Example sentences of "was the [noun sg] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | There was also an American girl who was the interpreter for the two policemen . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Precious , has choreography by Lea Anderson who was the compere for the recent Channel 4 series Tights ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Finally there was the ticket for the left-luggage office at Paddington station , something that could only cross the Atlantic by hand . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A School sportsground in Gloucester was the scene for the latest show by the No Limits stunt team . |
| 15 | Bracing was the word for the English seaside , Auguste had decided . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | RAF Little Rissington was the base for the Central Flying School during the war . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Worcester was the site for the first and last of the Civil War battles and today it calls itself ‘ the Civil War City ’ . |
| 20 | In its absence he continued to pursue ‘ Fun ’ which was the theme for the 1953–4 Chelsea Arts Ball . |
| 21 | ‘ Quality of Tuition ’ was the theme for the 20th Education Conference . |
| 22 | This was the signal for the general discontent to erupt into action . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Sandown in Surrey was the venue for the two new Red rock ads that are part of a new £2 million Taunton campaign . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Prague was the venue for the European Cup in June . |
| 29 | THE Barbican Centre was the venue for the Ecumenical Mission to York supported by 300 churches of all denominations in the York area . |
| 30 | IN THE late 1970s , Sichuan was the seed-bed for the agricultural reforms that Deng Xiaoping ( a native Sichuanese ) later spread throughout China . |