Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [was/were] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | For reasons which are too complicated to bother with , I had left Scotland , where I was for Christmas , on December 30th to go to the Isle of Wight and spend that most braw , bricht , moonlicht and Caledonian of celebrations , Hogmanay in the Deep South . |
| 2 | They stayed where they were for another minute or so , although Jack had to practically hold Ho down while they waited . |
| 3 | Floy stood where he was for a moment , looking up at the great , shining edifice that was Tara , Ireland 's Bright Palace , the great legendary Citadel of Light , the home of the Wolfkings … |
| 4 | It occurred to me , when I reached Julius Apollo 's door , that the Canadian would be standing where it was for the whole of the twenty-five minutes of its daily scheduled stop . |
| 5 | Or it was for the production crew working on the new children 's series The Borrowers . |
| 6 | ‘ I think he was better casting than I was for the part . |
| 7 | The competition was to take place in August and , although she was for ever panicking about what they still could n't do , she tended to overlook how far they had come from first beginnings . |
| 8 | But the Princess Sabatini was no more responsible for her egotistical grandson than she was for tonight 's overblown charity event . |
| 9 | Now that one was for ten years |
| 10 | ‘ So everything was for the best , Maggie ? ’ |
| 11 | All spring records except one were for the Downs , but all autumn records for the coast . |
| 12 | Surrounded as I was by supremely negative images of homosexuality such as ‘ the man in the dirty mac living out a lonely old age in a filthy garret ’ , I still felt that there was for me a clear choice between expressing or repressing my homosexual desire . |
| 13 | Mr Smith , whose team are 6–1 outsiders for the Cup , agrees with the bookmakers in rating Liverpool even stronger favourites tonight than they were for the first meeting . |
| 14 | The Bioscope very much approved of the description of the movies as ‘ the drama of the masses , and went on to argue that the whole beauty of the movies was that they were for the first time providing amusement , ‘ the greatest factor in the life of.the masses ’ , to ‘ the millions ‘ who had been ‘ passed over for so many years and considered of no account ’ . |
| 15 | Cigarettes were placed on the table in front of you which meant that they were for everybody . |
| 16 | I 'd assumed without thinking that they were for the straddling dock cranes to run on . |
| 17 | Iraq denied that the cylinders were part of a gun and maintained that they were for use in the petrochemical industry . |
| 18 | ODDLY enough , although he was for almost 50 years a pillar of the British dance band scene , by his own account Joe Crossman 's only popular acclaim was given to him in the United States for his beautiful alto saxophone solo on Stanley Black 's mid-Forties recording of Django Reinhardt 's ballad ‘ Nuages ’ . |
| 19 | It had been reported that Smith was to send a written offer to Celtic for Aitken , and although Smith would not specify the amount it became common knowledge that it was for around £300,000 . |
| 20 | He made it clear that it was for Sir Rufus to determine , and for you to comply . |
| 21 | It had taken a week to obtain , and had Hapsburg officialdom realized that it was for him rather than Aranyos it would have been unlikely to arrive before the end of the war . |
| 22 | Little did they know that it was for the pocket of Mr S. Caplan . |
| 23 | Moreover , MDC 's relatively modest housing programme for the initial area , its mixture of public and private provision and the fact that it has not displaced existing residents prevented housing becoming the political minefield for MDC that it was for LDDC . |
| 24 | It has been noted that it was for the same crimes that Klaus Barbie was sentenced by the courts in Lyon to life imprisonment . |
| 25 | Except that it was for adulterers , and murderers . |
| 26 | The reform of censorship ( 1865 ) was based on the principle that it was for the courts to decide when the press had broken the law , and pre-publication censorship was significantly reduced . |
| 27 | International law recognised that it was for each state to determine the conditions upon which it granted its nationality to ships , subject to there being a genuine link between the flag state and the vessel . |
| 28 | Not only would I have refrained from interfering with Thorpe J. 's decision on the footing that he had properly directed himself and that it was for him to decide , but because , even on the facts as they then were , I consider that his decision was plainly right . |
| 29 | Held , allowing the appeal , that where a driver was required to provide a specimen of blood or urine for one of the reasons set out in section 7(3) of the Act of 1988 , or claimed the right to provide such a specimen under section 8(2) , the constable was required by section 7(4) to inform him that the specimen was to be of blood or urine and that it was for the constable to decide which ; but that there was no requirement to invite the driver to express his preference for giving blood or urine ; that if the constable intended to require a specimen of blood , the driver was to be given the right to object on medical grounds to be determined by a medical practitioner or , if the requirement had been made under section 7(3) , for some other reason affording a ‘ reasonable excuse ’ within section 7(6) of the Act ; and that , accordingly , the requirement for the defendant to provide a specimen of blood had complied with section 7(4) ( post , pp. 885G–H , 890D–G , 891A–D , 895B–E , H — 896A ) . |
| 30 | The Attorney-General , while submitting that such use of Parliamentary material would breach article 9 , accepted that it was for the courts to determine the legal meaning and effect of article 9 . |