Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] for [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effect was for her to wave both her arms out in front of her holding her hands together , then surprisingly a seeming third hand was under her jumper and was moving up and down . |
| 2 | The original plan was for her to make a solo album on the label , produced by Prince and featuring songs written by Prince . |
| 3 | In early August the plan was for it to stop at Didcot for servicing on Friday , September 11 , prior to leaving for Bournemouth that evening . |
| 4 | The world of nature was for them constructed on a mathematical plan , things were generated from numbers an idea to whose mystical overtones Aristotle objected . |
| 5 | The policy was for them to remain around the fringes of a raid and try and pick off stragglers , leaving the ‘ infighting ’ to the Hurricanes . |
| 6 | The French would be content so long as the arrangement was for them to sell abroad ; there can , however , be no question of France permitting her massive investment in nuclear power to be undermined by making it possible for French consumers to buy in from abroad . |
| 7 | Like Herbert , however , he suffered from ‘ aguish distempers ’ ; his doctor advised that the only chance of saving his life was for him to travel overseas in order to escape from the Cambridge climate and as a respite from his studies . |
| 8 | Two fine oak tables were missing , and the space was for me to fill . |
| 9 | Jock instilled into us that the end product of our training was for us to become independent in every way , operating either alone or in very small groups . |
| 10 | It was a short hop for Foucard to suggest that as her colleague was such a dull man it was unlikely the flat had been searched for something belonging to him , more likely that the hunt was for something belonging to Rain or Oliver . |
| 11 | The whole design of the system was for it to look factory fit . |
| 12 | The idea was for them to place special devices at these loci -devices that the regular maintenance crews would think were innocuous parts of the complex of delicate wiring . |
| 13 | The idea was for me to go on the high-wire sixty feet above ground — on the shoulders of a Czechoslovakian circus performer . |
| 14 | As the young owls had fledged , he said that we might expect to find them anywhere in the area , and that the best idea was for us to fan out and scan the branches . |
| 15 | But , Shelley , the idea was for you to work here at Monte Samana while he works at Santa Barbara . |
| 16 | The direction was for her to decide , not for him . |
| 17 | The next step was for me to learn how to play the new solo and then record a rough version of it , to double check that we all liked it . |