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 | It should not be assumed that such an argument was merely a cloak for self-interest and greed . |
| 4 | It was less a programme for socialism than a commitment to social reform . |
| 5 | Well , this was obviously a job for Joanna , but … |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | To others , he would give something called love ; but it was only a reward for loyalty . ’ |
| 9 | Right that that was just a letter for reference anyway |
| 10 | They wanted this colossal rent which was just a recipe for bankruptcy , ’ said Mr Anderson . |
| 11 | WHEN LIFE WAS JUST A CABARET FOR POISON IVY |
| 12 | At the time , it was just a tomb for Leigh 's money , thanks to his young designer 's fancies . |
| 13 | The slender 102 ft spire was once a landmark for ships sailing up the river Humber to Hull . |
| 14 | It stands in two acres of landscaped garden which was once a paddock for horses , and has a delightful lily pond and a revolving Victorian summer house . |
| 15 | The context was always a plea for tolerance of something which he had been taught to regard as sinful . |
| 16 | There was always a hunger for newspapers and magazines ( usually preferred to books ) and he 'd heard of baptizers in Patashoqua who named children by stabbing a copy of the London Times with a pin and bequeathing the first three words they pricked upon the infant , however unmusical the combination . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , in certain occupations there was still a tendency for women to be over-represented amongst those working on a temporary basis . |
| 18 | Instead of finding Whites had more favourable attitudes to the police than Blacks , and had been stopped , etc. , less ( as found in the studies of larger areas ) , we found that on some measures Whites were similar to Blacks in their attitude and experience , though there was still a tendency for Blacks to be less favourable to the police . |
| 19 | Broadly the period 1951–87 can be divided into four parts : 1951–64 , a period of comparatively little social policy innovation which may be regarded as a time of consolidation or stagnation , according to one 's political viewpoint ; 1964–74 , a period of fairly intense policy change stimulated by both political parties , in which considerable difficulties were experienced in translating aspirations into practice ; 1974–78 , a period in which rapid inflation and government by the Labour party without a parliamentary majority administered a severe shock to the political and social system , and to all who believed that there was still a need for developments in social policy ; and 1979–87 , when much more explicitly anti-welfare state Conservative administrations reinforced that shock by deliberately treating inflation as more deserving of its attention than unemployment , attacking public services which were seen as inhibiting economic recovery and seeking ways to ‘ privatize ’ public services . |
| 20 | ‘ Abe ’ Finkel and his colleagues carried out what the critic Abel Green described as the ‘ canny Burbanking ’ of the material , but there was still a need for intervention by Breen , who asked Wallis to ensure that the film was not a direct attack on conditions in the mines . |
| 21 | Raoul Cédras , was now adopting a neutral stance on Aristide 's restoration , stating that it was still a matter for parliament to decide . |
| 22 | Deciding what to feed me was clearly a problem for Remedios Bajamunde . |
| 23 | The Room of the Plaster Couch was apparently a vestry , robing room or cloakroom : the ‘ couch ’ was probably a stand for water ewers . |
| 24 | Like all outsiders , he was automatically a focus for suspicion , and his casual dismissal of the Manchester plan had gained him enemies . |
| 25 | There was also a space for comments on the speaker 's language . |
| 26 | There was also a service for Band Corporal David McMillan , 26 . |
| 27 | He was also a spokesman for God , even as Aaron was Moses ' spokesman . |
| 28 | It was also a problem for David as well because he was n't getting any gigs and he was n't doing any recording work . |
| 29 | There was also a struggle for premises : we were meeting in a home which limited growth and every door we tried to open remained tightly shut . |
| 30 | There was also a case for Bangor 's David Feherty , a howling success in the last Ryder Cup match at Kiawah Island . |