Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [indef pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Implicitly , the programme was one for the reform of the existing empire rather than its overthrow . |
| 2 | More people owned motor cars than previously : by 1956 there was one car for every three people in the United States ; in France and Britain the figure was one for every thirteen people . |
| 3 | There were ripples of self-satisfied laughter , as if to have such a mad dream was something for which they could congratulate themselves . |
| 4 | The adjustment factor was one for the under 65 group and three for the over 65 group . |
| 5 | He was a competent scientist with a modest and helpful nature ; the curatorial role was one for which he was well suited . |
| 6 | But the longer-term victory was one for central government and its determined custodians . |
| 7 | Their life was one for which she was very unfitted , and her gigantic effort to enjoy it struck him as a piece of self-deception . |
| 8 | They did not act since the case was one for the Russian authorities alone . |
| 9 | Reading him at his NME peak , you got the impression he never cared what Keef or Ron reckoned , nor that the rock 'n' roll lifestyle was anything for rock writers to aspire to . |