Example sentences of "was [adv] for [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 That performance was enough for the bookmakers to make The Fellow favourite for this afternoon 's big one .
2 This was partly for the reasons given above , but also due to the very large Conservative majority in the hereditary House of Lords , which soon rejected a Liberal attempt to amend the 1902 Education Act .
3 This was partly for the reasons discussed in Chapter 3 : more elderly people and medical advances which enabled more of them to benefit from treatments like joint replacement at even more advanced ages .
4 It was now for the Tories to try to form a Government .
5 The Ukraine 's first ‘ modern ’ computer-integrated manufacturing centre , using a broad range of equipment from IBM Corp , has been inaugurated in Kiev at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute , and while it was there for the ceremonies , IBM took the opportunity of establishing a Representative Office in Kiev , the first to be established outside Moscow in the former Soviet Union .
6 The whole world , the whole of society was there for the comedians to plunder .
7 " I often thought it was maybe for the birds .
8 The extra 10 minutes allowed was evidently for the classes ( or the masters ) to move .
9 They claim it has been put in the story by the early Church , during the period of the oral tradition , to show that Jesus thought his mission was primarily for the Jews and not the Gentiles .
10 By 1968 , the clean-cut image of lads in suits and neatly trimmed hair was definitely for the birds , but not the Byrds , and the Monkees had all but swung from their last branch ; the exploitation of four young men who were plucked from audition lines and manufactured into an internationally famous foursome was all but over .
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