Example sentences of "was the [noun sg] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Precious , has choreography by Lea Anderson who was the compere for the recent Channel 4 series Tights ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Finally there was the ticket for the left-luggage office at Paddington station , something that could only cross the Atlantic by hand . |
| 10 | Bracing was the word for the English seaside , Auguste had decided . |
| 11 | He was , however , most comfortable in the theatre and perhaps his greatest success was the music for the Royal Shakespeare Company 's dramatization of Dickens 's Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 12 | RAF Little Rissington was the base for the Central Flying School during the war . |
| 13 | It has recently been suggested that another major motive for fifth-century Athenian interest in the west was the desire for the abundant shipbuilding timber of southern Italy ( cp . |
| 14 | This was the signal for the general discontent to erupt into action . |
| 15 | In Rabbi Cohen 's the exodus followed very soon after the last Amen , for the Rabbi spent little time in idle conversation and his withdrawal from the room was the signal for the other worshippers to leave . |
| 16 | The tallest , heaviest boys were in the A group ; the next size down was B and so on until F. F was the group for the real tinies , the handful of Alec Davidsons who were mostly in first year . |
| 17 | On the first Wednesday morning of every month — with the exception of the months in which Easter and Christmas fell — it was the custom for the incumbent pastor to give his own account of the massacre , or read out an account left by a predecessor . |
| 18 | In the Summer , the University was the venue for the Annual Conference of the British Educational Research Association , which was attended by over 250 researchers from throughout the UK and overseas . |
| 19 | Prague was the venue for the European Cup in June . |
| 20 | THE Barbican Centre was the venue for the Ecumenical Mission to York supported by 300 churches of all denominations in the York area . |
| 21 | IN THE late 1970s , Sichuan was the seed-bed for the agricultural reforms that Deng Xiaoping ( a native Sichuanese ) later spread throughout China . |
| 22 | The likelihood of added costs was the basis for the dissenting Speech of the Lord Chancellor on the admission of such material and Lord Browne-Wilkinson recognized the increased research burden on practitioners , which has obvious cost implications , as an objection of ‘ real substance ’ . |
| 23 | When the requirement was originally written erm and agreed in nineteen eighty seven all of the nations decided that erm we required a short take off and landing capability and that was based on the sort of the then cold war situation where the prospects of runways and airfields being very severely damaged in a sort of central European type of scenario , and therefore the possibility that there might be only very small operating strips available from those runways and that was the basis for the particular length that was decided at the time . |
| 24 | After all , that was the prospect for the vast majority of British children . |
| 25 | The exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art also shows his cameras including his very first Rolleiflex and his vital contact sheets ; showing how painstaking was the search for the right shot . |
| 26 | Belief that ultimate reality is timeless is deeply rooted in human thinking , and the origin of rational investigation of the world was the search for the permanent factors that lie behind the ever-changing pattern of events . |
| 27 | Tommaso Soldati was the stuccoist for the beautiful sala terrena — a sort of cross between a porte cochère and atmospheric garden room — and frescos were carried out by J. J. Stevens of Steinfels when , in 1717–24 , the palace was in the hands of the Kolowrats of Liebstein . |
| 28 | He was the model for the eponymous hero of Greenmantle ( 1916 ) by John Buchan , first Baron Tweedsmuir [ q.v . ] . |
| 29 | He was the model for the main character in the film , Altered States , and in his autobiographical novel , The Scientist , Lilly tells how he was given the drug by a doctor to cure a recurring migraine . |
| 30 | This was used in 1955 to enforce the ‘ Fourteen-Days rule ’ , which the BBC wanted to abandon , about broadcasting matters due for debate in Par-liament ; and it was the authority for the general ban on BBC ‘ editorializing ’ and on party political broadcasts outside the annual series agreed with the BBC . |