Example sentences of "it [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The University 's overhauled financial systems allow it to plan for another year in which income and expenditure will at least balance and may perhaps allow some restoration of the reserves it needs to cope with unexpected problems . |
| 2 | I personally and I 'm sure it goes for many here , have spent a long time in the private rented sector and if the opportunity existed to get into council housing we would have taken it . |
| 3 | It 's a help , but not a complete solution to the problem because once chlorine has been released in the stratosphere , it persists for many years and goes on destroying ozone . |
| 4 | We can not as readers see this as a fault , since it made for such richness of scene and mood , though Marryat seems to have felt it so . |
| 5 | The agreement endorsed the principle of " self-sufficiency " , which stipulated that waste should be treated or disposed of as close as possible to the point of production , although it provided for some flexibility in the case of smaller countries . |
| 6 | She 's over an inch less where it counts for that dress . ’ |
| 7 | Letterman 's notion of the universal spirit has a commercial aspect : it stands for that human striving which exists as a counter to the banality of human life in the suburbs and malls of our countries . |
| 8 | By 1820 , it was owned and worked by Robert Wight , who continued to manufacture cloth there , the mill becoming known as Wights Mill , a name that it retained for many years . |
| 9 | ‘ Ask not for whom the box-office till rings : it rings for all when the missing millions creep out of their burrows to find enchantment waiting for them . ’ |
| 10 | Jay had never known it to work for more than weeks . |
| 11 | Surmounted by a slender clock-tower , which summoned the Belgian bourgeoisie to rendezvous with the trains as surely as any muezzin summoning the faithful to prayer , it looks for all the world as if it has been transported by some mischievous jinn on a magic carpet . |
| 12 | But within this context , Wilkins ' elegant stuccoed facades will be retained , and an important landmark has been saved and will look far more handsome and dignified than it has for many years . |
| 13 | But , in spite of the considerable effort and investment , it has for many years failed to pay its way . |
| 14 | It has for many years been the most widely used method of social research . |
| 15 | While much of the UK is looking gloomily at the dark clouds of a major recession , it seems poetic justice that for at least some of Belfast 's population , the future looks better than it has for many years . |
| 16 | When you go to cast a vote in France , your ballot paper has two names on it , the name of the candidate for , or at least it has for each party or for each candidate two names . |
| 17 | It has for some time been considered a most urgent need to extricate mentally handicapped children from long-stay hospitals and stop their admission to them , and there has , as a result , been a sharp fall in the numbers of mentally handicapped children in hospitals . |
| 18 | By far the most popular location in recent years has been the Netherlands , for the very good reason that it has for some time offered by far the best deal . |
| 19 | The outcome of these changes is that the drug bill is rising faster than it has for some years and above the rate of inflation . |
| 20 | The twentieth century has seen the growth of a considerable literature on management as an acquired skill and it has for some time been possible to obtain academic management qualifications . |
| 21 | For most of these the use of English presents no problem and the Church does not assume the cultural importance that it has for some of those from ethnic minority cultures who live permanently in Britain . |
| 22 | It has for some years been established beyond doubt that Elisabeth used her long period as custodian of her brother 's works and papers ( during which time she wrote and rewrote his biography , as well as overseeing the editing of his works ) to misrepresent important aspects of his life and thought and , in extreme cases , to falsify letters and unpublished writings . |
| 23 | What hope there is resides primarily in the same section of the news-stands as it has for several years — the ‘ serious ’ and ‘ specialist ’ music press . |
| 24 | A significant aspect of her work is that it always broaches the boundaries between the traditional disciplines of philosophy , psychoanalysis , literary , and art theory ; the implications it holds for each are touched on by the essays in this collection ( for instance , Ainley , ‘ The Ethics of Sexual Difference ’ ; O'Connor , ‘ The An-Arche of Psychotherapy ’ ; Minow-Pinkney , ‘ Virginia Woolf : ‘ Seen from a Foreign Land' ’ ; and Burgin , ‘ Geometry and Abjection ’ ) . |
| 25 | The number of matrices B which diagonalise A in this manner is indefinitely large : to prove the theorem we need only show that it holds for any two . |
| 26 | If you have put mud in the aquarium , leave it to stand for several hours , or perhaps overnight , for this to settle . |
| 27 | it matters for this one , for this concert . |
| 28 | And someone buying it looking for that kind of book could justifiably feel they were being sold short . |
| 29 | It requires government to speak with one voice , to act in a principled and coherent manner to ward all its citizens , to extend to everyone the substantive standards of justice or fairness it uses for some . |
| 30 | The particular focus which I find valuable is the concept of the ‘ life course ’ , which is different from the more orthodox conception of the ‘ life cycle ’ and ‘ family life cycle ’ , in that it allows for more variation and does not assume that family relationships go through a series of modifications which are totally predictable in advance . |