Example sentences of "was [prep] [be] for " in BNC.
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1 | The appointment was to be for the life of his father , Richard Earl of Cornwall , the king 's brother , with reversion to the Crown . |
2 | The contemporary open door was to be for the benefit of the Chinese , not their disadvantage . |
3 | The Daily Mirror and Sunday Pictorial were in interlocking ownership ; but the first Lord Rothermere , one of the founders ( in 1903 , when the Mirror was to be for women , edited by women — the women failed , and sacking them , the Harmsworths ' henchman said , was like drowning kittens ) had dispersed his shares on the Stock Exchange in 1931 . |
4 | However , for funding reasons this centre was to be for the whole region . |
5 | The fourteenth century showed how valuable access to the sea , and in particular to northern waters , was to be for France . |
6 | The Pill was to be for the sexual revolution what steam was to the industrial revolution . |
7 | It is obvious from his writings that Battuta was most impressed by what was to be for eight years his adopted city . |
8 | The Commission approved on Dec. 17 , 1989 , for the third framework programme , its key technology research and development initiative , a budget of 5,700 million ECU over a five-year period of which one-third was to be for research into information technology . |
9 | From the very first entry at the top of the list it is clear that this discussion was to be for Darwin revelatory . |
10 | Quickly she outlined the plan , explaining that the party was to be for local children who were handicapped or disadvantaged in some way . |