Example sentences of "[noun sg] was for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The bust , bosom or cleavage was for the Fifties the apotheosis of erogenous zones . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Interestingly , his poor showing was for the same reason as that of much of the European contingent . |
| 11 | And then the other room was for the bigger , the elder ones . |
| 12 | But to be made a deacon was for the first time to profess before a multitude that the soul undertook the cause of God in a special ministry , and for the first time to feel sent to an apostolic work . |
| 13 | The general procedure was for the editorial staff to work to a 1.30pm daily deadline , which could sometimes be stretched to 2pm so that the presses could roll anytime between 4 and 4.30pm . |
| 14 | The schools that existed were run by either the Church or private individuals and education was for the rich or those able enough to get scholarships , and women 's education was not an issue . |
| 15 | Lawrence Stone has put forward a highly influential argument that the eighteenth century saw the rise of the companionate marriage , and that affection between husband and wife was for the first time widely judged as important as economic considerations in marriage This argument has been widely challenged in relation to all classes by historians examining various kinds of evidence from the seventeenth century and earlier The belief that affection as an ideal of marriage was basically invented by the middle and upper classes in the eighteenth century has , however , led some critics into simplistic views . |
| 16 | Secondly , the cry of forgiveness was for the covert bondage of unwitting sins , the habits of sinfulness that bound a lost humanity . |
| 17 | A key UDF demand was for the general election , currently scheduled for no later than June , to be postponed until November , in order to give opposition parties more time to organize . |
| 18 | The applause was for the joint effort . |
| 19 | However , slum clearance and replacement was for the poor . |
| 20 | The typical pattern was for the local parties to meet only once a year in 1915 and 1916 , to re-elect their officers for another year ; agents who had enlisted were kept on the books by retaining half their normal pay , to compensate them for loss of earnings in the national interest and to keep them available for a resumption of partisanship . |
| 21 | My second commission was for the Lutheran Church of St Andrew in Suislip . |
| 22 | But such privileged access was for the few : most men had to relay their desires through the elite which manned the doors of power . |
| 23 | The biggest cheer was for the local hero … |
| 24 | Their quest was for the perfect formula . ' |
| 25 | It was a heavy fall and Rain 's first thought was for the nervous old woman who lived in the flat below . |
| 26 | In 1981 , however , sports car drivers had a World Championship for the first time , when the championship was again renamed the World Endurance Championship and from 1982 the championship was for the new Group C cars . |
| 27 | The older generation of farmers made the point that ‘ training was for the young people ’ . |
| 28 | As far as we know , the first practical application was for the American piston-powered Shelduck target . |
| 29 | But this principal dislike was for the British . |
| 30 | The Plan B mentioned last year was for the All Blacks to make only a fleeting visit to Australia , thus opening the way for the South Africans to make a short tour to Australia and then for the All Blacks to go to South Africa . |