Example sentences of "[was/were] for [art] [noun] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The disparate movements of protest were for a moment united in massive resistance . |
| 2 | The disparate movements of protest were for a moment united in massive resistance . |
| 3 | The plan was for the Unit to reform in the middle of this year . |
| 4 | Only in one respect was any real money spent on Doctor Who , and that was for the TARDIS set in Episode One , the cost of which was spread out anyway throughout the rest of the season . |
| 5 | Cumberland was for the moment needed in England and after , to everyone 's relief , the discredited Field Marshal Wade had turned down the post of Commander-in-Chief in Scotland it was , on 24 December , accepted by Lieut-General Henry Hawley , known from his record as a disciplinarian as ‘ Hangman Hawley ’ . |
| 6 | THE last thing Norman Lamont and John Major wanted on a day when the unadjusted unemployment total topped 3 million again in spite of all the Government 's ( indirect ) efforts to set the scene for recovery was for the IMF to meddle in UK economic policy issues . |