Example sentences of "was [noun sg] for [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was manna for the banks . |
| 2 | Finnan 's passengers stowed most of their gear in the hold and the Hearthwares slept there , but there was room for the others in the three-sided cabin , though the roof was so low they bumped their heads . |
| 3 | Mark Cunningham , who was lifeguard for the Masters and regularly bodysurfed big Pipe , was offhand about the danger . |
| 4 | He refereed international bridge matches ; and was goalkeeper for the Casuals when they won the AFA Cup final in 1913 . |
| 5 | It also , in those days was mileage for the tyres was paid on the number of miles run per tyre , so at the end of the month you could record , you knew what tyres were on a certain bus , you knew of how many miles that bus had done , so you recorded that particular tyre on that bus had run so many miles and it was that that we paid for our tyres that way . |
| 6 | For me that was vindication for the disagreements I 'd had with Sydney Newman and Donald Wilson , both of whom saw the music and titles after they 'd been done and said they did n't like them . |
| 7 | This was fodder for the trainees , and they rarely got much else . |
| 8 | When it was time for the newly-weds to say goodbye , Anna behaved in a most un-Romany manner by flinging her arms about Seb and kissing him . |
| 9 | It was time for the rumbles . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was time for the regulators to get heavy . |
| 12 | It was time for the socialists to make a complete break with their past in order to bring about a new renaissance , he argued . |
| 13 | It was time for the Socialists to make a complete break with their past in order to bring about a new renaissance , he argued . |
| 14 | After two failures , it was time for the gloves to come off . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Then it was time for the children to tell Mother what they had done . |