Example sentences of "was a [noun sg] for the [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | The result was a blow for the Liberal Democrats , who polled nearly 1,000 votes less than in the 1987 election . |
| 6 | Touring on the Riviera was a must for the well-to-do of the 1920s and '30s . |
| 7 | Some people declared that it was a triumph for the new laws , bless them . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The thesis of revolution was a pyre for the bourgeois values which clearly belonged to ‘ the establishment ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ The drama lasted no more than l0 minutes but it was a nightmare for the poor mother . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The January 1980 Annual General Meeting was a portent for the next three years , leading to the Bondholders buyout . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In another sense , it was a manifesto for the 1960s . |
| 18 | He said it was a playground for the idle rich and ought to be used to grow crops for the proletariat . |
| 19 | If ever there was a case for the old adage ‘ horses for courses ’ , ‘ Strip Search ’ was it ! |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It was a common enough tragedy , but it was a job for the Juvenile Bureau not for him and the sooner one of their officers arrived the better . |
| 22 | The trial and disgrace of Olavide by the Inquisition in 1778 was a penalty for the tactless folly of a man who could not resist mocking superstitious priests ; its significance is that the Inquisition could still destroy a leading statesman . |
| 23 | Salisbury did not share half the views held by those who accepted his lead , but he was a focus for the increasing Unionist discontent , a respectable public figure acting from the highest motives ; by 1921 he had made the diehard opposition a formidable force . |
| 24 | It was like a drain where the dregs and filth exuded from all the other prisons in the land had been gathered together ; the human refuse brushed aside and locked up in an institution that was a dustbin for the unwanted and unmanageable . |
| 25 | The outcome of the civil war was a victory for the right wing forces and the establishment of a military regime under Franco . |
| 26 | It became imperative for the new latitudinarian archbishops to avoid countenancing the view that the Revolution was a victory for the intolerant Anglicanism of Sancroft 's and Proast 's type . |
| 27 | Delighted Mr Mitchell , 32 , from Birmingham , said : ‘ Ours was a victory for the paying customer . |
| 28 | At one end was a compartment for the two armed guards who always travelled with a consignment of this kind , and in the partition between their compartment and the portion where the bullion was stored , there were portholes , or bull 's eyes , of stout glass , so that the interior was always under their view . |
| 29 | Now the Supreme Court declared that decision that the constitution gives the power to regulate interstate commerce to the national government , I E it was n't a matter for New York , it was n't a question of whether New York or New Jersey should control it , it was a matter for the federal government not for either of the states . |
| 30 | But two weeks ago the Liberal Democrats reversed their policy at their spring conference in Nottingham , making clear that abortion was a matter for the individual conscience . |