Example sentences of "was [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | International law recognised that it was for each state to determine the conditions upon which it granted its nationality to ships , subject to there being a genuine link between the flag state and the vessel . |
| 2 | Newbery argued that a more useful approach was for each country to be looked at separately and the level of damage quantified to see how it could be most effectively and economically put right . |
| 3 | So once you knew wh how many degrees it was for each slice of the pie in your pie chart no problem to use your protractor and mark off forty eight degrees , a hundred and forty four , seventy two , thirty six |
| 4 | A second major middle class concern was for working class parents to accept certain standards and codes of behaviour . |
| 5 | Although Charles II had been restored to the leadership of the Anglican church as well as the English state , his own personal religious preference was for Roman Catholicism , and he was thus keen to maintain friendly relations with the dominant Catholic monarch in Europe , Louis XIV . |
| 6 | Askari Security Services of Norwich said it was for poor work rate . |
| 7 | There was never a consensus for them , as there was for political reform , a consensus of middle class and lower class opinion . |
| 8 | The force 's mandate was for six month , and could be extended for a further year at most . |
| 9 | Another recommendation of the Commission was for increased funding for adult education and with gradual increases in its budgetary provision , the Board in 1931 was able to appoint three full-time lectures : Lee in Northamptonshire , Baker in Cambridgeshire and Hardman for university extension local lectures . |
| 10 | Its numbers had increased by 1979 to 3,000 from only 800 a century ago , when it had been expected to disappear : its only use was for bloodless bull-fighting in which ribbons are snatched from the bull 's horns . |
| 11 | She followed him up the large curved staircase and decided that even if this was for one night only , she would be happy . |
| 12 | The initial plan was for one 24-hour stoppage , but if management did not respond this could turn into a rolling programme of one-day strikes . |
| 13 | So in Banbury and in Newport local Unionists were assured that the deal was for one election only . |
| 14 | All that was needed was for one kind of film to do well at the box-office and a new Hollywood format would be established . |
| 15 | All it took was for one saleslady to tell her she looked lovely and Mrs McMahon was persuaded . |
| 16 | Because , technically , his jail sentence was for one year , Nkrumah could register as a voter and then stand for election . |
| 17 | Eh , and they , I mean they did n't say whether it was for one year or three years in that piece of paper anyway did they ? . |
| 18 | If an individual peasant family was for one reason or another unable to produce its share of tax a peasant might borrow , do additional work as a paid labourer or craftsman or forfeit his land rights to another . |
| 19 | The defect in the Act which the reintroduction of the intention to incite racial hatred was intended to remedy was that where the recipient of the material was for one reason or another unlikely to be moved to racial hatred , no offence was committed . |
| 20 | Such activity was for one thing ‘ part of the English temper ’ . |
| 21 | One way of obtaining a permanent record , in the nineteenth century , was for one observer to watch the galvanometer mirror through a telescope and work a key with his finger that operated a signal pen on a smoked drum kymograph . |
| 22 | It played a very , very important part in David 's career , because it was for that film that he wrote ‘ Space Oddity'/ Most of the stuff on the film came from the Deram label but I thought we ought to have a very special piece of material — some new material — and something that would show how very fine and inventive a writer David was . |
| 23 | Maybe it was for that reason that the party leader singled Mr Prescott 's past year performance out for praise in an interview in The Sunday Correspondent yesterday , calling him , chummily , ‘ Johnny ’ . |
| 24 | It was for that reason that France was hostile to both proposals : de Gaulle had already expressed his belief that the Commission already had too much power . |
| 25 | Junior naval officers were nominally ratings , for a midshipman was a warrant officer in contrast to the army equivalents , the ensign of foot or cornet of cavalry , who enjoyed commissioned rank , but it was for that reason that the Admiralty did not monopolise first appointments in the fleet , only interesting themselves in appointments at the rank of lieutenant or above . |
| 26 | It was for that reason that I took the stand I did , and put forward the views that I did . |
| 27 | Lot of shop lifting was for that reason . |
| 28 | A lot of prostitution was for that reason . |
| 29 | They are admittedly themselves valueless and are thrown away and it was for that reason , no doubt , that Upjohn J. was constrained to say that their value lay in the evidence they afforded of success in an advertising campaign . |
| 30 | It was for that reason that I never showed him my poem ‘ To Thomas Hardy in 1940 ’ . |