Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [was/were] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Top price in the dairy ring of £1,130 was paid for a choice calved Friesian heifer and a calved Ayrshire heifer sold at the second top price of £1,070 . |
| 2 | Top price of £990 was paid for a Whitehead cow and heifer calf from J J Murphy , Caledon . |
| 3 | It was settled that Branson would give her the signed contract at the Roof Gardens , where all the directors of Virgin were meeting for a Christmas dinner . |
| 4 | What was crucial , though , was that this development did not mean that a special category of movies was made for a sectional audience but rather that what was thought of as the ‘ quality ’ taste was allowed to shape the general output of movies . |
| 5 | By convention , the post of Speaker was reserved for a Shia Moslem . |
| 6 | To some extent perhaps they were the victims of their own official attitude to what was happening — as when the French Ambassador in London told Eden that a French civil and military resistance organization in Vietnam had the general support of the army and the civil population : whether this was the French or the Vietnamese population was apparently not specified — but in their Declaration of 24 March 1945 the Provisional French Government implied that all the peoples of Indochina were fighting for a common cause ; which was that of the entire French community . |
| 7 | A price of £11.00 was envisaged for a meal of Chicken in a Basket with full payment at least two weeks in advance . |
| 8 | Peter of Corbeil was recommended for a prebend in York , given the bishopric of Cambrai in 1199 and then translated to the archbishopric of Sens in 1200 . |
| 9 | In the same sale the top price of £11,700 was given for a twelve-piece Ring 's Pattern set of table cutlery in an oak canteen which was made in Sheffield in 1931 and £950 for a George IV coffee pot of panelled baluster form decorated with acanthus leaf motifs made in London in 1825 , probably by Joseph Angell . |
| 10 | At the same time warrants of arrest were issued for a number of former ministers and other Ershad associates . |
| 11 | Our cargo of cement was destined for a factory at Tima , a town which lay a few miles back from the riverbank . |
| 12 | A THIEF who stole from cars was jailed for a year yesterday . |
| 13 | Within a couple of hours the silence that had wrapped the sea in peace was changed for a distant roar-like thunder . |
| 14 | What the hell , people in Africa were gasping for a beer , and he had a whole case stashed here . |
| 15 | Thirty years ago teacher education in Britain was set for a major expansion . |
| 16 | The 35-year-old Kurd from Turkey was waiting for a routine appointment in the Croydon Immigration Office in south London when he doused himself with petrol . |
| 17 | An advertisement had appeared on one of the university noticeboards saying that Benghazi University in Libya was looking for a lecturer in engineering . |
| 18 | Commons nearer to settlements were used for a variety of purposes . |
| 19 | The ban on political activity imposed when the NRM came to power was extended for a further five years in March 1990 . |