Example sentences of "was [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am very upset because the stall was for a good cause . ’ |
| 2 | Those who were libelled in the Fanzine may feel less aggrieved knowing it was for a good cause . |
| 3 | Certainly marriage was very much a practical necessity for working class girls , and the chief hope was for a good bargain . |
| 4 | One of Orrery 's commissions , about 1712 , was for a mechanical model of the Earth–Moon–Sun system , of a type recently constructed by the clock-maker George Graham [ q.v . ] . |
| 5 | When he offered to buy her a house in Blackpool , her request was for a simple terrace house , similar to the one in which they had spent their early life together . |
| 6 | ‘ This recognition from the British radio industry was for a phenomenal range of programming — sport , specialist speech , comedy , local radio personality , local radio station , current affairs and documentary . ’ |
| 7 | The adjudicator concluded that Mr Hussain 's application was for a short-term stay and dismissed the appeal after hearing evidence from Miss Rafique that she had no intention of living in Pakistan . |
| 8 | Another of the Ryan recommendations was for a financial reporting review panel , similar to the panel operated by the Financial Reporting Council in the UK . |
| 9 | The conversion was for a technical reason — this was the third year of World War One and the dye for the paper was manufactured in Germany . |
| 10 | A Summit conference : The final recommendation was for a global summit to discuss international economic and financial issues raised by the Report . |
| 11 | One of their demands was for a phased release of internees . |
| 12 | The Money Market — like Acceptance Credits and commercial paper — offered lower cost but less flexibility because credit was for a fixed term . |
| 13 | The contract was for a fixed term of five years . |
| 14 | The demand was for a state-backed campaign to educate women and girls . |
| 15 | At first this support was for a cautious continuation of the patching of the existing system . |
| 16 | Mr Mulrine said the latest application was for a single-storey extension containing eight bedrooms to be built onto the existing farmhouse , with access for drivers from the busy A68 . |
| 17 | One proposal was for a new head of state to be elected by the National Assembly , but under an alternative plan the National Assembly would elect a Presidium , the chair of which would also assume the post of head of state . |
| 18 | After talks with BR 's Chairman , Peter Parker , we agreed that the sensible way forward was for a new company , British Rail Investments , to be formed and for the subsidiaries to be transferred to the private sector , with the proceeds going to British Rail . |
| 19 | This time it was for a new church in Gainsborough to honour the Lincolnshire-born John Robinson , pastor to the ‘ Pilgrim Fathers ’ although he did not actually sail in the Mayflower . |
| 20 | The British White , largely on the basis of its coat pattern , was for a long while considered to be merely a polled variety of the White Park and , of course , there was some interbreeding . |
| 21 | His great courage at the time eventually earned him the Military Cross , but the harrowing experience was for a long while foremost in his mind and symbolized by the walk back to his commanding officer over a mass of dead German and British soldiers in which his feet scarcely touched the ground . |
| 22 | This hypothesis was for a long time a subject of much contention in anthropology and is not even now entirely laid to rest , but the meagre historical record we possess can not possibly support such an assertion . |
| 23 | Nell stayed as she was for a long time , then had an inspiration . |
| 24 | The other recalls what was for a long time Britain 's worst air disaster . |
| 25 | The mainstream of early French political socialism was for a long time essentially petit bourgeois , in its absence of rapprochement with trade unions , in its party organizational form , and in the social background of its parliamentarians and membership . |
| 26 | In university circles there was for a long time little sympathy for the innovators , and in his younger days Nietzsche 's own tastes inclined the same way . |
| 27 | It was for a long time a small and cheap organisation . |
| 28 | The answer is , of course , that the position of a word boundary has some effect on the realisation of the phoneme ; this is one of the many cases in which the occurrence of different allophones can only be properly explained by making reference to units of grammar ( something which was for a long time disapproved of by many phonologists ) . |
| 29 | During the development of modern phonetics in the present century it was for a long time hoped that scientific study of intonation would make it possible to state what the function of each different aspect of intonation was , and that foreign learners could then be taught rules to enable them to use intonation in the way that native speakers use it . |
| 30 | Another project was for a submerged tube . |