Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] was a [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sien , he stressed , was that kind of person : in other words she was a substitute for something else — as prostitutes are — and from an inferior class . |
| 2 | For equities it was a day for special situations . |
| 3 | In other countries it was a vehicle for selling processed peas or indoctrinating the masses . |
| 4 | Whenever I went to Fisherton Street it was a must for me to go to Pickfords , the carriers for The Great Western Railway , just to gaze in the window , for right in the centre was a beautiful scale model of one of their pantechnicons , some two feet in length . |
| 5 | For many years it was a centre for cave exploration but was recently acquired by the Royal Signals for adventure and training . |
| 6 | In Elizabethan days , rosemary shoots were tied with coloured ribbon , tipped with gold and given to guests at weddings to symbolize love and faithfulness , and on New Year 's Day it was a gift for guests , together with an orange stuck with cloves . |
| 7 | Down the road at the Gloucester leisure centre it was a weekend for table tennis fans … over 300 players were competing in the Cotswold Junior championships … the boys title went to Surrey … the girls to Yorkshire but local boy Ray Powell raised the roof by fighting his way through to the semi-finals |
| 8 | For Weber it was a matter for social and historical analysis to discover the real basis of inequality in a particular society . |
| 9 | In this case it was a matter for local authorities . |
| 10 | In reality it was a chance for Charles and Diana to get to know their prospective stepmother . |
| 11 | When ambitious Little joined Leicester City it was a blow for the club and chairman . |
| 12 | Sadly , the case had more to do with the freedom of the press than with the rights of the mentally handicapped to live , and when the Mail was cleared of contempt by the Law Lords it was a victory for the freedom of the press not the mentally handicapped present in our society . |
| 13 | I blamed her and the fact she was a Jew for how she had used us all . |
| 14 | Much of his prose and verse , light-hearted in nature but containing some good pieces on rowing , appeared in Punch , of whose Table he was a member for thirty years from 1890 . |
| 15 | In wet weather it was a site for spectacular puddles , a mucky moat from which the picture house rose like a medieval castle . |