Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Implicitly , the programme was one for the reform of the existing empire rather than its overthrow . |
| 2 | More people owned motor cars than previously : by 1956 there was one car for every three people in the United States ; in France and Britain the figure was one for every thirteen people . |
| 3 | He told Nicola the programme was looking tired and the job was hers for the asking ’ |
| 4 | Yet after the success in India , it appeared that the job was his for the foreseeable future — only for the news to break at the beginning of the 1977 season that , when in Australia for the Centenary Test , he had used his position to recruit players to Kerry Packer 's World Series Cricket . |
| 5 | The adjustment factor was one for the under 65 group and three for the over 65 group . |
| 6 | In time , the ever-increasing number of visitors had opened up an entirely new source of income for the Heymouthians , and instead of having to depend on fishing as their primary source of income , they found the tourist trade was theirs for the developing . |
| 7 | Richter 's story was unearthed by Mario Mariscotti who wrote a book in Spanish called The Secret of Huemmel Island in which he tells how Argentina , during the Peronist regime , had mistakenly thought that fusion was its for the asking . |
| 8 | Whose turn was it for a facilities trip ? |
| 9 | On the days he was going to see her , he woke up feeling that anything was possible , that the world was his for the asking . |
| 10 | They did not act since the case was one for the Russian authorities alone . |
| 11 | By then , at the end of the century , the Secretary 's power was his for the taking . |