Example sentences of "was for " in BNC.
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| 31 | Kitchen travail was for reward ; now you get gratification without labour . |
| 32 | His successful bid was for £190,000 although he had made a higher prior offer which had been turned down . |
| 33 | It is also an unprecedented legal recognition here of a problem the very existence of which was for many decades denied by a Communist state claiming to be founded upon the interests of the working class . |
| 34 | From the publication , in 1946 , of his book The Affairs of the Poles Osmanczyk 's constant call was for Polish-German reconciliation as one of the essential steps towards the creation of a new , permanently conflict-free Europe . |
| 35 | Sir Patrick said the brochure had a dual aim : to show potential recruits that government legal work was responsible and worthwhile ; and to dispel the notion that the service was for lawyers who had not made it in other parts of the profession . |
| 36 | For a start , much of that earlier patronage was for the benefit of the patrons and not of the public . |
| 37 | The FISA president said the sanction against Mansell was for this breach of security rules and had nothing to do with his failure to stop after a black flag was waved at him three times . |
| 38 | 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 ’ . |
| 39 | The club was a meeting place for musicians of his era , and Archer Street was for many years the centre of the British dance music business . |
| 40 | ‘ Our original proposal was for 840 acres but we 're now going to file an amended proposal for 750 acres , ’ he said . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | But to be made a deacon was for the first time to profess before a multitude that the soul undertook the cause of God in a special ministry , and for the first time to feel sent to an apostolic work . |
| 43 | Ulysses was for Eliot in 1921 ‘ the greatest work of the age ’ . |
| 44 | What , for Lawrence , was to be embraced , was for Eliot a torment . |
| 45 | Marlowe in that year was for Eliot positively either a major atheist or a major Christian , but the enchantments of Faustus were Baudelaire 's paradis artificiels . |
| 46 | The final curtain as it was for so many cinemas at this time , before they became cash and carry warehouses for bowls and colanders , brushes , clothes pegs , cloths and uncountable tons of things being produced in orange plastic . |
| 47 | The most forceful shout was for a Toyota truck on a stand in a showroom . |
| 48 | Whereas prior to 1954 the male homosexual was for Mailer a rather facile symbol of evil ( above , Chapter 3 ) , now he epitomizes a more insidious and actual kind of evil : the undoing of otherness , and a drive towards undifferentiation echoing biblical ‘ confusion ’ . |
| 49 | One resolution to the problem was for the other to submit to the one , the woman to the man , the weaker man to the stronger man . |
| 50 | it was for men that he felt the hot , flushing , roused attraction which a man is supposed to feel for the other sex … the male physique had a fascination for him , and for the female physique he felt only a fondness … |
| 51 | It was a little Mini van that he ran around in saying it was for the band but really he had it because he thought it was ‘ a good shagging mobile ’ with just enough space in the back for ‘ entertaining ’ . |
| 52 | It was for this reason that he felt compelled to offer the Liberals the alternative vote , an electoral system which would have the effect of entrenching the third party as part of the political system . |
| 53 | The nucleus of each village was for the most part made up of the Frelimo guerillas who had fought in the liberation struggle . |
| 54 | The reminiscing continued — the deaths of friends , one man marching alone through the night , the terrible hard labour it was for some men to die , night marches from one safe house to another , the rain , the wet , the damp , the cold of waiting for an ambush in one place for hours . |
| 55 | They often discussed his family together and how hard it was for a single man to bring up children alone . |
| 56 | ‘ It was for nothing , Daddy . ’ |
| 57 | This hypothesis was for a long time a subject of much contention in anthropology and is not even now entirely laid to rest , but the meagre historical record we possess can not possibly support such an assertion . |
| 58 | Picasso 's extensive series of variations on Las Meninas was produced in 1957 , but even if Gironella knew of them when he himself began to work on versions of Velázquez ( which is highly unlikely , as Picasso 's paintings were not exhibited until 1959 ) ; even though their interest in the art of the past at that point in their careers was for both , perhaps , a rejection of abstraction ; and even though both can in some way be defined as exiled from their Spanish roots , as outsiders looking in — — yet the results are widely divergent . |
| 59 | Their quest was for the perfect formula . ' |
| 60 | One way of evading restrictions was to find sinecure posts for good players ; one man was given the job of checking the advertising posters for the club , though the most common trick was for club directors , who were often substantial employers , to find part-time or simply bogus jobs for which payment was made . |