Example sentences of "[noun] was [adv] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unhappiness was not for the shop , but for a lady who was employed by Mr Bacon on a part-time basis , and the lady was my aunt Mary . |
| 2 | While both Steven and Matthew feel their parents ' divorce was ultimately for the good , it has left Steven , at least , with strong reservations about marriage . |
| 3 | It was the same every Friday : Abie Klugman was home for the Sabbath , always the first to return . |
| 4 | The traditional tenancy , because of its informal character , was seen as an obstacle to improvement in these respects … what incentive was there for the tenant farmer to engage in agricultural improvement ? |
| 5 | Owen was all for the Agreement . |
| 6 | I went down the pitch and the ball was there for the shot . |
| 7 | If this was the likeliest prospect for a major resettlement , what chance was there for the re-emigration of the Kindertransporte ? |
| 8 | The father was on for the whole of the second act of The Hooded Owl , and never had that part of the play passed as slowly as it did that evening . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ On that occasion the game was there for the taking . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ On that occasion the game was there for the taking . |
| 11 | In Northamptonshire , Lee 's ostensible role was primarily for the development of Tutorial Classes and for co-operation with voluntary organisations . |
| 12 | Reggie Grenfell was there for the recording . |
| 13 | So there was no reason for crew reliefs except in emergencies , especially as the working season was only for the summer months . |
| 14 | Although the twins were disappointed that Kerry-Jane was away for the day , on a visit to her grandmother , they happily helped with packing the picnic into the car . |
| 15 | That performance was enough for the bookmakers to make The Fellow favourite for this afternoon 's big one . |
| 16 | The whole world , the whole of society was there for the comedians to plunder . |
| 17 | And for thousands it represented a real land of opportunity where the sun shone and the good life was there for the taking . |
| 18 | Her whole body was sixteen again , and the wide-eyed world was there for the taking . |
| 19 | School was over for the day and Sara had expected Jenny to arrive before this . |
| 20 | I begged him to strike out when land was there for the taking , but he was a small thinker … a loser . |
| 21 | They claim it has been put in the story by the early Church , during the period of the oral tradition , to show that Jesus thought his mission was primarily for the Jews and not the Gentiles . |
| 22 | Come along , " Aunt Tossie was all for the fun of the fair . |
| 23 | The cost was exclusively for the benefit of the business and could not be carried forward in the accounts as an asset after the lease expired . |
| 24 | By 1968 , the clean-cut image of lads in suits and neatly trimmed hair was definitely for the birds , but not the Byrds , and the Monkees had all but swung from their last branch ; the exploitation of four young men who were plucked from audition lines and manufactured into an internationally famous foursome was all but over . |
| 25 | Ms McCarthy was out for the evening with a friend , Stacey Gallacher , when they heard that acid house partygoers were meeting on Clapham Common . |
| 26 | Efficient as it undoubtedly was , the incinerator loo was n't for the workforce who feared the menace it posed to their privates . |
| 27 | The majority decision was enough for the BAF to rule that the 22-year-old Croydon sprinter , who was found positive in an out-of-competition test just before the Olympics , remains banned until 1996 . |
| 28 | Twenty pounds of butter was enough for the lease of two and a half desiatiny of land for five years.l Five pudy of linseed cake were exchanged for the approaching harvest of a desiatin of wheat . |
| 29 | The knowledge that the larger margin was there for the taking , if you were bold enough to seize it , exercised him as much now as it had done back in 1973 . |
| 30 | The teachers could n't ask Frank where his mother might be because his class was out for the day on a Project Course . |