Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [noun] for the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This was manna for the banks . |
| 2 | This was fodder for the trainees , and they rarely got much else . |
| 3 | This was par for the course , they seemed to be saying . |
| 4 | It said nothing about investiture or homage : these were matters for the pope . |
| 5 | The judge 's initial view was that these were matters for the trial but he was persuaded otherwise by the arguments of counsel . |
| 6 | He wondered if these were preparations for the journey he had suggested last night . |
| 7 | Fairy tales , fables , moral and religious stories , alphabets , songs and poems , all were grist for the stationers ' presses . |
| 8 | The first two of those were also included were made public , they are in the issue 's papers it did not make public the county council 's proposal as to who should be participants for each topic since those were matters for the the panel er to ma take a view of and I understood er from er the question er the answer to the question that it had been made clear that er the information had been made public except as always Chairman , er our legal office 's of the council always like that caveat that in case anything had been missed out I had just in fact suggested that perhaps not everything had been made public so I anticipated a possible supplementary question from Mr . |
| 9 | For me that was vindication for the disagreements I 'd had with Sydney Newman and Donald Wilson , both of whom saw the music and titles after they 'd been done and said they did n't like them . |
| 10 | But then , as she was fast coming to realise , that was par for the course really , since nothing appeared to make much sense where Dane Jacobsen was concerned . |