Example sentences of "was an [noun sg] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was an invitation for the whole family . |
| 2 | Moreover , the problem was not confined to one city ( London ) , it was an issue for the whole country : Belfast , Clydeside , Merseyside and a range of industrial and port areas , and city centres as at Sheffield , Coventry , Plymouth , Hull , Bristol and certain cathedral cities . |
| 3 | Sometimes the Ashleys mixed their French and English friends with amusing results , such as the occasion when they invited Terence Conran and his wife Caroline , the cookery writer , who were inveighed against by their French dinner companions , claiming it was an audacity for the English to write about food as they knew nothing about it . |
| 4 | Since the election had been fought on the issue of Protection , there was an argument for the two Free Trade parties-Labour and the Liberals-joining together in a coalition . |
| 5 | For many years he was a member of the president 's committee , and was an examiner for the triple qualification and the fellowship . |
| 6 | He was an examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons for over forty-two years , treasurer for eleven , and president in 1887–9 . |
| 7 | , Henry ( 1858–1913 ) , socialist and journalist , was born 30 January 1858 in Hungerford , Berkshire , the son of a village blacksmith , who was an invalid for the last twenty years of his life , and his wife , the daughter of an agricultural labourer . |
| 8 | Above the cornice was an attic for the appropriate dedicatory inscription , while a large sculptural group surmounted the whole arch , usually in the form of a triumphal car with four or six horses flanked at the corners by statues . |