Example sentences of "[noun] it was a [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 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 .
4 For many years it was a centre for cave exploration but was recently acquired by the Royal Signals for adventure and training .
5 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 .
6 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
7 For Weber it was a matter for social and historical analysis to discover the real basis of inequality in a particular society .
8 In this case it was a matter for local authorities .
9 In reality it was a chance for Charles and Diana to get to know their prospective stepmother .
10 When ambitious Little joined Leicester City it was a blow for the club and chairman .
11 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 .
12 In wet weather it was a site for spectacular puddles , a mucky moat from which the picture house rose like a medieval castle .
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