Example sentences of "it [was/were] [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the right job did turn up , it was relief for the frustrated star , but it also signalled the end of his marriage . |
| 2 | The music they played gradually grew familiar to Alice ; it was music for the violin , the famous Violin Concerto , and it sounded very strange on the flute and guitar , so strange that it took her a moment or two to recognize it . |
| 3 | Nevertheless the Spanish translation of Rousseau 's Social Contract could appeal to a ‘ son of Padilla ’ ; it was enthusiasm for the parliamentary institutions of medieval Spain which allowed the Cortes of Cadiz to present a constitution , founded on the constitutions of Revolutionary France , as the culmination of the ‘ true ’ constitutional development of Spain . |
| 4 | But Japhet ( she knew it was Japhet for the name was printed in little letters on his tee-shirt ) was nobody but Finn himself , perfect down to the squint , in blue jeans . |
| 5 | Coffee was next , and then it was time for the bill . |
| 6 | It was time for the Other Woman to go back to America . |
| 7 | With the housecoat made up and endless hurdles overcome , it was time for the real test — replacing the clothes stand with a model . |
| 8 | ‘ We were very happy together until it was time for the operation . ’ |
| 9 | We avoided each other all evening until it was time for the Open University programmes . |
| 10 | It was time for the rumbles . |
| 11 | Then it was time for the Club cabaret . |
| 12 | The Gospel being read , it was time for the sermon . |
| 13 | Three days later it was time for the state visit of President Mobutu of Zaire . |
| 14 | It was time for the party , early August . |
| 15 | It was time for the regulators to get heavy . |
| 16 | When it was time for the foal to be separated from its mother , the friends took the foal but no longer visited Shamrock . |
| 17 | After the great divide had been effected , it was time for the mystics to find a new way to cross the abyss and rediscover the old unity — not , this time , in the outside world but in the depths of the self . |
| 18 | It was time for the deadly follow-up — the Offensive Offensive in which John Major would savage his opponents , even if they were sitting on the benches behind him . |
| 19 | Then she went out and joined the others in the playground until it was time for the lesson to begin . |
| 20 | Now the two rival versions had been completed , it was time for the multiple power centres of News on Sunday to deliver their verdicts . |
| 21 | But when it was time for the children to take their mother to the station , she drew a deep breath and said , ‘ I do my best for them , Mrs Willow . |
| 22 | Now the churching was over and it was time for the baptism to begin . |
| 23 | And then , bang , crash , oh dear , it was time for the regional franchises to be renewed . |
| 24 | Then it was time for the children to tell Mother what they had done . |
| 25 | Perks appeared when it was time for the 11.54 to arrive . |
| 26 | Down at the one-time pavilion that was now the Venetz sisters ' lakeside restaurant , Angelica Venetz had decided that it was time for the big old mallard 's appointment in duck heaven . |
| 27 | ‘ We summoned the sorcerers , and we sat long nights in Council , for we knew that we dare not wait until it was time for the Ritual of the Beastline to take place ; we had to know long before that if the birth of twins into the Royal House had truly damaged the Enchantment . |
| 28 | After two failures , it was time for the gloves to come off . |
| 29 | Day three was spent at the lowest place on earth — 1400 ft below sea level — the Dead Sea and , after visiting the ancient palace of Herod the Great at Masada , it was time for the obligatory float in the Dead Sea . |
| 30 | In making this break with tradition , James , it seems , had come to the conclusion that it was time for the intellectual elite to shut up and listen to the workers for a change for it was they who were at the sharp end of the production system and therefore they who first sensed any changes in patterns of production . |