Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [was/were] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Metcalfe said : ‘ The money was for the electricity bill . |
| 2 | Thus in Cammell Laird and Co Ltd v Manganese Bronze and Brass Co Ltd [ 1934 ] AC 402 , the contract was for the provision of two propellers for a specified ship and it was held that the sellers knew the purpose for which the propellers were required , ie that they should be suitable for the ship in question . |
| 3 | In Varley v. Whipp ( 1900 Q.B. ) the contract was for the sale of a specified second-hand reaping machine which at the time of the contract the seller did not own but had still to acquire . |
| 4 | The contract was for the sale by a Dutch company of aluminium foil some of which the buyers ( an English company ) were to use in their manufacturing process . |
| 5 | This could not be done where the contract was for the sale of purely generic goods . |
| 6 | The plaintiffs claimed repayment of the purchase price on the basis that the contract was for the sale of goods by description within s13(1) of SGA 1979 and could , therefore , be avoided on the grounds of misdescription . |
| 7 | They constitute an acknowledgment by the delegates , committee and officers that the Association was for the time being inadequately organised and funded for undertaking major tasks on the national scene . |
| 8 | The plan was for the Unit to reform in the middle of this year . |
| 9 | To get round this , the plan was for the Government to ‘ lease ’ these employees to the railway at less onerous rates . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Tremayne showed a modicum of anxiety but no sympathy , and the anxiety was for the horse . |
| 13 | I was also careful to explain BW 's policy as regards cycling on the towpath , and I emphasised that the work was for the benefit of all users and gave Spokes members no rights whatsoever . |
| 14 | I was also careful to explain BW 's policy as regards cycling on the towpath , and emphasised that the work was for the benefit of all users and gave Spokes members no rights whatsoever . |
| 15 | But Bianco was adamant the expediting of the process was for the benefit of staff and users alike . |
| 16 | Further institutional integration would depend on political circumstances , and the aim was for the Krajina Assembly 's mandate to be endorsed by the Serbian Assembly . |
| 17 | The procedure was for the investigator to ask for the location of any item already known in advance to be on the shop 's fourth floor . |
| 18 | The nearest clean water was from the standpipe in the churchyard ; they did not like to wash their finds there , because the water was for the flowers on the graves , but Martha fetched some in a bucket . |
| 19 | The museum part has only cost FFr150 million and the rest was for the library ’ . |
| 20 | The academy was for the future . |
| 21 | The discretion was for the District Courts to exercise , but they were urged to be sensitive to the interests expressed in the Convention . |
| 22 | The sports were in fact more of a backcloth than the central event ; the real purpose of the day was for the parents to prowl around the school inspecting the various displays of work set up in the classrooms , and compare the achievement of their offspring with that of others . |
| 23 | One of the first tasks of the day was for the girls to prepare freshly squeezed orange juice . |
| 24 | The charter was for the buying and selling of horses , and during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the feast was largely attended by gypsies engaged in horse dealing . |
| 25 | The House of Lords held that the question whether the conduct was prejudicial to the interests of the state was for the court and not for the jury . |
| 26 | And then , that was the new building , the refurbishment was for the County Hall . |
| 27 | This last criterion was applied in the Charter Consolidated Ltd/Anderson Strathclyde Ltd Report ( 1982 ) , where the concern was for the effects of the merger on employment in an area of Scotland which already had high unemployment . |
| 28 | During their conversation , he realised that the vision was for the present and not 4 years in the future . |
| 29 | All of this was , of course , unknown in Paris , where the attention of the Emperor was for the moment almost totally taken up with his domestic problems . |
| 30 | Ordinary arrangements for working the line were for the time suspended . |