Example sentences of "was [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernard 's original idea was for a 24″ tank next to the fire , but our series made him think again . |
| 2 | She saw how it was for the others : that they were suffering while we , fortunate as we were , had enough . |
| 3 | whilst , if a privilege existed , it was up to the House to decide whether there had been a breach , the existence of the privilege in the first place was for the common law to decide and it was for the courts , and not the House , to declare the common law . |
| 4 | The reform of censorship ( 1865 ) was based on the principle that it was for the courts to decide when the press had broken the law , and pre-publication censorship was significantly reduced . |
| 5 | The Attorney-General , while submitting that such use of Parliamentary material would breach article 9 , accepted that it was for the courts to determine the legal meaning and effect of article 9 . |
| 6 | This last criterion was applied in the Charter Consolidated Ltd/Anderson Strathclyde Ltd Report ( 1982 ) , where the concern was for the effects of the merger on employment in an area of Scotland which already had high unemployment . |
| 7 | In Committee the alternative proposal advanced by the Hon. Member for Dumfries was for the powers the Scottish transport users consultative committee to be extended . |
| 8 | Since financial , technical , and geographical constraints did not permit efforts to be made to bring their sewage works into compliance with the existing standards ( even if time had been available ) , the only other means of demonstrably maintaining compliance was for the agencies to change the standards to fit the existing discharges . |
| 9 | " As a matter of fact , it was for the birds , sir . " |
| 10 | The Easter Fete was for the birds , Timothy Gedge said . |
| 11 | A group of fifth form pupils when asked for their response after using a simulation on the Arab-Israeli situation , remarked that one thing it had demonstrated was how easy it was for the countries to slide into war ! |
| 12 | One of the first tasks of the day was for the girls to prepare freshly squeezed orange juice . |
| 13 | What Athens presumably wanted , for pollution could be got rid of , was for the Megarians to vow an expensive building or pay some humiliatingly large fine ( thus acknowledging Athenian ascendancy ) , for the ‘ chief malefactors ’ , i.e. the anti-Athenians , to be hounded out , and for Megara to be quietly absorbed into Athens ' sphere of influence . |
| 14 | The last thing they wanted was for the Americans to know they were about to learn their secrets . |
| 15 | He was asked about the secrecy involved and the necessity for the early morning raids , and he answered that both the Society 's and the Council 's major concern was for the interests and feelings of the children , and that necessitated confidentiality . |
| 16 | Time and again in England and Wales , the company that bought the bus undertaking in the first instance proved to be only a halfway house to resales , mergers and splits , and all the time the very last consideration was for the interests of the travelling public . |
| 17 | The sports were in fact more of a backcloth than the central event ; the real purpose of the day was for the parents to prowl around the school inspecting the various displays of work set up in the classrooms , and compare the achievement of their offspring with that of others . |
| 18 | Three hundred and eight pounds was for the ladies open , four hundred and twenty for the outing to , two hundred and twenty six had already been paid for the coach , plus all the prizes . |
| 19 | It 's curtain up time again , another opening of another show and the Smell of the Greasepaint and the roar of the crowd is as strong now as it ever was for the performers . |
| 20 | That was for the sons and daughters of richer families like her Pascoe cousins whose father , Uncle Harry , was making his fortune privateering and could afford to pay for Cousin Tristram to go across the water to Fowey every morning and attend Mr Carew 's new grammar school . |
| 21 | This too was for the magistrates . |
| 22 | In general , it was for the governors to determine the admissions policy at the school after consultation with the local education authority . |
| 23 | The cutters and machinists were to remain at the club house for another twelve and eighteen months respectively but the plan was for the printers to move immediately into the new premises . |
| 24 | In few cases was the curriculum criticized adversely , but in one or two cases a particular course was questioned in terms of how appropriate it was for the pupils , or because an aspect of the curriculum was underdeveloped . |
| 25 | The next step was for the peelers to strip the reeds of their rind , cutting it off with sharp double-bladed knives made of flint . |
| 26 | This situation was worse for the Communist Party women than it was for the men . |
| 27 | Interestingly , at the time of Burgess ' model , Sneinton and Radford were still on the outskirts of the city and this housing was for the workers at the Players , clothing , and Raleigh factories . |
| 28 | As its critic Richard Grove had pointed out , the original plan was for the trees to live much longer ( and become more valuable timber ) , only the Commission had badly underestimated how windy it was in the British Isles , and the Sitka spruce suffered badly from ‘ wind-blow ’ , which stressed the timber and made sure that the trees would never reach the grand dimensions they do in their native temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest . |
| 29 | They could only speak Greek to the Romans , and it was for the Romans to decide whether they wanted an interpreter . |
| 30 | He would n't be allowed to race if his eye was bad , but she knew only too well what a punishing endurance it was for the drivers . |