Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [was/were] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | At the end of teaching , the long street towards the centre of Cullbridge was for a time a babble of noise , with scuffles , cap-snatching and schoolboy indecencies hurled from green-blazered groups on one side to green-blazered groups on the other . |
| 3 | He maintained that the death of Christ was for the sins of all men against the first covenant . |
| 4 | Another winner from Newcastle was for the best overall score from the two rounds of golf which Steve Ridley , surveyor won . |
| 5 | Some aid agencies and other concerned groups meanwhile suggested that the only solution to the problem of the looting by armed groups of food supplies arriving in Somalia was for the country to be " flooded " with food aid . |
| 6 | His first important conservation scheme in Leeds was for the conversion of St Paul 's House , a Moorish-style Victorian warehouse in Park Square , which he designed while an Associate at Booth Shaw and Partners in 1970 . |
| 7 | The specific version of this hypothesis tested by SPAR was for the problem of anaphor resolution in the task of paraphrasing simple English stories . |