Example sentences of "[pers pn] was for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm not surprised she was for cats ' meat , ’ Biddy said . |
| 2 | In this concluding section , we shall look at three quite different examples to see how difficult it was for scholars to achieve a total separation , even assuming they wanted it . |
| 3 | Mm Oh I 've put in for one to pay the erm interest on the mortgage , which I have to do and that 's all being seen to because I 've had another letter saying can you tell me what this second loan were for and I 've put down yes , it was for windows and sent a bit of paper er , you know , that we 've paid four thousand seven hundred and something , five thousand , nine hundred and something we 've paid for them windows and I 've spent that |
| 4 | OEEC demonstrated how easy it was for policies of coordination to clash with national wishes and interests . |
| 5 | It was for reasons such as these that it was decided wherever possible to rely on published research in the field . |
| 6 | It was for reasons such as this that every attempt was made to bring a measure of order to war . |
| 7 | It was for reasons such as these that in June 1981 we used the educational press to invite schools , colleges , and teachers to contact us if they had ‘ undertaken self-evaluation , self-assessment , self-monitoring or curriculum review ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ Unless it was for reasons other than cricket , one can not see an England team without his presence , ’ he said . |
| 9 | At Moss Green , GIST was called in to address the second-year class before they made craft mini-options , to stress how important it was for girls to consider getting a grounding in technology . |
| 10 | And it was for girls , for girls |
| 11 | The judge explained to the jury that the interests of the state were those of the government of the day and it was for ministers to decide the policies of the government . |
| 12 | St Osyth 's College of Education at Clacton-on-Sea proposed a BEd in 1969 and by December of the following year it had been turned down on the grounds that the College did not have an ‘ appropriate academic structure ’ , more thought about the objectives of the course ( it was for teachers of Home Economics ) was needed , the staff needed strengthening , the library expanding and laboratory facilities improving . |
| 13 | The report , by Jérôme Dourdin , noted in particular how tiring and discouraging it was for visitors to walk all the way out to the Pavillon de Flore to see the sculptures and then have to hike back again to visit the other collections in the Museum . |
| 14 | ‘ Perhaps it was for days . |
| 15 | it was for men that he felt the hot , flushing , roused attraction which a man is supposed to feel for the other sex … the male physique had a fascination for him , and for the female physique he felt only a fondness … |
| 16 | Up until very recently , it was for men only , but we did persuade the Charity Commission that times were changing and that if perchance there was a lady who was disabled , she would also be able to qualify . |
| 17 | It was for Couples , already top of the world rankings , his first major championship and he did it in the same accomplished manner that has already marked two earlier victories on the American tour . |
| 18 | It was for children , rabbits having a picnic in a wood with toadstools , birds . |
| 19 | In our first Report we tried as far as possible to avoid the word ‘ grammar ’ , and to explain how important it was for children to use linguistic terminology . |
| 20 | He enjoyed it , dangerous though it was for foreigners , but after the fall of Robespierre he had deemed it advisable to leave again . |
| 21 | But I suppose really it was for supplies that came by ship to be carried to some of the houses on the hill , the Ranger 's House , or the Observatory . ’ |
| 22 | It was for Fellows and Members of the Society , and the lecture was given by the Prime Minister Mrs Margaret Thatcher , a Fellow of the NCH 's George Thomas Society , who was absolutely brilliant . |
| 23 | It was for sinners such as this |
| 24 | See all the time she was in pain I laughed even but it was for nerves like . |
| 25 | Except that it was for adulterers , and murderers . |
| 26 | A man like Richard Hamilton , for instance , who 's now pretty well known in this country , was much better known on the Continent of Europe and in America , in Switzerland , in Germany , in Northern Italy — Milan particularly — much better known there than he was for decades . |