Example sentences of "[noun] was [pron] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Implicitly , the programme was one for the reform of the existing empire rather than its overthrow . |
| 2 | He told Nicola the programme was looking tired and the job was hers for the asking ’ |
| 3 | In time , the ever-increasing number of visitors had opened up an entirely new source of income for the Heymouthians , and instead of having to depend on fishing as their primary source of income , they found the tourist trade was theirs for the developing . |
| 4 | Richter 's story was unearthed by Mario Mariscotti who wrote a book in Spanish called The Secret of Huemmel Island in which he tells how Argentina , during the Peronist regime , had mistakenly thought that fusion was its for the asking . |
| 5 | On the days he was going to see her , he woke up feeling that anything was possible , that the world was his for the asking . |
| 6 | By then , at the end of the century , the Secretary 's power was his for the taking . |