Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [prep] [noun sg] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 141 totals achieved by Page and Maguire were one under par for the 36 holes , Page managing a 69 before lunch and Maguire following with a 69 . |
| 2 | It was a six-man heat , so there was plenty of scope for the wily strategist . |
| 3 | In all this there was plenty of scope for an awareness and endurance of contradiction . |
| 4 | The Australian professional took 7–103 , bringing his tally of league wickets to 35 and , although the home side made 187–8 , there was plenty of time for the Middlesbrough batsmen to knock off the runs . |
| 5 | This was something of bonus for the Williams since it had learned next to nothing during practice thanks to niggling problems associated with a new car . |
| 6 | It was , for all that , quite a struggle for Ballesteros before he at last got his game together over the closing holes for a halfway total of 143 , two ahead of Olazabal , who was one over par for the 36 holes . |