Example sentences of "[noun] was for [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plan was for the financiers to place deals based on the probable impact of the column on the market and then share the profits . |
| 2 | The cutters and machinists were to remain at the club house for another twelve and eighteen months respectively but the plan was for the printers to move immediately into the new premises . |
| 3 | As its critic Richard Grove had pointed out , the original plan was for the trees to live much longer ( and become more valuable timber ) , only the Commission had badly underestimated how windy it was in the British Isles , and the Sitka spruce suffered badly from ‘ wind-blow ’ , which stressed the timber and made sure that the trees would never reach the grand dimensions they do in their native temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest . |
| 4 | The sports were in fact more of a backcloth than the central event ; the real purpose of the day was for the parents to prowl around the school inspecting the various displays of work set up in the classrooms , and compare the achievement of their offspring with that of others . |
| 5 | One of the first tasks of the day was for the girls to prepare freshly squeezed orange juice . |
| 6 | The nearest clean water was from the standpipe in the churchyard ; they did not like to wash their finds there , because the water was for the flowers on the graves , but Martha fetched some in a bucket . |
| 7 | Three hundred and eight pounds was for the ladies open , four hundred and twenty for the outing to , two hundred and twenty six had already been paid for the coach , plus all the prizes . |
| 8 | Art was for the dunces . ’ |
| 9 | He maintained that the death of Christ was for the sins of all men against the first covenant . |
| 10 | The cheapest and most practical method was for the shikari to sit out over a tethered bait in a tree hide or machan waiting for the tiger to appear . |
| 11 | Since financial , technical , and geographical constraints did not permit efforts to be made to bring their sewage works into compliance with the existing standards ( even if time had been available ) , the only other means of demonstrably maintaining compliance was for the agencies to change the standards to fit the existing discharges . |
| 12 | Time and again in England and Wales , the company that bought the bus undertaking in the first instance proved to be only a halfway house to resales , mergers and splits , and all the time the very last consideration was for the interests of the travelling public . |
| 13 | This last criterion was applied in the Charter Consolidated Ltd/Anderson Strathclyde Ltd Report ( 1982 ) , where the concern was for the effects of the merger on employment in an area of Scotland which already had high unemployment . |
| 14 | He was asked about the secrecy involved and the necessity for the early morning raids , and he answered that both the Society 's and the Council 's major concern was for the interests and feelings of the children , and that necessitated confidentiality . |
| 15 | His first concern was for the children . |
| 16 | The Easter Fete was for the birds , Timothy Gedge said . |
| 17 | Interestingly , at the time of Burgess ' model , Sneinton and Radford were still on the outskirts of the city and this housing was for the workers at the Players , clothing , and Raleigh factories . |
| 18 | Bernard 's original idea was for a 24″ tank next to the fire , but our series made him think again . |
| 19 | When I first started with the team at Moor Lane my particular responsibility was for the children 's talks . |
| 20 | In Committee the alternative proposal advanced by the Hon. Member for Dumfries was for the powers the Scottish transport users consultative committee to be extended . |
| 21 | The next step was for the peelers to strip the reeds of their rind , cutting it off with sharp double-bladed knives made of flint . |