Example sentences of "it [was/were] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're not exactly specialist agencies but they have a great deal of experience and they have a commitment to a certain kind of research , and they have , I mean we 've had our run-ins with them as it were , but they have listened , and they 've supported some of our work as well , and I think that they in time will provide a kind of model as it were for a number of erm perhaps less experienced agencies throughout the world , newly set-up ones , as to how it is possible to do consistently good logical rational work in the face of the chaos that a disaster produces . |
| 2 | Sometimes she dared to wonder at the causes for this way of life , for she could see that it did not represent a normal attitude towards society , though it was so deeply bred in her that all aberrations from it were for the rest of her life to seem to her perverse : but when , occasionally , she glimpsed some faint light of causation , she recoiled from it and shut her eyes in horror , preferring the darkness to such bitter illumination . |
| 3 | ‘ If you 've got the money and it was for a favour lasting a day or two , then why do n't you just tell him the arrangement is ended and let Barbara Coleman leave ? ’ |
| 4 | Right , and the background to that of course is , for those of you who may not know , Bullett was I suppose a more junior person in the State Department , when he went to Europe with Woodrow Wilson in nineteen eighteen , and nineteen whenever it was for a peace conference , and Bullett was the only one of the American delegation who resigned and confronted Wilson and said , look , you 've gone back on the fourteen points , you 're not doing what you said you would do . |
| 5 | You said it was for a B H S . |
| 6 | If it was for a film and it was a good part , then yes I would . |
| 7 | I say I worked , but I mean it was for a charity which ran one of these centres where they try and help the socially deprived . |
| 8 | The linesman said it was for a push and handball . |
| 9 | Since then , four telephone calls and two letters have failed to elicit from the sheriff officers the basis of this arrestment , beyond informing me that it was for a sum of £50.59 , but without specifying why or how this sum was allegedly due . |
| 10 | It was for a number of reasons , apart from a wish to escape from teaching , that I set out some weeks later for Libya , then a country almost entirely unknown . |
| 11 | It was for a party in one of the upstairs rooms , but it had been a long time ago . |
| 12 | This was my first poem ever written and it was for a daffodil tea in our church . |
| 13 | Yes he had booked there for a week , I think it was for a business meeting with Mr Sandy , that 's all I know . |
| 14 | From late 1813 trade improved , and it was for a time in 1814 brisk again . |
| 15 | But it was for a reason that would cut no ice with Jean-Claude and so I did not put it to him . |
| 16 | But I just said that it was for the Welsh Office cos I thought if er they knew it was for a Authority you know ? |
| 17 | it was for a card |
| 18 | ‘ My advisers have made it clear that there would be no point in getting involved in stocks and shares unless it was for a minimum of five years and better still 10 years . ’ |
| 19 | It was for a Bing Crosby film and Ella said jokingly , ‘ We had to come . |
| 20 | They knew how important it was for a baby to have fresh air and sun . |
| 21 | " I thought for a while it was for a baby of your own , " she said . |
| 22 | It was for a baby . ’ |
| 23 | When Joseph Parker paid his first visit to America in 1873 it was for an Alliance conference : on that occasion the delegates were presented to General Grant , the President . |
| 24 | After he had left the office his senior colleague observed with undisguised admiration how well Fred knew his district and how valuable it was for an officer to have such knowledge at his fingertips . |
| 25 | Christian preachers could declare how wrong it was for an individual to be dominated by another so as to be his legal property , and to be bought for much less than the rich would give for a racehorse . |
| 26 | In general , it was for the governors to determine the admissions policy at the school after consultation with the local education authority . |
| 27 | Petipa 's orders to Tchaikovsky were sacrosanct because the composer knew that if that ‘ dictator ’ did not approve the music would have to be changed ( as it was for The Nutcracker . ) |
| 28 | A group of fifth form pupils when asked for their response after using a simulation on the Arab-Israeli situation , remarked that one thing it had demonstrated was how easy it was for the countries to slide into war ! |
| 29 | I mean the Marxism was the motivation just as it was for the Chinese but er I do n't think the Russian revolution remained Marxist revolution for very long But the achievement of revolution did make it possible for the success of revolution to be seen by the Chinese because it had already been achieved . |
| 30 | ‘ If Haines recommended the Jockey Club should be abolished we would have to consider it and if we felt it was for the benefit of racing we would do it , ’ Lord Hartington said . |