Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proposals in the accord were for general improvements in the judicial system , alterations to the electoral system to prevent fraud , decentralization for a participative democracy , and the modernization of state institutions . |
| 2 | Canadian international Forrest , 24 , faces a three-match ban after referee Ron Groves confirmed the red card was for serious foul play . |
| 3 | So in Banbury and in Newport local Unionists were assured that the deal was for one election only . |
| 4 | Dixie says the deal was for three . |
| 5 | Llanthony Warehouse was for many years a showroom and store for Western Trading Co . |
| 6 | The minimum investment was for 100 shares at a price of £1 per share , but , as the initial payment was only 50p per share , members of the public could become shareholders of British Gas for a down-payment as low as £50 . |
| 7 | Lot of shop lifting was for that reason . |
| 8 | Their search was for empirical regularity . |
| 9 | The force 's mandate was for six month , and could be extended for a further year at most . |
| 10 | Many authors felt that the best way to structure diabetic care in general practice was for general practitioners to set up miniclinics in order to create the ‘ protected time ’ needed for assessment of a complex condition . |
| 11 | It is not always easy to balance challenges and skills even when working with a single child on a relatively straightforward task ; for these class teachers working with mixed ability groups in settings where the normal practice was for several different tasks in different curriculum areas to be undertaken simultaneously , an adequate balance between challenges and skills throughout the group had to remain an aspiration rather than an achievement . |
| 12 | A new motor car was for many a luxury that would have to wait for another day . |
| 13 | But difficult as the schism was for many workers and indeed activists to understand or justify , its far-reaching ramifications had already begun to emerge . |
| 14 | The term was for 26 years paying a one-twelfth to the Lord , save for the first six months when no claim would be made . |
| 15 | The partial answer to this dilemma was for most of Laura 's exotic ideas to be available in a special , higher priced ‘ Decorator Collection ’ . |
| 16 | This action was for wrongful dismissal but the same principle applies in a claim for damages for personal injury . |
| 17 | The scullers raced in single sculls and the racing here was also of a high standard , but there was not an outstanding single sculler and the places at stake were for quadruple and double sculls . |
| 18 | If that sounds nauseatingly juvenile , it had a certain aptness in the Fifties when marriage was for many an institution for recreating one 's childhood and centering life once more on the nursery . |
| 19 | Thus while philanthropic work was for some integral to their feminist beliefs , for others it represented merely a diversion from household cares , a sublimation of other desires , or , and this was probably the most common motivation , a socially acceptable way for both married women and their daughters to engage in purposeful work . |
| 20 | ‘ Our original proposal was for 840 acres but we 're now going to file an amended proposal for 750 acres , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Often their request for help was for further insemination and not to treat the actual sexual problem . |
| 22 | The new projection was for 1.8 per cent ( rather than 2.2 per cent ) real growth in 1992 , and 3.1 per cent in 1993 . |
| 23 | The initial plan was for one 24-hour stoppage , but if management did not respond this could turn into a rolling programme of one-day strikes . |
| 24 | The plan was for another military road over the watershed between Dee and Spey . |
| 25 | It said : ‘ If it becomes known that UK companies have supplied equipment for manufacture of munitions we could truthfully say that when the licences were issued we had no reason to believe that this civilian equipment was for other than general industrial purposes . ’ |
| 26 | Eagle Trust claimed that WS had originally believed that the equipment was for petrochemical use , but in March 1990 the management had become suspicious and had informed the British authorities . |
| 27 | The aviary was for injured birds before releasing them into the wild . |
| 28 | In January 1940 the requirement was for eleven cars , but this sometimes rose to fifteen , and a special siding was constructed at Rossall . |
| 29 | With this view , the Conservatives in the inter-war period were for small-scale government and low taxes — the less done by government , the better and cheaper . |
| 30 | Madeira wine was for many years the favourite wine of the Russian Court , and one of the Krohn family had been food-taster to the Tsar . |