Example sentences of "was [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily he was wholly for the Ashleys . |
| 2 | Quail Eggs Arnold Bennett — perhaps the name should put one off , and what arrived was enough for a full meal , with much haddock , but the sauce was rather thick , reminding one of our party of a school-sanatorium dinner . |
| 3 | My parents could only afford to give me some small change on Sundays , but it was enough for a cinema ticket and an ice cream . |
| 4 | It was enough for a while just to have this clever , charming man as a friend , flattering to have him travel so far when he could just for the pleasure of her company . |
| 5 | Paul Simpson 's goal was enough for a one-one draw . |
| 6 | Twenty pounds of butter was enough for the lease of two and a half desiatiny of land for five years.l Five pudy of linseed cake were exchanged for the approaching harvest of a desiatin of wheat . |
| 7 | That performance was enough for the bookmakers to make The Fellow favourite for this afternoon 's big one . |
| 8 | It was enough for the Church that a corpse had been presented for burial . |
| 9 | This was enough for the Home Secretary to send the case back for a fourth hearing to the Court of Appeal , with the recommendation that they summon Mathews as a witness to test his credibility . |
| 10 | The majority decision was enough for the BAF to rule that the 22-year-old Croydon sprinter , who was found positive in an out-of-competition test just before the Olympics , remains banned until 1996 . |
| 11 | Again , while the cry for disestablishment was not a major factor in the political make-up of Hughes or Perks , it was so for the bulk of the movement 's leaders , men like C. A. Berry , Alexander Mackennal , John Clifford , J. B. Paton , A. T. Guttery , W. J. Townsend , C. Silvester Home , R. F. Horton , J. H. Hollowell , J. Carvell Williams , J. E. Ellis , Henry Broadhurst , J. Compton Rickett , Albert Spicer and W. P. Hartley . |
| 12 | She was all for a bit of ducking and diving , that 's how everyone lived in her estimation , but from what she had gleaned recently about her sons , it was a completely different lifestyle they were after . |
| 13 | It was all for a purpose , of course ; little that I do is not , one way or another . |
| 14 | He was all for the idea , and we exchanged addresses . |
| 15 | And everyone in Maple Drive , as they cooked , consoled , took out their best suits and thought of even nicer things to say about Donald than the last nice thing that had been said about him , were privately so astonished , so relieved , so savagely glad to be alive that if someone had proposed to bury him upside down in a bucket of horse manure they would probably have agreed it was all for the best . |
| 16 | This included having to study rod sizes , materials and changes in the amounts of electrical current to see how the effect depended on these , which was all for the future . |
| 17 | In only one respect were my original living arrangements altered , and it was all for the best . |
| 18 | The West Midlands and Cleveland County came up with £300,000 and £250,000 respectively , and that was all for the rest of England — a paltry £885,000 compared with the £2,325,000 raised from just twelve London boroughs . |
| 19 | Hari 's face was pale and Emily told herself sternly that it was all for the best , together she and Hari would prosper . |
| 20 | Macmillan replied urbanely that he was all for the plan , adding : |
| 21 | ‘ He realized I 'd be knocked out and did his utmost to persuade me it was all for the best . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Perhaps it was all for the best you lost the baby , Helen , ’ her mother said when Helen went to visit her . |
| 23 | The grand master of ceremonies , Amir Aslan Afshar , was all for the Shah 's keeping or selling his personal plane . |
| 24 | Come along , " Aunt Tossie was all for the fun of the fair . |
| 25 | Owen was all for the Agreement . |
| 26 | But it was only for a moment . |
| 27 | This crossed with Trevelyan 's letter , so he wrote again on 12th December , pointing out that the £30,000 voted by Parliament was only for a portion of the site authorized and that an additional £80,000 would be required to purchase the whole area . |
| 28 | For a moment I wondered if I would be able to catch him , but it was only for a moment . |
| 29 | ‘ That was the only time we kept something from her and even then it was only for a short time , ’ says Mike . |
| 30 | I told myself it was only for a while . |