Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was for a short time privileged to share in the joy and vitality and the oneness with Almighty God in his Luo people ( Anne Marie will gladly give a talk and show slides to any interested groups in the North West . |
| 2 | The answer is , of course , that the position of a word boundary has some effect on the realisation of the phoneme ; this is one of the many cases in which the occurrence of different allophones can only be properly explained by making reference to units of grammar ( something which was for a long time disapproved of by many phonologists ) . |
| 3 | Er I merely want to comment on the erm apparent misunderstanding on my comments on windfalls earlier on , erm it has been suggested that we we 're tightening down on windfalls , was the quote actually used , erm , there is no intention in the local plan to er ignore the er windfalls , to actually deal with them in a different way than had happened in the past , clearly if sites come forward which are windfalls which are suitable in environmental terms then the City Council will give , as P B G one requires , the appropriate consideration to those applications , what I was merely saying this morning was the the likelihood of such windfalls coming forward , and the scale was clearly going to be substantially less than had occurred in the past , and the the figure of eighty a eighty a year , which was for a five year period , which was quoted to me , erm clearly would not be representative of my expectation of the future . |
| 4 | The other people in the restaurant , who might at other times have had stringent thoughts about race , or about white women publicly embracing black men ( or at least , not with such total lack of self-consciousness ) , were subdued — it could be seen from faces that showed tendencies to laugh too without reason to the demand of the occasion , which was for a total and uncritical abandon to happiness . |
| 5 | Peter Kite managing director of the centre 's owners , Active Learning and Leisure , announced yesterday 's sale , which was for an undisclosed sum . |
| 6 | My frustration came to a head when I read an advert in a well known weekly which was for an attractive 1948 Series One the price of which has VAT added How can this be ? |
| 7 | In those days , it never occurred to me but to employ my time as best I could , without any thought of ‘ going on the dole ’ , which was for the underprivileged . |
| 8 | The first two rounds of voting — in north Lebanon and the Bekaa on Aug. 23 , and in Beirut and Mount Lebanon on Aug. 30 — produced some wins for Hezbollah , an Islamic group aligned with Syrian policy-making which was for the first time participating in elections as a parliamentary party . |
| 9 | I had the right card , it was the card number five which was for the hot wash as , hot wax as well . |
| 10 | On the same day that Scott was appointed architect for the new India Office , 1st January , 1859 , came the opening of the controversy which was for the next thirty months to dominate the campaign to rebuild the Foreign Office . |
| 11 | Smith himself was for a few years a tutor at Christ Church , but in 1795 he resigned his studentship to become incumbent of Daventry ( a Christ Church living ) , returning to Christ Church as a canon in 1807 . |
| 12 | Nell stayed as she was for a long time , then had an inspiration . |
| 13 | At least — ’ she gave a rueful laugh ‘ — she was for the first twelve years of her life . |
| 14 | ‘ So everything was for the best , Maggie ? ’ |
| 15 | One was for an initial payment of £2,053.27 . |
| 16 | ( One story , which entered his official state Department biography , has it that he told several students that his own rise to the position of ambassador showed what great opportunities there were for the young in Iran . |
| 17 | Goram , exceptional throughout his reintroduction to the side , was forced to muddy his tracksuit bottoms in response to the first of Amokachi 's many attacks on the break and the more Rangers pressed forward , the more gaps there were for the Belgian side to exploit from a midfield they dominated . |
| 18 | In university circles there was for a long time little sympathy for the innovators , and in his younger days Nietzsche 's own tastes inclined the same way . |
| 19 | In the fifth century there was for a Greek state only one major source of income apart from taxing one 's own citizens or allies : Persia . |
| 20 | But when , after those two years , the valley had almost imperceptibly widened and there was for the first time , not those black enclosing cliffs , but the vista of a normal life , even of happiness , a landscape over which it was possible to believe the sun might shine , she had become unwittingly embroiled in the racial politics of her school . |
| 21 | What little excitement there was for the colourful Cagliari crowd of 30,000 came from the Italian midfielder Giannini . |
| 22 | But the Whigs had miscalculated how much sympathy there was for the High Church position . |
| 23 | His first run there was for the Scottish Students in the match against their English counterparts at Myreside the day before the Calcutta Cup match in January . |
| 24 | They were for the gentle grey shirehorse , whose death he blamed on himself . |
| 25 | Mr Smith , whose team are 6–1 outsiders for the Cup , agrees with the bookmakers in rating Liverpool even stronger favourites tonight than they were for the first meeting . |
| 26 | The Bioscope very much approved of the description of the movies as ‘ the drama of the masses , and went on to argue that the whole beauty of the movies was that they were for the first time providing amusement , ‘ the greatest factor in the life of.the masses ’ , to ‘ the millions ‘ who had been ‘ passed over for so many years and considered of no account ’ . |
| 27 | That particular luxury did not appear until M. Georges Nagelmackers had copied Mr Pullman and introduced them in 1883 , and even then they were for the rich who could afford to travel on the ‘ Orient Express ’ . |
| 28 | I 'd assumed without thinking that they were for the straddling dock cranes to run on . |
| 29 | Both of them were for a free market , the introduction of Lithuania 's own currency and withdrawal of Russian troops . |
| 30 | It was for a long time a small and cheap organisation . |