Example sentences of "[noun] it was [art] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | For equities it was a day for special situations . |
| 2 | In other countries it was a vehicle for selling processed peas or indoctrinating the masses . |
| 3 | In the early days of the war it was the practice for all staff to take shelter on the ‘ alert ’ , but loss of production time demanded a better system , and late in 1940 , a ‘ spotter ’ was detailed to observe enemy aircraft and to warn when danger was imminent . |
| 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 | For Baxter and George Kinnell it was an opportunity for a spot of transatlantic trouble and on arrival at their luxury hotel , the cousins ordered huge quantities of drink to be brought from a local liquor store . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Well every bonfire night it was the time for most people to get rid of the fleas and the mattresses and er and bonfire night we used to come just right . |
| 9 | This week it was the venue for a gathering of bankers , managers , and academics , exploring the future of transport . |
| 10 | When he announced he would retire from the game at the end of Biarritz 's run in the Championship it was the signal for scores of journalists to gather at each match to report on his ‘ funeral ’ … but we kept postponing it ’ . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | For Weber it was a matter for social and historical analysis to discover the real basis of inequality in a particular society . |
| 13 | When Philippines volcano Mount Pinatubo exploded blowing out 20 million tonnes of hot ash into the air it was the signal for a cold , wet , miserable August for Northern Europe a year later , they say . |
| 14 | In this case it was a matter for local authorities . |
| 15 | In reality it was a chance for Charles and Diana to get to know their prospective stepmother . |
| 16 | When ambitious Little joined Leicester City it was a blow for the club and chairman . |
| 17 | Either way it was the inspiration for the academic success that took him faster and further from the streets of his childhood than even his mother 's success in business had . |
| 18 | In some , the need for land was important , if not paramount ; in others it was the search for markets . |
| 19 | In the country it was the custom for the estate workers or tenants to act as both coffin- and pall-bearers , this was a necessity as the local builder often doubled up as undertaker and would not have had so many men at his command as the full-time town undertaker . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In wet weather it was a site for spectacular puddles , a mucky moat from which the picture house rose like a medieval castle . |