Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [prep] the [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was surprised how well behaved the cat was on the bank for it hardly moved , out with the camera , click and back she went none the worse for her mistake . |
| 2 | That girl was in the doorway for nearly fifteen seconds ! |
| 3 | So : the bread-soda the bread-soda was on the list for Hanlon 's — Hanlon 's pony cart delivered in the morning , bringing the groceries . |
| 4 | What a lot of the people do n't realise , our League winning side of nineteen eighty six , up until we sold Cox a week ago , the whole team was on the table for sale or to borrow , the complete team . |
| 5 | Yes , the cases quoted are clear ones , in which carers have been in the home for a long time , but obviously we would wish to avoid a position in which the carer was in the home for a short time in the expectation that he or she would then be allowed to stay there . |
| 6 | Barrister David Ashton , acting for the liquidators of the Isle of Man Savings and Investment Bank , told the court that good news was on the way for the mostly small depositors , many of whom lost their life savings when the Douglas-based bank collapsed seven years ago . |
| 7 | The baby was in the Rena for four weeks at two guineas a week … the bill amounted to £16.12s.10d. and so you see , with all these expenses , the cost of having a baby has turned out to be very great , and now there are of course the funeral fees . ’ |
| 8 | By the end of the decade , new electrification projects meant the writing was on the wall for the surviving English Electric-engined Class 205 and 207 units . |
| 9 | Down 15–6 at half-time after 40 minutes with a strong breeze at their backs , the writing was on the wall for the Irish . |
| 10 | The writing was on the wall for Charles in June 1990 when he broke his arm in two places after a fall from his polo pony . |
| 11 | The writing was on the wall for the old system : it was doubtful whether the established constitution could hold . |
| 12 | The first seven frames had never quite pointed to such a convincing victory but once Hendry had forged clear at 6-3 , the writing was on the wall for his Bangkok challenger . |
| 13 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 14 | Nan was in the running for that kind of life , and Emily would do everything in her power to get it for her . |
| 15 | But however essential a modern cutter service was considered to be , building costs had rocketted and pressure was on the Treasury for economy in all departments . |
| 16 | A SEX-SHY elephant was in the mood for love at last yesterday … thanks to a top orchestra . |
| 17 | The young striker was on the pitch for just five minutes before he made his mark . |
| 18 | Lord Zetland who lives near Ripon and lists his recreations as horse-racing and lawn tennis but not mountaineering was in the team for the second year . |
| 19 | When Czechoslovakia 's quiet revolution came last November , reform communism was on the menu for less than a week . |
| 20 | The second plea was to the regime for ‘ clear and convincing steps ’ towards putting the country on a just , democratic and socialist course . |
| 21 | ‘ As it was the possibility of her resigning was in the papers for about three weeks . ’ |