Example sentences of "[noun sg] was for [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | One proposal was for a new head of state to be elected by the National Assembly , but under an alternative plan the National Assembly would elect a Presidium , the chair of which would also assume the post of head of state . |
| 32 | Ohly 's proposal was for an assessment by a special task force before any further substantial commitments were made in Indo-China but , coming as it did , a month after the US had made its half-a-billion-dollar commitment , it was probably too late . |
| 33 | The plan was for a short gathering , possibly not more than a month long , which would reassert the unity of the Church and its authority in matters of the faith . |
| 34 | The plan was for a show of swift action by a ‘ listening Government ’ to counter the demoralising effects of the Newbury and county council election disasters on May 6 . |
| 35 | The plan was for a plant bigger than one already operating at Wakefield in Yorkshire . |
| 36 | In Washington , a US defence official said : ‘ The plan was for a raid of high intensity and fairly short duration . ’ |
| 37 | His plan was for the contra leaders to set sail with their manifesto , or a version of it , to Philadelphia from Nicaragua . |
| 38 | As its critic Richard Grove had pointed out , the original plan was for the trees to live much longer ( and become more valuable timber ) , only the Commission had badly underestimated how windy it was in the British Isles , and the Sitka spruce suffered badly from ‘ wind-blow ’ , which stressed the timber and made sure that the trees would never reach the grand dimensions they do in their native temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest . |
| 39 | The plan was for the Unit to reform in the middle of this year . |
| 40 | The plan was for the financiers to place deals based on the probable impact of the column on the market and then share the profits . |
| 41 | Even worse , the Conservative plan was for the elected councillors for these authorities to be replaced by nominees from the second-tier borough councils , which in London involved the replacement of an elected Labour majority by an indirectly elected Conservative majority . |
| 42 | The cutters and machinists were to remain at the club house for another twelve and eighteen months respectively but the plan was for the printers to move immediately into the new premises . |
| 43 | To get round this , the plan was for the Government to ‘ lease ’ these employees to the railway at less onerous rates . |
| 44 | The ceremony at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum was for the presentation of an old Spitfire that had been hauled out of an English lake and identified as belonging to 71 Squadron the first of the Eagle squadrons formed from American volunteers back in 1940 . |
| 45 | Well they were two storey buildings , we had one office which was partitioned off for us clerks and the other half was for the traffic superintendent who was responsible , directly responsible to the general manager of the Ipswich Electric Supply and Transport Departments , so erm and then we had another office adjoining that which was a store room because in those days we used to have to erm record and keep in safekeeping all lost property , no end of things we used to have but we , you know , we used to have pigeon holes and lost property that was brought in , was placed into these pigeon holes it 'd be Monday , Tuesday , Wednesday . |
| 46 | One basket was for the house ; a different basket held larger eggs , chosen to be set for hatching . |
| 47 | A purchaser is only likely to avoid liability for dismissals before completion if either the dismissal was for a reason unconnected with the sale ( eg gross misconduct ) or the dismissal was sufficiently far in advance of completion that it was not connected with the sale . |
| 48 | Morality was for the laity , whose life was dominated by the battle against mortal sin , and who therefore lived under the threat of hell and were always at risk . |
| 49 | While Brunner 's theology was for a time regarded , especially in Britain and America , as more ‘ moderate ’ than Barth 's , and therefore preferable , he must now be regarded as the less radical and less creative of the two . |
| 50 | Tremayne showed a modicum of anxiety but no sympathy , and the anxiety was for the horse . |
| 51 | whilst , if a privilege existed , it was up to the House to decide whether there had been a breach , the existence of the privilege in the first place was for the common law to decide and it was for the courts , and not the House , to declare the common law . |
| 52 | MARKS & Spencer has just reported half-year profits up by a fifth , yet many investors will have been mystified to note that the stock market reaction was for the share price to fall back a bit . |
| 53 | It happened , however , that while I was at the College I had been approached by the Bristol University Board of Extra-Mural Studies , where a post was for the moment vacant organizing adult education work chiefly in Wiltshire . |
| 54 | His aim was for a deeper realism than that of the illustrators and photographers who called themselves Realists . |
| 55 | Under the banner of health education , the Ministry 's aim was for the creation of an enlightened public opinion . |
| 56 | Further institutional integration would depend on political circumstances , and the aim was for the Krajina Assembly 's mandate to be endorsed by the Serbian Assembly . |
| 57 | The first need was for a way to evaluate positions : to see which side was ahead , and by how much . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | Interestingly , his poor showing was for the same reason as that of much of the European contingent . |
| 60 | Historians have found some manors where the local custom was for the widow to receive a half proportion , or even the whole , and yet in others apparently none — although in these cases it is more likely that the documentation is being misconstrued . |