Example sentences of "was [adv] a [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Historians may have drawn gender lines too sharply , but the view that apprenticeship as serious industrial training towards mastery of a craft was overwhelmingly a path for males is essentially correct . |
| 2 | Programmes were mostly serious ; entertainment was mostly a cartoon for children ( ‘ Sindibad and Ali Baba ’ ) which also had some following among adults ; people much enjoyed a Syrian comedy series , and owners of video-recorders would tape it , to replay it for friends and visitors . |
| 3 | In the meantime discontent with the Central Office — which was mostly an excuse for discontent with the leadership — continued to mount . |
| 4 | It should not be assumed that such an argument was merely a cloak for self-interest and greed . |
| 5 | But Vergil 's presentation of the episode makes it clear that he thought the accusation had no validity and was merely an excuse for Hastings ' execution . |
| 6 | But Vergil 's presentation of the episode makes it clear that he thought the accusation had no validity and was merely an excuse for Hastings ' execution . |
| 7 | The answer to the question ‘ who sold to Z ? ’ depends upon whether Y was a buyer and re-seller or whether he was merely an agent for X. The answer is not helped by the fact that people who are in fact buyers and resellers are often termed in the trade ‘ agents . ’ |
| 8 | It was less a programme for socialism than a commitment to social reform . |
| 9 | Well , this was obviously a job for Joanna , but … |
| 10 | Whether they were poor because they were lame , or lame because they were poor , was perhaps a matter for sociologists , and a few years later , when their dwellings were swept away and replaced by council flats with rents much higher than they could afford , it must be assumed that they disappeared from the face of the earth . |
| 11 | Hence there was only a requirement for access from the south and this has been provided by utilising the existing slip road from Clovenstone Roundabout on Westerhailes Road for traffic joining the bypass and travelling south and by forming a new connection into Baberton Mains View for northbound traffic leaving the bypass . |
| 12 | To others , he would give something called love ; but it was only a reward for loyalty . ’ |
| 13 | Following from this there was thus an incentive for peasants to invest in large scale improvements without fear of tax on rises in productivity because the N A Y was fixed for at least three years . |
| 14 | Alida almost laughed aloud at the picture this presented to her mind , except that it was scarcely an occasion for laughter . |
| 15 | Right that that was just a letter for reference anyway |
| 16 | They wanted this colossal rent which was just a recipe for bankruptcy , ’ said Mr Anderson . |
| 17 | WHEN LIFE WAS JUST A CABARET FOR POISON IVY |
| 18 | At the time , it was just a tomb for Leigh 's money , thanks to his young designer 's fancies . |
| 19 | The pointed arch was merely the most efficient form of building technology at the time ( in Stamford a pointed arch is sometimes used in medieval cellars to span the sites of earlier quarry pits ) and the undercroft at no. 13 St. Mary 's Hill was not a crypt for St. Mary 's Church , but a shop with steps giving access to the street . |
| 20 | No , preserving a small majority was not a triumph for Mr Major in the real world . |
| 21 | This was not a problem for HARPY since it represented and recognised complete utterances . |
| 22 | The Reverend George Whitefield was not a man for jokes . |
| 23 | Dave Speed : ‘ This was not a Budget for jobs ’ |
| 24 | The conventional view that this was not a subject for girls was challenged by Sophie Bryant 's success , notably in sending a succession of North Londoners to study mathematics at Girton . |
| 25 | Rejected by Tawney ( 1912 ) , this has now been fully vindicated by Dr Kerridge , who has shown that the security conferred on the copyholder by the law was not inferior to that enjoyed by the freeholder , and that it was not a subject for dispute in the courts during the sixteenth century ‘ for the simple reason that the question had been settled long before ’ . |
| 26 | The colleges have always taken the view that accreditation was not a prerequisite for appointment ; a recent survey revealed that approximately one third of physicians were not accredited at the time of their appointment . |
| 27 | So ‘ Safety First ’ was not a substitute for lack of ideas and policies : it was deliberately chosen by Baldwin from a number of possible election platforms . |
| 28 | This was not a time for tears . |
| 29 | It was not a time for students of the world to ponder the great matters of global history , to care about the great beyond , to notice the unleashing of distant energies . |
| 30 | He was right , of course , this was not a time for love . |