Example sentences of "it was for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They often discussed his family together and how hard it was for a single man to bring up children alone . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | These days line is , in some cases , less than half the diameter than it was for a given breaking strain . |
| 4 | The idea is to note the activity ( which is planned by the classteacher alongside other teachers ) very briefly , to describe whether it was for a whole class , a group , or perhaps an individual . |
| 5 | This was my first poem ever written and it was for a daffodil tea in our church . |
| 6 | The linesman said it was for a push and handball . |
| 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 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | They knew how important it was for a baby to have fresh air and sun . |
| 10 | If it was for a film and it was a good part , then yes I would . |
| 11 | On the other hand , it was for a very long time the only kind of popular medical and natural science handbook which was available to laypeople , who possessed little knowledge of such matters other than their own experiences and the tales of other . |
| 12 | Alas , it was for a less creditable reason … it was because he wanted , though for the loftiest scientific purposes , to take advantage of her . |
| 13 | It was for a single person really was n't it there ? |
| 14 | But it was for a reason that would cut no ice with Jean-Claude and so I did not put it to him . |
| 15 | " I thought for a while it was for a baby of your own , " she said . |
| 16 | It was for a baby . ’ |
| 17 | It was for a party in one of the upstairs rooms , but it had been a long time ago . |
| 18 | It was for a Bing Crosby film and Ella said jokingly , ‘ We had to come . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 20 | Those who were libelled in the Fanzine may feel less aggrieved knowing it was for a good cause . |
| 21 | Could they only stand it because it was for a short unreal interval , whereas for him it was the real bit of his life , this little pocket of otherness , of ‘ unreality ’ , but for him it had been central , the power house , the full granary , the fulcrum . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | From late 1813 trade improved , and it was for a time in 1814 brisk again . |
| 25 | It was for a long time a small and cheap organisation . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Did n't even tell me it was for a special train for er Liverpool you know . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | You said it was for a B H S . |
| 30 | it was for a card |