Example sentences of "was [art] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | That figure may slightly nonplus a reader nurtured in these Caledonian climes ; and his bewilderment will not be lessened when he discovers that £600 was the annual rent charged for the same accommodation in 1912 . |
| 2 | You stopped because you both decided it was the right thing to do for you at the time . |
| 3 | So it was indeed a classic nightmare where I dreamt that I was the only person searching for the child , and the only person who saw that this vast Argosy was down near the coastline , and I landed in a most difficult position near the aircraft and found nobody else about . |
| 4 | A white face was the only qualification required for work , modelling or hamming it up in a TV commercial . |
| 5 | Mr Luis Mardones was the only deputy elected for the Independent Groupings of the Canaries ( AIC ) . |
| 6 | Mr Luis Mardones was the only deputy elected for the Independent Groupings of the Canaries ( AIC ) . |
| 7 | Cardus was the only man left for Spain to cheer . |
| 8 | Except for Xanthe , Mercer was the only Lorrimore to surface for breakfast , and he came not to eat but to ask Emil to send trays through to his own private dining room . |
| 9 | Second , heroin was the first drug used for recreational purposes by 20 per cent of the snowball sample compared with only 8 per cent of known users . |
| 10 | The province can expect to see leading Danish players on the European team in Belfast , and the All England men 's doubles victory by Thomas Lund and Jon Holst-Christensen was the first European win for 10 years in that event . |
| 11 | Victoria Woodhull Claffin — later 19th Century free-thinking radical feminist who was the first woman to run for the office of United States President over 30 years before women 's suffrage . |
| 12 | Then came the real crux of the matter , which was the new requirement to qualify for a vote . |
| 13 | For instance , thirteen out of every fourteen jade axes from the British Isles were made of jadeite , and this was the predominant material used for the same purpose in France and Germany . |
| 14 | It was the main fuel used for large-scale cooking and faggots were brought into the city every day . |
| 15 | Even Shirley Christian 's relatively cosy interview with North for the New York Times on December 1st — an interview that gained in suspiciousness and oddity because it was the last North gave for two years — plunged suddenly into an action-man world . |
| 16 | There was a young woman waiting for Ellie and Madame as they stepped out of the elevator , which now only they occupied , on the very top floor . |
| 17 | The first is an uncomplicated piece of no great distinction ; the second , K.246 in C , was written for Countess Lützow of Salzburg : the third was a triple concerto written for three members of a wealthy local family , the Lodrons ; and the last , K.271 in E flat , was composed for a French lady virtuoso , Mlle Jeunehomme , who happened to be visiting Salzburg . |
| 18 | ‘ It was a marvellous privilege to play for Yorkshire and I enjoyed every minute of it , ’ he told me . |
| 19 | It was a marvellous programme to work for because you could do what you liked for it . |
| 20 | It was a marvellous programme to work for because you could do what you liked for it . |
| 21 | Margaret Gowing in her official history of the British post-war atomic programme said : ‘ Polonium was a little-known element needed for a vital component of the ( atomic ) bomb … after Harwell had made the first polonium , Windscale assumed production responsibility … |
| 22 | The importance of these earnings to elderly kin and to neighbours was a major factor accounting for working class women 's apparent lack of interest in crèches . |
| 23 | Even 4 September seemed an age ago now , part of a deluded past when she had believed her abduction was a simple crime committed for gain , when she had thought her release was imminent , her restoration to the pampered life she had led merely a matter of time and money . |
| 24 | It is probably a minority of medieval antifeminist writing that was meant to be taken literally rather than metaphorically ; even Jerome 's model diatribe was a rhetorical exercise designed for the refutation of Jovinianus and the assertion of the value of celibacy . |
| 25 | He was a tawny lion poised for the kill — and was she the prey ? |
| 26 | Mrs Freda Bastianelli , the mother of four-month-old twin boys , who has a house on the shoreline , complained that another year was a long time to wait for a possible cure . |
| 27 | He was a dangerous man to work for , was George , but he was a survivor . |
| 28 | He was a good man to have for a friend but a dangerous one to have for an enemy . |
| 29 | Given the significance of patronage in securing a promotion , or in placing an officer in a situation where he might have an opportunity to distinguish himself , and thus strengthen his claims to advancement , there was a good incentive to arrange for a transfer to another ship where favour might be expected . |
| 30 | We got specific money , in other words , the government flagged up that in the first year , there were going to be infrastructure costs , and so there was a specific allowance made for that , and we 've been recruiting gradually , not all at once , over a period of time , as the numbers of people coming into the community care system rise , we 've been recruiting new staff there . |