Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is vital never to grant them absolute rights over nomenclature , or you will end up with a child called Aspirin Muesli Harris as poor Tom was for the first week of his life , until it was overruled as being pagan by the Irish Catholic nurse . |
| 2 | The specific version of this hypothesis tested by SPAR was for the problem of anaphor resolution in the task of paraphrasing simple English stories . |
| 3 | The direct competition with the BBC was for the audience . |
| 4 | He maintained that the death of Christ was for the sins of all men against the first covenant . |
| 5 | Anne Lister was for the last fourteen years of her life the owner and occupant of Shibden Hall in Halifax . |
| 6 | As his Latin epitaph on the title page announced , Jonson Workes were for the select few , not only serious readers but also affluent and socially well-positioned readers . |
| 7 | By 1988 Britain was for the first time selling more to the EEC than to the rest of the world ( £47 billion out of £93.5 billion at 1991 prices ) . |
| 8 | Never loquacious , Iris was for the moment totally lost for words . |
| 9 | Although Japan was for the first time in a dominant position vis-à-vis China , the problem of disputed influence in Korea remained . |
| 10 | Cumberland was for the moment needed in England and after , to everyone 's relief , the discredited Field Marshal Wade had turned down the post of Commander-in-Chief in Scotland it was , on 24 December , accepted by Lieut-General Henry Hawley , known from his record as a disciplinarian as ‘ Hangman Hawley ’ . |
| 11 | Another winner from Newcastle was for the best overall score from the two rounds of golf which Steve Ridley , surveyor won . |
| 12 | He concluded that the questions and comments from Gary and Aggi were for the most part simply those necessary to conduct the bartering and maintain their cover . |
| 13 | Sommerfrische and Kurort were for the normal bourgeois ; traditionalist France and Italy still confirm today that annual liverishness was a bourgeois institution . |
| 14 | Some aid agencies and other concerned groups meanwhile suggested that the only solution to the problem of the looting by armed groups of food supplies arriving in Somalia was for the country to be " flooded " with food aid . |
| 15 | In Committee the alternative proposal advanced by the Hon. Member for Dumfries was for the powers the Scottish transport users consultative committee to be extended . |
| 16 | This poor soul , pallid and puffy on his bed after desperate vomiting , sick and quiet and unregarded ever since , spent and ulcered mind and spirit by what he had so mistakenly undertaken , Jerome was for the first time wholly pitiful . |
| 17 | So the rather heavy , stately movements of 2001 : A Space Odyssey to which the effects team of Kubrick himself , Wally Veevers , Douglas Trumbull , Con Pederson and Tom Howard were for the most part limited — except in the ‘ Stargate ’ section — by their simple , mechanical system ( no electronics , no computer for motion control or graphics ) were apt enough and perhaps fast enough . |
| 18 | The fact that all the workshops in WA and at least half of those in Victoria and New South Wales were for the double bed , shows the quality of knitters involved . |
| 19 | His first important conservation scheme in Leeds was for the conversion of St Paul 's House , a Moorish-style Victorian warehouse in Park Square , which he designed while an Associate at Booth Shaw and Partners in 1970 . |