Example sentences of "[verb] for a [noun sg] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Section 3.3 an alternative definition given for a geodesic was of a curve across space with no component of curvature in that space . |
| 2 | ( Beckett 1959 and 1979 : 9 ) , while Flann O'Brien 's narrator comments , ‘ one beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with ’ and goes on to offer ‘ three openings entirely dissimilar ’ ( O'Brien 1939 and 1975 : 9 ) . |
| 3 | Much difficulty could be avoided if the only candidates permitted to work for a PhD were those who were virtually certain to obtain it , but that is not a feasible option in the modern university . |
| 4 | Swimming was one thing , going for a drink was something else entirely , and would probably give him all sorts of ideas . |
| 5 | If children had already married and had been provided for a will was not necessary . |
| 6 | Determination to fight for a principle was . |
| 7 | It was a bay horse on its side , and the waving object he had taken for a branch was a leg which in its faint struggles to rise the beast threshed weakly in the air . |