Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SE claimed that the cylinders were for an Iraqi petrochemical project and that their export had been approved by the UK 's Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) . |
| 2 | The first lots to come into the ring were for the annual lease of ewes . |
| 3 | The principal demands were for a 50 per cent increase in wages and pensions , a six-hour working day ( and no night-shifts ) for women , and the bringing to justice of those responsible for the deaths in Shkodër in April [ see p. 38160 ] . |
| 4 | The original deal was for the same time and same sum , but the difference now is that the new contract covers rugby only for the age bracket between 16 and 18 . |
| 5 | A Summit conference : The final recommendation was for a global summit to discuss international economic and financial issues raised by the Report . |
| 6 | One recommendation was for the older pupils to be divided into four occupational groups : engineering ; commerce ; domestic work ; and industries for which no vocational instruction was necessary . |
| 7 | One of their demands was for a phased release of internees . |
| 8 | The search was for a better glue , not a worse one . |
| 9 | The bust , bosom or cleavage was for the Fifties the apotheosis of erogenous zones . |
| 10 | Charles Hernu , bombarded the conference delegates with sweet talk on how useful defence research was for the civil sector and how good they were to researchers . |
| 11 | His secret ambition was for the Argentine ban to be lifted so he could get to England and avenge Pedro 's death by taking out the English and especially one poker-faced Guards Officer . |
| 12 | ‘ This recognition from the British radio industry was for a phenomenal range of programming — sport , specialist speech , comedy , local radio personality , local radio station , current affairs and documentary . ’ |
| 13 | Without going into matters which might be the subject of the inquiry , can the Secretary of State confirm , first , that there have been recurrent problems with the signalling at either end of the line , as a result of the damp ; and , secondly , the system in case of an emergency and a red light was for the relevant engine drivers physically to get out of the cab and use a telephone near the tunnel ? |
| 14 | In conference with Gerald Gardiner , subsequently Lord Chancellor , who had somewhat late in the day raised his flag as a member of the Labour Party , it was decided that the best course of action was for the Labour Party to be asked to be represented by Gardiner at the Vassall Tribunal and to inform Radcliffe that it had no additional witness to come to him . |
| 15 | Founded in 1925 , the Review is in many respects a source as appropriate to this phase as the English Association and the Newbolt Committee were for the earlier period . |
| 16 | Demands for licences grew steadily during the fourteenth century , but endowment of the religious orders never regained its earlier level , and alienations were increasingly directed to the establishment of chantries and secular institutions ; by mid-century almost as many licences were for the secular as for the religious churches , but this has more to do with declining enthusiasm for the vastly endowed monastic orders and the growing popular appeal of the mendicants who lived from alms , and not from farming extensive estates . |
| 17 | Helmets and unbelted tunics were for the despised ‘ county men ’ , ‘ those sheep-dippers up the road in the sticks ’ whom we continually used to reassert our own status by looking on them as ‘ hicksville country cousins ’ and definitely not ‘ real polises ’ . |
| 18 | An interpreter said later : ‘ The prayers were for the Royal Family and the prince and princess themselves . |
| 19 | Now the depot office the they in those days controlled what a man 's duties were for the next day and a man did n't know what he was on until about twelve o'clock one day what he was on the next day . |
| 20 | As the Vice-chairman , who was re-elected , was also deaf , the two elected leaders of the BDA were for the first time deaf . |
| 21 | Plain hospital beds with flock mattresses laid on interlaced wire springs were for the junior members of the staff . |
| 22 | The original proposal was for no guaranteed funding and payment to be in arrears . |
| 23 | One proposal was for a new head of state to be elected by the National Assembly , but under an alternative plan the National Assembly would elect a Presidium , the chair of which would also assume the post of head of state . |
| 24 | The initial proposal was for a 60 per cent cut in sulphur dioxide and a 40 per cent cut in dust and NOx , on 1980 levels , by 1995 . |
| 25 | The plan was for a short gathering , possibly not more than a month long , which would reassert the unity of the Church and its authority in matters of the faith . |
| 26 | Even worse , the Conservative plan was for the elected councillors for these authorities to be replaced by nominees from the second-tier borough councils , which in London involved the replacement of an elected Labour majority by an indirectly elected Conservative majority . |
| 27 | His responsibilities were for a single grey pony bound for a Kuwaiti Sheikh . |
| 28 | These ‘ composite ’ boats were for the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company . |
| 29 | whilst , if a privilege existed , it was up to the House to decide whether there had been a breach , the existence of the privilege in the first place was for the common law to decide and it was for the courts , and not the House , to declare the common law . |
| 30 | It is vital never to grant them absolute rights over nomenclature , or you will end up with a child called Aspirin Muesli Harris as poor Tom was for the first week of his life , until it was overruled as being pagan by the Irish Catholic nurse . |