Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [was/were] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides , in some ways the change was for the better . |
| 2 | The contract was for a fixed term of five years . |
| 3 | Already worn out after their day 's activities , the hope was for an early night . |
| 4 | During the Thirties when the streamlined fleet was introduced , the driver was for the first time provided with his own driving cab , complete with folding seat . |
| 5 | SE claimed that the cylinders were for an Iraqi petrochemical project and that their export had been approved by the UK 's Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) . |
| 6 | The first lots to come into the ring were for the annual lease of ewes . |
| 7 | The search was for a better glue , not a worse one . |
| 8 | The plan was for a short gathering , possibly not more than a month long , which would reassert the unity of the Church and its authority in matters of the faith . |
| 9 | An interpreter said later : ‘ The prayers were for the Royal Family and the prince and princess themselves . |
| 10 | As the Vice-chairman , who was re-elected , was also deaf , the two elected leaders of the BDA were for the first time deaf . |
| 11 | The forecasts were for a 28 per cent increase between 1983 and 1993 ( although the demographic shifts noted above may reduce this ) , and indeed by 1989 the increase was already 19 per cent . |
| 12 | The applause was for the joint effort . |
| 13 | The demand was for a state-backed campaign to educate women and girls . |
| 14 | The call was for a silver-grey Mercedes with a damaged offside door . |
| 15 | In 1981 , however , sports car drivers had a World Championship for the first time , when the championship was again renamed the World Endurance Championship and from 1982 the championship was for the new Group C cars . |
| 16 | Overall the preference was for a six hour course followed closely by the three hour course . |
| 17 | It was held that such a grant where the application was for a full new licence constitutes a refusal and can be competently the subject of an appeal under 5.17(4) . |
| 18 | ‘ I am very upset because the stall was for a good cause . ’ |
| 19 | The provisional Cost Allowances for the accommodation were for a 24-bed unit 430,000 and for a 30-bed unit £500,000 . |
| 20 | The most significant project in the year was for the proposed BNFL Nuclear Power Station at Sellafield which was won against strong opposition . |
| 21 | of the records were for the last week of April and the first two of May . |
| 22 | of the records were for the third week of September . |
| 23 | The promise was for an own-brand Minder ; cocky and cockney like the original — low- or middle-brow entertainment with a high gloss . |
| 24 | The invitation was for the 19th . |
| 25 | I remember a morning like that in Derbyshire … a morning with so much Day-Glo orange cardboard sprouting on poles from so many fields that by 11am I was near suicide — a mood that ended with the discovery that the posters were for a popular brand of fertiliser . |
| 26 | All this depended on the fact that the Romans were for the first time in the law of succession experiencing an ‘ open ’ system . |
| 27 | The conversion was for a technical reason — this was the third year of World War One and the dye for the paper was manufactured in Germany . |
| 28 | But to be made a deacon was for the first time to profess before a multitude that the soul undertook the cause of God in a special ministry , and for the first time to feel sent to an apostolic work . |