Example sentences of "plan [was/were] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Washington , a US defence official said : ‘ The plan was for a raid of high intensity and fairly short duration . ’ |
| 2 | The plan was for a plant bigger than one already operating at Wakefield in Yorkshire . |
| 3 | The plan was for a show of swift action by a ‘ listening Government ’ to counter the demoralising effects of the Newbury and county council election disasters on May 6 . |
| 4 | To get round this , the plan was for the Government to ‘ lease ’ these employees to the railway at less onerous rates . |
| 5 | The plan was for the Unit to reform in the middle of this year . |
| 6 | The plan was for the financiers to place deals based on the probable impact of the column on the market and then share the profits . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | His plan was for the contra leaders to set sail with their manifesto , or a version of it , to Philadelphia from Nicaragua . |