Example sentences of "[was/were] a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I did n't think you were a man for whom family relationships would be important . ’ |
| 2 | " He probably took the trouble to find out as much as possible about you when he knew that you were a candidate for the job here . |
| 3 | The results were a setback for the SDP , which won most southern states in the local council elections of December 1990 but had since suffered from well-publicized internal feuding . |
| 4 | That 's right , but you were a councillor for instance Dave ? |
| 5 | Such powers were a necessity for advanced warning , as were the short wavelengths for the much greater precision in the location of targets than was possible with the 11-m waves of the coastal radar stations set up during the late 1930s . |
| 6 | These meetings were a dress-rehearsal for the first session of the Council . |
| 7 | They were a delight for the charterers in the Bahamian lagoons , but in an Atlantic storm such wide windows could be our death warrants for if Wavebreaker fell off a big wave the glass could be driven out of the windows and the boat be filling with water in seconds , and so I cut and shaped sheet steel shutters that could be bolted over the boat 's glass at the first sign of bad weather . |
| 8 | Limousines drew up to disgorge a wedding party ; women in elegant outfits topped with splendid hats were a fanfare for a bride who stepped out of an old white Daimler , tanned beneath her white silk . |
| 9 | He felt as though there were a space for him in the universe , and he exactly filled it . |
| 10 | His beliefs were a breathing-space for her . |
| 11 | They were a centre for training Communists from all over the world who would go back as leaders into strategic posts in their own countries . |
| 12 | They were a generation for whom Beats , jazz , art , and existentialism was what Paris was really about , not the hedonistic , free-spirited outburst of the revolution . |
| 13 | However , as a milking animal it always had a problem which is still apparent today in some animals : the udders were frequently so pendulous that they were prone to injury and made suckling awkward ( baby beef calves were bucket-reared ) , and later were a problem for machine milking . |
| 14 | There was a lot of symbolism connected with Piggy in the book : his glasses were a symbol for sight and wisdom ; as when Piggy took them off he could neither think nor see properly . |
| 15 | In fact there was something almost monastic about it : as if it were a retreat for much needed solitude and quiet study . |
| 16 | A Western specialist concluded that Brezhnev 's 1980 proposals ‘ were a call for America to abandon the region , leaving the Soviet Union victorious in the field ’ . |
| 17 | He would flirt with the girls who sold them to him and pretend they were a present for his mother . |
| 18 | Two impressive victories this year , in Berlin and in Frankfurt , producing municipal coalitions with the Greens , were a fillip for party morale . |
| 19 | The demand for working class seaside visits in Lancashire predated the railways and they were a convenience for , rather than a cause of , its subsequent growth … |
| 20 | Perhaps it was because the shining pennies were a reward for her hard work , some recompense for her sore knees and the work-reddened hands which took the coins from Dr Neil . |
| 21 | ‘ You 're beautiful , and it would make it easy to guess you were a receptionist for a high-powered company . |
| 22 | If there were a need for a review or anything of that sort the initiative would have to come first from the Catering Sub-Committee . |
| 23 | English history has a tendency to assimilate developments into a mythic story , so that events which were a victory for some faction or interest group get retrospectively sanctioned as a sacred progress of democratic tradition . |
| 24 | The results were a victory for the coalition , the Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) , which defeated the ( former communist ) Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP ) by a margin of just over 1 per cent of the vote . |
| 25 | Patients with prostatic disease were removed from the survival figures to see if they were a confounder for age ; although overall survival was worse in the remainder , there was still no association with age ( table II ) . |
| 26 | I accepted all of this without thinking it in any way unusual , even though my father used to boast about Billy 's achievements as if they were a matter for civic pride . |
| 27 | Tariffs , they considered , were a matter for their own judgement at local level , and the existing simple bulk supply tariff , together with their own knowledge of the industry , were argued to be a sufficient incentive to develop off-peak sales . |
| 28 | Working party interim reports , Secretary of State reactions , draft materials and final publications were all sent direct to schools but , unlike the organization of assessment , the mapping out of the curriculum and its proper support through staffing , books and other resources , time and leadership were a matter for heads and curriculum leaders . |
| 29 | The Scottish Office last week argued its promises stood , and that redundancies were a matter for the university . |
| 30 | The leader of the council , Keith Harding , said that allocations were a matter for housing officials . |