Example sentences of "was [art] [noun sg] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Photographers were tending to adopt that method on every job , even if there was the opportunity for a natural approach . |
| 2 | Where the Colonel Generals , where the Colonels , where the Majors of Headquarters had failed , idiot buggers , there was the opportunity for an ambitious Captain to succeed . |
| 3 | One of these frontier issues was the concern for a New World Information and Communication Order ( NWICO ) which WACC embraced in 1980 , albeit with some reservations . |
| 4 | Where was the concern for the thousands not coming anywhere near the church and not caring about its ethos either , but who were bound to an eternity without God ? |
| 5 | There was also an American girl who was the interpreter for the two policemen . |
| 6 | And thirdly the objective was no longer what Marx had acclaimed the objective of er a party following his leadership should be , no longer the objective which Lenin , in the Russian Revolution , claimed was the objective for the Russian Bolshevik Party not a workers ' revolution which would then spread and become international , worldwide . |
| 7 | Although primary elections took place in several states during August , the contest which captured most public attention was the struggle for the Democratic nomination for governor of Georgia . |
| 8 | Precious , has choreography by Lea Anderson who was the compere for the recent Channel 4 series Tights ! |
| 9 | They were well placed to exert political pressure , for in 1753 Captain Robert Cunningham was the candidate for the parliamentary seat for this district , avowedly standing as a friend of the Duke of Argyll . |
| 10 | The 1991 budget , whose approval by end-1990 was the precondition for a crucial US$2,000 million IMF emergency lending package , was debated by the Assembly on Dec. 27-30 and eventually passed on Dec. 30 by 214 votes to 128 . |
| 11 | The major reason given for giving them the boot was the requirement for a shit-hot pitch when the Euro championships come round in 96 . |
| 12 | Nowhere was the call for a new attitude more clear than in the inquiry conducted at Manchester University by Michael Sadler and his associates and published in 1907 . |
| 13 | Either way it was the inspiration for the academic success that took him faster and further from the streets of his childhood than even his mother 's success in business had . |
| 14 | The NIF , generally seen as the effective power behind Bashir 's internal policies , was the inspiration for the continuing Islamization drive , which stood in the way of any prospect of a solution in the long-running civil war . |
| 15 | It was the quest for a greater managerial role which took Ian in 1989 to the York based confectionery giant , where he is one of two in-house solicitors . |
| 16 | ‘ June 1980 , I was pushing 20 and part of Orange Juice , an early stone Roses prototype whose return to music was the resolve for a bad Seventies hangover . |
| 17 | There was a local market every Thursday , and , in addition , each spring and summer Monpazier was the centre for a giant mushroom fair . |
| 18 | Good Friday was the day for a special trek to collect hot cross buns from favoured bakers and this custom has survived within the writer 's knowledge , with a trip from Saltash to collect the buns from Kelly Bray , ( but by car , not on foot as formerly ) . |
| 19 | Within this scheme of thought , anything which can not be controlled is labelled dangerous and marginal , particularly when society is working to preserve its unity and to develop more sophisticated systems of self-definition , as was the case for the Jewish community in Palestine following the exile . |
| 20 | Table 3.23 below shows that the unskilled and the semi-skilled manual workers made up a higher proportion of those receiving sickness or invalidity benefit than their size as a population group warranted ; the opposite was the case for the non-manual workers ; while the skilled manual workers ’ position as beneficiaries reflected their size as a group among the general population . |
| 21 | Finally there was the ticket for the left-luggage office at Paddington station , something that could only cross the Atlantic by hand . |
| 22 | One focus within the countryside lobby was the agitation for a green belt around London . |
| 23 | Such was the hope for the last days , and this was the hope that the Christians had seen fulfilled since the resurrection and ascension of Jesus . |
| 24 | As governor , Somes was the figurehead for an aggressive and ruthless campaign aimed at securing government recognition for the New Zealand Company . |
| 25 | With the titans of 1945 gone , the stumbling old guard of the Conservative Party finally tripped up : it was the chance for the lower orders of the middle classes to bite back . |
| 26 | DARLINGTON Memorial Hospital was the scene for a candlelit vigil last night in protest at NHS underfunding . |
| 27 | A School sportsground in Gloucester was the scene for the latest show by the No Limits stunt team . |
| 28 | This was the stimulus for a new wave of conflict primarily concerned with union recognition and the right to belong to a union . |
| 29 | A wether was the word for a castrated sheep , and thus he made clear his difference . |
| 30 | Bracing was the word for the English seaside , Auguste had decided . |