Example sentences of "[pron] was [noun sg] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was secretary for seven year eh . |
| 2 | Twelve and thirteen and I was cook for four years there . |
| 3 | On Monday there was the English paper — mainly Twelfth Night , which was money for old rope as I had played Feste at school . |
| 4 | At 9.03 pm on June 21,1982 Diana produced the son and heir which was cause for national rejoicing . |
| 5 | From 1919 to 1948 she was secretary for social training there , and later published privately a booklet on its history . |
| 6 | She was minister for social action in the Pol Pot era and is regarded as one of the main theoreticians of the party . |
| 7 | While she was doing so , she was company for little Sandy , who was just six months old and still in his pram , the image of his daddy , Bruce Mackenzie . |
| 8 | Despite her love of exercise , her health had been poor since her early adulthood and she was bedridden for many years . |
| 9 | Suddenly she was doing for silver-haired women of matronly stature what Joan Collins had done for the middle aged . |
| 10 | MEMBERS of Newry Drama Festival and friends have held a dinner in Newry Arts Centre to honour Owen Mooney , who was chairman for 27 years . |
| 11 | Confusingly , it was another Richard Hutchinson , of the City and later of Stepney , who was co-treasurer for sick and wounded soldiers , widows , and orphans from 1643 to 1660 and a judge for imprisoned debtors in 1653–4 , and who served as co-paymaster of the navy under the treasurers in 1688–71 , appearing in the latter part of Pepys 's diary . |
| 12 | Some of the beef classes were judged by an Argentinian , M Rodman , who said that he was particularly impressed with the easy-to-manage British breeds like the Angus and Hereford , and that there was scope for wider use of them in his country . |
| 13 | When able men occupied the professorial chairs , there was scope for immense development . |
| 14 | He also said that in the current , 1992 , fiscal year new lending would rise to $23,000-25,000 million , and that there was scope for considerable loans to the Soviet Union . |
| 15 | By the mid-1960s the need was becoming urgent for an overhaul of the traditional tribunals in which the more serious indictable crimes were tried before a High Court Judge , part-time Recorder or chairman of Quarter Sessions , and in 1966 the Government decided that there was substance for another Royal Commission . |
| 16 | At first there was support for this construction from some liberal quarters , encouraged by the government 's commitment to ‘ eliminate ’ over-crowding . |
| 17 | All these studies of the transition from school to work discussed so far had assumed that there was work for young people to enter . |
| 18 | Unsavoury characters lurked at fairs and with the crowds jostling , and the dark , there was cover for more than pickpocketing . |
| 19 | From the early 1780s onwards an increasingly elaborate network of agents and informers kept foreigners and even many important figures in the government under surveillance , and from 1782 there was provision for dangerous political prisoners to be held in complete isolation in special underground cells . |
| 20 | It moved to new buildings in 1930 in Ruskin Road , where there was provision for 360 pupils . |
| 21 | There was provision for any line constructed under both the 1902 and 1903 Acts , shown as single track on the Deposited Plans , to be laid as double track , provided that certain necessary road widenings were carried out . |
| 22 | And then there was money for maimed soldiers , for what they called visited persons , which was the plague , fire and candles for the courts of guards , that was paying for fire and candles for all the little sentinel posts round Oxford . |
| 23 | There was money for silly things . |
| 24 | But when the South lost the war , and there was equality for black people , Uncle Elias left America . |
| 25 | There was room for eight cows in here and every stall was full , but he could see no sign of the half-gipsy girl . |
| 26 | The Association 's chairman , Paul Bell , said there were signs of confidence creeping back into the market but there was room for additional measures if a fullblown recovery was to be seen . |
| 27 | There was room for twelve children . |
| 28 | Some good foresters were at present obtaining 60% of their income from the sale of timber so there was room for better management . |
| 29 | I discovered there was room for 10 bells , so it was just too tempting . |
| 30 | Oresme 's analysis shows that , within the scholastic tradition , there was room for new ideas , even if they were no more than conjectures . |