Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The anger he saw in her eyes was camouflage for the fear she felt . |
| 2 | The original basis of liability under the rule was responsibility for the creation of an exceptional risk which happened to ripen into injury . |
| 3 | Yeah had a bit of you know , I did n't busy place and Friday was lasagne for the Ininghams |
| 4 | These observations differ from earlier findings in which scid mice were host for the same TCR -β transgene . |
| 5 | Short was co-driver for the British hope David Llewellin , but on Tuesday their British-prepared Toyota Celica crashed out of the five-day , 2,000-mile event . |
| 6 | It also , in those days was mileage for the tyres was paid on the number of miles run per tyre , so at the end of the month you could record , you knew what tyres were on a certain bus , you knew of how many miles that bus had done , so you recorded that particular tyre on that bus had run so many miles and it was that that we paid for our tyres that way . |
| 7 | For while Hartnell was couture for the older royals , its demise followed the shocking news that the higher-profile Edina Ronay house , which counts Princess Diana and the Duchess of York among its customers , is in serious trouble . |
| 8 | CNRS was host for the meeting partly because of its desire to take a leading role in Europe 's changing research landscape . |
| 9 | Mr Travers , who drew his figures from public expenditure White Papers , said the sectors that enjoyed the biggest rises were education for the under-fives ( up nearly 90 per cent ) and children with special needs , both favourite Labour targets . |
| 10 | An important item in this trade was timber for the construction of ships . |
| 11 | The result of this year 's competition was victory for The Lords , with The Winners second , The Stars third , The Dukes fourth , Jackie 's Team fifth , and THE Team sixth . |
| 12 | His protest that this was the worst kind of Victorian colonialism was short-hand for the conviction that the action had played into the hands of all the enemies of the West . |
| 13 | It led the Bishop of Hippo ( near Carthage ) to write soon afterwards his great book The City of God , the first philosophy of history , in order to rebut the charge that the sack of Rome was punishment for the abandonment by its citizens of their traditional pagan gods . |
| 14 | [ In the Court of Appeal Pickin successfully argued that this case was authority for the House of Lords refusing to give effect to a private Act obtained by fraud . ] |
| 15 | Now if the matter arises on taxation in this way , it seems that a loan , the trial judgment was given on the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one , a minute of order was prepared and signed by counsel for both the plaintiff and for the defendants and that was forwarded by the defendant 's solicitors to the plaintiff 's solicitors under cover of a letter dated the twenty third of April nineteen ninety one , er Mr who is the defendant 's solicitor in the third paragraph , had a letter wrote as follows I enclose a copy of the draft minute board , approved by Mr , he of course was counsel for the defendant , you are now , you , you were presumably now attend a sealed order . |
| 16 | Crawford 's first London stage play was Change for the Angel , at the small Arts Theatre Club , in Great Newport Street . |
| 17 | The dominant theme of this literature was concern for the well-being of the peasantry . |
| 18 | The dominant theme of this literature was concern for the well-being of the peasantry . |
| 19 | The next step was selection for the World Cup squad : ‘ Actually , I was lying in bed with ‘ flu on the Sunday morning of a squad session from which I had called off when Bill Hogg , the SRU secretary , telephoned to say that Iain Milne had been forced to withdraw . |
| 20 | In 1963 , however , Clark was champion for the first time , after winning a record seven rounds , and at 27 he became the youngest-ever world champion . |
| 21 | The weather was kind for the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of the Henley Golf Club which were held last weekend and large numbers of members and friends attended and were very appreciative of the arrangements which had been made . |