Example sentences of "was [prep] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Clare was off school sick with flu . |
| 2 | Another early war contract undertaken by Wolverton Works was for Casualty Evacuation Trains . |
| 3 | She lost the argument , which was about her reservation , which was for berth No. 7 in English which the conductor obstinately read as 1 in French . |
| 4 | The men 's singles final was an all West Green affair , as it was for Woodhall farm last year . |
| 5 | His earliest zeal was for landscape gardening . |
| 6 | Apparently the demand of the fashion of the time was for Navy blue , and I never even noticed that the slightest change in shade was incorporated into the front and hack panels of a jacket or trousers . |
| 7 | ‘ Had the care manager stuck to the initial referral alone , which was for respite care , she would have sorted them out for that , and that would have been it . ’ |
| 8 | Pregnancy also posed difficulties to those administering health insurance , and this showed how difficult it was for state welfare policies to treat women as both workers and wives and mothers . |
| 9 | Any one system may be used for several different purposes but the most common use was for outreach work . |
| 10 | It was for self improvement , if you like . |
| 11 | Coun Carr said only an estimated £83.29 of the £353 was for Middlesbrough Council spending plans . |
| 12 | The first undertaking was for shell forging , and the idea of the LMSR doing this work was initiated in July 1940 , by the Director of Ammunition Production , the original intention being to accommodate one unit to produce 4.5in ( 60-pounder ) shells and two units to manufacture 25-pdr shells . |
| 13 | Furnas insisted that the most recent stoppage was for routine maintenance until Greenpeace made public information about the incident that it had received from a worker at the plant , later confirmed by the Brazilian nuclear energy commission . |
| 14 | The million-hour award covered a two-year period up to last November , while the RoSPA bronze was for safety performance during 1992 . |
| 15 | The rest was for information storage . |
| 16 | And it remains finally to ask what place there was for trade unionism in the Labour Party 's revised prospectus . |
| 17 | Of the increased expenditure DM5,800 million was to go either directly or indirectly to East Germany , while DM220 million was for food aid to the Soviet Union and DM60 million for humanitarian aid to Romania . |
| 18 | Stewart Pritchard , SNH Fife area officer , said the discovery of the rare invertebrate showed how important ancient woodland was for nature conservation . |
| 19 | Ms Haddad reveals , inter alia , that Mr Nolte 's preferred erotic fantasy was for poses plastique in which she played a ‘ schoolgirl ’ and he a ‘ teacher ’ . |
| 20 | There was no chimney attached to it ; so she guessed it was for paraffin oil . |
| 21 | LEEL 's investment was for feasibility work into the inaugural event , and Standard Life has yet to extend its commitment beyond 1992 . |
| 22 | The other was for waste paper . |
| 23 | This one was for £500 cheque fraud . |
| 24 | Water quality manager at Essex Water John Devall yesterday said the main part of the plant was for pesticide removal although the company was making a provision for a nitrate removal plant . |
| 25 | When the law finally did catch up with Capone in 1931 , it was for tax evasion , and he was sentenced to 11 years in prison . |
| 26 | This was for camera footage only , all train movements being subject to normal ELR operating rules . |
| 27 | One of the welfare feminists ' main demands was for family endowment ( later called family allowances ) . |
| 28 | As recent as a year ago there had been little confidence about the future for sheep with lambs selling poorly , farmers wondering whether it was worth spending money on good rams or even worth tupping their ewes . |
| 29 | It was during World War II that she was to face her greatest challenge when Sark , with the other Channel Islands , was occupied by the Germans in July 1940 . |
| 30 | His ring record alone demanded the attention of the BBBC and he believed that : ‘ It was through public opinion that I eventually got a title . |