy the share , hold it for one year and then sell it at the end of the year . |
| 24 | I wore it for one year and that |
| 25 | Which is what I meant to erm tt get on to Chris from the press office B B C Well I 'll give him a bell and just organize it for one day . |
| 26 | Scrap it for one day . |
| 27 | I do know that I 'm not going to put up with it for one minute longer , though . |
| 28 | I do n't believe it for one minute , personally , but this is the , this is the theory , and I 'll explain why I do n't believe it , later . |
| 29 | We 've just been going on timing it for one minute or something . |
| 30 | They wo n't wear it for one minute when I tell them the whole story . ’ |