Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [was/were] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My passion was for the stage and I was going to go for it . ’ |
| 2 | But it did n't take me long When you 're finished , tell me what you think my profit was for the day . |
| 3 | They often needed money above and beyond their budget ( though sometimes not much ) — because usually their budget was for the routine things they were doing , and if they wanted to do something novel , they had to find extra funds . |
| 4 | Her entry was for a suit for Dame Edna Everidge to wear to visit her bank manager . |
| 5 | Less consciously , their desire was for a baby to be given to them by a symbolic mother ( the female doctor ) . |
| 6 | When Eglantine Jebb launched the Save The Children Fund in May nineteen nineteen , one of her aims was for the fund to work for its own extinction . |
| 7 | The purpose of the study is to identify how the policy was implemented , and what its consequences were for the curriculum , pupils ' experience of school science and teachers ' professional situation . |
| 8 | We have dwelt too long among the great ; for all these cities , vital as their history was for the future , give little help in explaining the extraordinary prosperity of the smaller cities — though the precocious growth of Pisa may have helped its Tuscan neighbours . |
| 9 | Six respondents indicated that their visit was for a combination of leisure and business or study . |
| 10 | His plan was for the contra leaders to set sail with their manifesto , or a version of it , to Philadelphia from Nicaragua . |
| 11 | In reminding himself that his responsibilities were for the President , he recalled the way that Mariana had looked at the old man that first day when he had met them out on the dock , the President casting for bonefish . |
| 12 | His wish was for a person to ‘ be made whole ’ . |
| 13 | The first new project he mentioned in his letters was for a ballet to be danced to the spoken word . |
| 14 | Easter Island has a temperate climate , and only two tiny beaches far from the sole settlement of Hangaroa , There is but one small hotel ; our preference was for a guest house where we could meet a local family . |