Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] [pron] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Left in British politics had never had , nor needed to have , any single clear view about the structure of secondary education : the imperative was to provide it for all , and to provide it free . |
| 2 | ‘ What do you mean , ma'am ? ’ the sergeant grunted suspiciously , over-sensitive in his present mood , and fearful the superintendent was blaming him for some unknown misdemeanour . |
| 3 | The subsequent chronology of the licences , as well as the varying charges for them , reveal that the king was granting them for political and financial ends , to make friends and raise cash , particularly from the late 1290s when he desperately needed both . |
| 4 | Schooling was to train you for some largely predetermined end , whether it was a middle or a working-class one , not to equip you with the flexible , self-determining wherewithal for an open-ended future . |
| 5 | In the ornate new council chamber , Mayor Murphy was trying to convince the city council that to be a real Edwardian Mayor he ought to wear mayoral robes , as they did in England ; the newly extended hospital was bracing itself for additional accident cases ; and Hank Stych stood in the airport at Calgary waiting for a local plane to take him north to Tollemarche . |
| 6 | The incident precipitated three days of violence and looting that tarnished Miami 's reputation at a time when the city was preening itself for one of America 's premier sporting events , the Super Bowl . |
| 7 | Curtis , meanwhile , as the result of his meditations on how a federated empire might collectively discharge its duty to the backward races under British rule , had begun to reach the conclusion that the answer was to train them for eventual self-government . |
| 8 | The idea was to use her for short patrols inshore and around the large estuaries and harbours of the south Coast . |
| 9 | and so this guy was selling it for forty , Vicky ordered her canoe there and he was quite a young man and so alright she said hi big boy how about letting me have it for thirty five if you 're willing to ha are you willing to haggle I mean my friend did buy a whole canoe he sort of |