Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [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 | So I arranged for one of the estate stalkers to take the remains up the river , when the Colonel and his lady were out for the day . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 | I went down the pitch and the ball was there for the shot . |
| 6 | If this was the likeliest prospect for a major resettlement , what chance was there for the re-emigration of the Kindertransporte ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ On that occasion the game was there for the taking . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ On that occasion the game was there for the taking . |
| 10 | In Northamptonshire , Lee 's ostensible role was primarily for the development of Tutorial Classes and for co-operation with voluntary organisations . |
| 11 | So there was no reason for crew reliefs except in emergencies , especially as the working season was only for the summer months . |
| 12 | That performance was enough for the bookmakers to make The Fellow favourite for this afternoon 's big one . |
| 13 | The whole world , the whole of society was there for the comedians to plunder . |
| 14 | And for thousands it represented a real land of opportunity where the sun shone and the good life was there for the taking . |
| 15 | Her whole body was sixteen again , and the wide-eyed world was there for the taking . |
| 16 | School was over for the day and Sara had expected Jenny to arrive before this . |
| 17 | I begged him to strike out when land was there for the taking , but he was a small thinker … a loser . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Efficient as it undoubtedly was , the incinerator loo was n't for the workforce who feared the menace it posed to their privates . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The teachers could n't ask Frank where his mother might be because his class was out for the day on a Project Course . |
| 26 | However , during July 1964 , Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother was there for the opening night . |