Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] was for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that was needed for defeat was for a couple of Liberal Democrats to switch sides . |
| 2 | The Court of Appeal ruled that outside s.2(1) the question of dishonesty was for the jury applying " the current standards of ordinary decent people " . |
| 3 | In conference with Gerald Gardiner , subsequently Lord Chancellor , who had somewhat late in the day raised his flag as a member of the Labour Party , it was decided that the best course of action was for the Labour Party to be asked to be represented by Gardiner at the Vassall Tribunal and to inform Radcliffe that it had no additional witness to come to him . |
| 4 | Secondly , the cry of forgiveness was for the covert bondage of unwitting sins , the habits of sinfulness that bound a lost humanity . |
| 5 | Thus , in the actual case their Lordships held that although the Minister had to adduce evidence that the decision to ban national unions at G.C.H.Q. was based on considerations of national security , the question of whether such considerations outweighed the prima facie duty of fairness was for the Minister himself to decide . |
| 6 | The flow of oil was for the most part halted after a few days when US aircraft bombed the pumping manifold stations . |
| 7 | The creation of structure was for a purpose : the hermetic principle of ‘ as above , so below ’ , imitating the macrocosm in the microcosm , bringing the vastness of nature and the universe down to a scale we can relate to . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The obvious area for development was for the group actively to seek Manpower Services Commission monies to set up employment creation projects and to use those funds to establish self-sustaining ventures as certain other projects in the area had done . |
| 10 | In July 1857 even Kiselev believed that because emancipation with land was for the time being impossible , freeing the serfs ought to be postponed for the foreseeable future . |