Example sentences of "the [noun] was [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did not act since the case was one for the Russian authorities alone . |
| 2 | As members of the RSPB the reserve was ours for free ; non-members were purchasing permits from ‘ reception ’ to gain admittance . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Implicitly , the programme was one for the reform of the existing empire rather than its overthrow . |
| 5 | ‘ A small part of the fault was mine for not noticing that Eleanor considered me as a great deal more than her employer . |
| 6 | He told Nicola the programme was looking tired and the job was hers for the asking ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The original claim by the present plaintiff against the appellants was one for money lent in the sum of £500,000 . |