Example sentences of "[ex0] was a [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A large-scale map was pinned to one wall and there was a blackboard for briefings . |
| 2 | He also felt that there was a case for district courts taking some civil work , such as small claims , which at present had to go to the sheriff courts . |
| 3 | The letter even speaks of their ‘ rights in the matter ’ , and it is perhaps surprising that the question was not asked whether there was a case for complaint to the European Court of Justice . |
| 4 | Even if there was a case for Dysart to answer , it was not relevant to Heather 's disappearance . |
| 5 | There was a receipt for £66 for drop earrings and insurance certificates for a Pounds 600 Rolex watch and an £800 eternity ring . |
| 6 | In the event , catering and laundry work was not a field in which private sector contractors made many successful bids , and there was a tendency for bids to be less serious or successful in northern areas than in the South ( Mohan , 1988a ) . |
| 7 | In contrast to the view that consistent left handers would become aphasic only with right sided lesions , Humphrey and Zangwill predicted that aphasia would occur from damage to either hemisphere , This expectation was confirmed , although there was a tendency for damage to the left hemisphere to result in more severe speech disturbances . |
| 8 | The head thought that many reports were highly descriptive and rather thin on evaluative comment and most of the heads of department I interviewed accepted that there was a tendency for reports to be largely or entirely descriptive : |
| 9 | There was a tendency for REM sleep time to recover slightly during the week of restriction , and during recovery sleep an increase in REM sleep time over baseline levels ( an REM sleep rebound ) indicated an accumulated pressure for REM sleep . |
| 10 | After the second oil shock , for example , there was a tendency for reserves to be kept in dollars , primarily because of the relatively high interest rates being offered on dollar deposits at the time , and so during the early 1980s the dollar was a strong currency . |
| 11 | It then comes to the practical point , Citing German experience to show that ‘ there was a tendency for employee and shareholder representatives to vote and act in distinct groups ’ , they add that the presence of co-opted directors on the board would mean that either group would at the very least need to gain the support of the majority of the directors before they could carry or veto a proposal . |
| 12 | Sebba and Wootton ( 1984 : 8 – 9 ) concluded on the basis of London English/Creole switching data which they studied , that there was a tendency for speakers to use a switch from Creole to London English within a turn " to change from the main theme of the conversation to some kind of subroutine or secondary material : a check on shared information , a search for a missing name or date , a comment indicating how the adjacent material should be interpreted . " |
| 13 | Warning that he would not be so lenient in the future , Mr Peter said it seemed to him that there was a warning for operators here generally , if they decided to go to a tachograph analysis agent . |
| 14 | There was a vogue for bidets in California some years ago but he thinks they are primarily symbolic as jacuzzis have become . |
| 15 | Put all these together and there was a struggle for faith . |
| 16 | There was a struggle for conversions : one or two people professed to give their lives to Christ but soon fell away . |
| 17 | When Stalin died in 1953 and his domination of the executive role ended , there was a struggle for power between leading party figures like Malenkov , Khrushchev and Bulganin . |
| 18 | One year there was a craze for Diabolo — a game where an hourglass-shaped piece of wood was balanced on a string held by two sticks , spun and tossed and caught again . |
| 19 | There was a message for Major in last weekend 's Sunday Times leader , personally signed by the editor . |
| 20 | ON THE SATURDAY after the massacre , there was a service for Marc Lepine attended by about twenty relatives and friends . |
| 21 | Although there was a trend for mortality to be lower in the older children , the differences between age groups were not significant ( χ 2 test for trend=3.32 , p=0.07 ) . |
| 22 | Overall , however , there was a trend for prednisolone to be more effective than fluticasone propionate . |
| 23 | she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship . |
| 24 | He reminded me there was a counterclaim for £2,444 and that by the order the plaintiffs in this action were released from any possible liability on the counterclaim . |
| 25 | There was a caller for Miranda downstairs , reported Marie-Angèle . |
| 26 | Although there was a potential for conflict between the other two policy aims , full employment and the protection of sterling , they were sustained because any necessary adjustments could be absorbed by the overall growth of the economy . |
| 27 | ‘ I had already established my own gallery in an old ironmongers in Porthmadog , after realising that there was a market for prints of original paintings . |
| 28 | Black Fury could only have been made at Warner Bros , a studio which had firmly aligned with Roosevelt and the New Deal and which quite clearly believed that there was a market for films which dealt with topical issues and in particular with matters of social justice . |
| 29 | Questionmaster was Colin Chard , and there was a break for supper . |
| 30 | The actors were pretty much the same as for The Trip — Susan Strasberg , Bruce Dern and , this time , there was a role for Nicholson , for whom that ever-popular name of Stoney was resurrected . |