Example sentences of "[was/were] [noun sg] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Complete this sentence : If I were dictator for a day … |
| 2 | Complete this sentence : If I were dictator for a day … |
| 3 | Like the frottole they were music for a wide public and , as with the frottole , the printing-presses multiplied their popularity by producing them in alternative forms . |
| 4 | The coverage of the new business park was encouraging , however , as it showed that Scotswood had not been forgotten , and there was hope for a better future . |
| 5 | There was provision for a general exchequer ( i.e. , rate support ) grant to Counties and County Boroughs , to cover losses on the rates and total losses on grants , including payments towards the salaries of medical officers of health , public vaccinators etc . |
| 6 | The relevant facts are stated in the judgment of the court ( Cockburn C.J. , Wightman and Blackburn JJ. ) , delivered by BLACKBURN J. : In this case it appeared on the trial that the defendant was agent for a Mrs. Bennett , who was non-resident owner of houses in a district subject to a local Act . |
| 7 | All this was shorthand for a simple warning : that if the Syrians pull out of west Beirut , the militias would go to war again in its streets , and there would be nothing the Christians could do about it . |
| 8 | The banging stopped , and there was peace for a moment . |
| 9 | All the Board of Education could do was aim for a minimum of half-time school provision by Easter . |
| 10 | But that there was need for a substantial change in British society was a widespread conclusion . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've spent all my life in general PR , but it was about eight years ago I decided that there was room for a specialist agency , not really a PR firm , which was concerned entirely with government relations . |
| 12 | At last there was room for a central bureau of information , which went a long way to reducing the confusion caused by overlapping responsibilities . |
| 13 | Mr Ainslie noted that there was still too much geographic focus on where business was carried out within the company despite the international nature of the business and that there was room for a more unified focus . |
| 14 | Oh no it was a that would be a misnomer if ever there was one , because there was room for a table and four chairs and perhaps a settee and that was it . |
| 15 | Second , although Ellis and Muller found no difference between their distinctiveness and observation training conditions , there was evidence for a superiority of the distinctiveness group over one given equivalence training in which they had to apply one label to half of the shapes and another label to the rest . |
| 16 | But then he always was game for a laugh . |
| 17 | Back in civilian life he was foreman for a Darlington decorating firm , Jack Stead , and the couple moved into the town 's Rockingham Street . |
| 18 | And it was a starter , it was soup for a starter , and it was |
| 19 | Whilst I had nothing in the way of academy to display , I had won an open competition at the YMCA Baghdad Tennis Tournament , and was scrum-half for a 15 that was scratched up to play odd sides like the Palestine Police , or a crew from a Red Sea sloop on a visit . |
| 20 | It 's a concern for the tobacco industry , because right from the days they started targeting women , earlier on in the century , the slogan was reach for a Lucky erm ma , not for a sweet . |
| 21 | You would think it was cause for a massive celebration . |
| 22 | Here was cause for a new constitutional theory that would ease the liberal orthodoxy aside as at odds with the facts in order to describe , explain , and laud , the essentials of the new liberal-democratic constitution — a constitution in which there was an uneasy , and ultimately unstable , mix of the limited government of liberalism with the popular participation and equality of democracy . |
| 23 | There was silence for a moment or two and then , like the voice of doom , Frau Nordern spoke again . |
| 24 | There was silence for a few moments . |
| 25 | There was silence for a moment after the front door too slammed , and then George said carefully , ‘ I would prefer you not to discuss our disagreements with the children . |
| 26 | There was silence for a few seconds and then he said : ‘ And she 's your sister , is she ? ’ |
| 27 | There was silence for a minute . |
| 28 | There was silence for a while . |
| 29 | There was silence for a moment , and then Millie lifted her head as she said , ‘ He … he called me funny name . |
| 30 | There was silence for a moment , then the living-room door opened and Dolly heard him say , ‘ What 's up , Bessie ? ’ |