Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [verb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Somoza personally pocketed the international funding that was raised for a national mental-health programme in 1972 . |
| 2 | The costs for the US would be enormous , indeed the requirement of the French was that the US would pay the entire cost , but money and munitions could be regarded as the essential calipers which might allow the rickety infant to walk ; and as long as it had an American account it would grow up and would be able to buy everything that was needed for a new nation state . |
| 3 | In 1923 Van Der Meulen applied for the post of consul there and was selected for a three-year training in Arabic and Islam by the great Leiden Arabist , Snouck Hurgronje . |
| 4 | He confesses that at the age of 40 he had reached ‘ the proverbial midlife crisis ’ and was searching for a different way of life . |
| 5 | He had just won the Cannes Palme d'Or for Mission , and was looking for a new challenge . |
| 6 | She had just arrived and was looking for a cheap hotel . |
| 7 | Earlier that year he had met a merchant from London who had money to spare and was looking for a likely speculation and Harry , being in the right place at the right time for once , had sold him the idea of investing in a privateering cruise to the Americas . |
| 8 | Well , she was actually called Marian Evans and was looking for a masculine name to writer under . |
| 9 | He was rewarded with the first Presidency of the BDDA and was reelected for a total period of twenty-eight years . |
| 10 | By now Caroline had left the London college and was working for a glossy magazine in Cardiff . |
| 11 | She thought afterwards , and was to think for a long time , that it was Sophie and Teodor who saved her . |