Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [was/were] [pron] for the " in BNC.
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1 | They did not act since the case was one for the Russian authorities alone . |
2 | Implicitly , the programme was one for the reform of the existing empire rather than its overthrow . |
3 | He told Nicola the programme was looking tired and the job was hers for the asking ’ |
4 | Yet after the success in India , it appeared that the job was his for the foreseeable future — only for the news to break at the beginning of the 1977 season that , when in Australia for the Centenary Test , he had used his position to recruit players to Kerry Packer 's World Series Cricket . |
5 | On the days he was going to see her , he woke up feeling that anything was possible , that the world was his for the asking . |