Example sentences of "was a [noun sg] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as the Biesbosch on the Rhine delta was a centre for the Dutch underground opposition to Hitler , so the English wetlands have a long history as centres of resistance . |
| 2 | There was a trend for the multi-national corporations to set up their own courses on a European rather than purely British basis … |
| 3 | Chief among the reforms was a provision for the direct election of Assembly delegates . |
| 4 | Whatever the story-line there was a hero for a new era . |
| 5 | Previously , a series of guitar-based seminars in the United States ( by Howard Roberts in particular ) had provided evidence that there was a requirement for a full-time vocational guitar training programme . |
| 6 | Polanski used the club as his base and as an access point to its abounding supply of beautiful women ; just as Hefner 's Playboy mansion in Los Angeles was a magnet for the bright young things of Hollywood , so Lownes established a social whirl that attracted the cream and the elite of off-beat London society , plus some very famous names , eventually to include Nicholson himself . |
| 7 | The result was a blow for the Liberal Democrats , who polled nearly 1,000 votes less than in the 1987 election . |
| 8 | Touring on the Riviera was a must for the well-to-do of the 1920s and '30s . |
| 9 | Some people declared that it was a triumph for the new laws , bless them . |
| 10 | Norwich 's victory was a triumph for the tactical surprise sprung by manager Walker , who deployed a sweeper to curb the threat of Villa dangermen Dean Saunders and Dalian Atkinson , who have been running amok in the last two months . |
| 11 | The thesis of revolution was a pyre for the bourgeois values which clearly belonged to ‘ the establishment ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ The drama lasted no more than l0 minutes but it was a nightmare for the poor mother . ’ |
| 13 | Erm when one of our friends , who was a writer for the local press , headlined it , The cutter who walked a thousand miles together , before he got called up . . |
| 14 | Filming just the ELR train scenes took two and a half days , one shooting finishing at 04.00 hours , and all for about six minutes of the 90 minute drama Angels , which was a pilot for a possible TV series . |
| 15 | They were hardworking people too , who were glad to find employment in the building-trade , the mines , on the streets and making roads , or in the factories ; Scotland was a sanctuary for the homeless , the oppressed and the victims of injustice and intolerance . |
| 16 | His third publication was a proposal for a phonetic alphabet in which related sounds were denoted by related symbols ; this appeared in the Royal Society 's Philosophical Transactions ( 1686 ) . |
| 17 | This was a proposal for a loose federation of locally based groups ; NICRA , however , was a centralised organisation based mainly in Belfast . |
| 18 | Where Ireland 's performance was a fanfare for a bright future , England 's was more like a requiem mass . |
| 19 | From eighty six to eighty nine he was planning spokesperson for Portsmouth City Council and in nineteen eighty nine he was a candidate for the Euro election fo for and East Hants , coming second with fifty one thousand votes . |
| 20 | It was a night for the homeless to lie down and die ; and for luckier people to sit close to their fires and thank God they were at home . |
| 21 | The January 1980 Annual General Meeting was a portent for the next three years , leading to the Bondholders buyout . |
| 22 | There was a tendency for the mucosal pepsin values to be higher at day 7 than at day 3 , which , although not statistically significant in this study , was also seen in a smaller , preliminary study in which a significant change was shown . |
| 23 | In another sense , it was a manifesto for the 1960s . |
| 24 | He said it was a playground for the idle rich and ought to be used to grow crops for the proletariat . |
| 25 | This was a showcase for a wide variety of young British musicians and bands currently working outside the mainstream of rock and pop . |
| 26 | As far as er the honourable gentleman for Edinburgh Central is concerned , he said there was a case for a wider inquiry into the auditing o of companies , well that is not something specifically called for er by Bingham although I acknowledge that a case can be made for that but I think we want to be extremely careful before extending that in the way that he and the honourable member for Great Grimsby proposed beyond the direct er responsibility to the members or the owners of the company . |
| 27 | Anthony Bradley , emeritus professor of constitutional law at Edinburgh University , said there was a case for a double-stage inquiry which first examined the principle or case for change and the second to study how changes could be made with the minimum dislocation or waste of expenditure . |
| 28 | If ever there was a case for the old adage ‘ horses for courses ’ , ‘ Strip Search ’ was it ! |
| 29 | As we have seen , a broadening of library skills to " study skills " was a goal for the new deputy head , and both the proposal document and the minutes of the reconstituted committee are evidence of his relative success . |
| 30 | Central to the committee 's 50 recommendations was a call for a national forestry strategy , to assess what types of forests were required , and how best to manage existing woodland . |