Example sentences of "[verb] [was/were] [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also included were proposals for the development of a common foreign and security policy and , ultimately , common defence . |
| 2 | What you had to do was listen for the echo not the report itself . |
| 3 | Price of the lamp when it was first introduced was £3 for the lamp and £5 for the gear . |
| 4 | Carlos Navarro , resigned on June 20 as treasurer of the parliamentary group of the ruling Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) , as a result of allegations that two Madrid consulting companies with which he had been associated were fronts for the channelling of illegal donations to the PSOE from corporations and banks . |
| 5 | Among the issues discussed was compensation for the 800 Volhynian Czechs who moved to Czechoslovakia after the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 [ see pp. 34460-62 ] . |
| 6 | The £6.1m paid was consideration for the site and the existing partly-constructed buildings . |