Example sentences of "it was for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But at the conference it was for the first time agreed to allow the constituency parties to elect their own separate representatives to the National Executive , and this at once led to the appearance in this category of Sir Stafford Cripps , Professor Harold Laski and D. N. Pritt — all advocates of close collaboration with the Communist Party , and Pritt indistinguishable from an actual card-carrying member . |
| 32 | However , this was far less significant for physics students than it was for the physical science and materials students . |
| 33 | He was looking at a fine for parking too long on a meter at the Pier Head and it was for the staggering sum of £720 . |
| 34 | On the preliminary issue the judge dismissed the application holding that a local authority could sue for libel in respect of its governing or administrative reputation even though no financial loss was pleaded or alleged , that where a local authority instituted proceedings in reliance on section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 it was for the local authority to decide on the expediency of litigating and it was not the court 's function to do so on an application to strike out , and that since the words complained of reflected on the local authority itself in the management and rectitude of its financial affairs , the statement of claim did disclose a cause of action against the defendants . |
| 35 | When that matter was put to the Home Office and the Department of the Environment , we were told that it was for the local authority to sort out the matter with the local police force . |
| 36 | Perhaps it was for the same reason that Mrs Parvis , so Gloria claimed , put crushed up egg-shells into powdered egg so that the lodgers would think they were eating something which they were n't . |
| 37 | It has been noted that it was for the same crimes that Klaus Barbie was sentenced by the courts in Lyon to life imprisonment . |
| 38 | It is clear that local government promises to be an even worse headache for the new government than it was for the old . |
| 39 | It is their village now , just as much as it was for the old village families . |
| 40 | Well it was for the next two years . |
| 41 | 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 ? |
| 42 | Lassa Java pushed him early on … what a night it was for the Meek family from the Forest of Dean as they watched their dogs dominate … |
| 43 | ‘ It was for the end-title sequence , and Michael Mills liked to have too much film rather than not enough , so the camera was still turning over when Michael got to just under a thousand feet ! ’ |
| 44 | Again the warning is vital as it was for the last two techniques . |
| 45 | When Mellor joined colleagues for yesterday 's Cabinet meeting , he knew it was for the last time . |
| 46 | This has also led to the massive wave of international intercontinental migration , the largest since the decades before 1914 , which has , incidentally , both aggravated inter-communal frictions , notably in the form of racism , and made a world of national territories , ‘ belonging ’ exclusively to the natives who keep strangers in their place , even less of a realistic option for the 21st century than it was for the 20th . |