Example sentences of "that [pron] was [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the beef classes were judged by an Argentinian , M Rodman , who said that he was particularly impressed with the easy-to-manage British breeds like the Angus and Hereford , and that there was scope for wider use of them in his country . |
| 2 | Consultants for the pressure group Transport 2000 claimed in 1987 that there was scope for transferring some 888 to 1,644 heavy goods vehicles per day from road to rail . |
| 3 | Local government was inefficient and lacked leaders of calibre ; the civil service was too amateurish ; the House of Commons needed a strong committee system ; policy coordination and planning were poor ; and many felt that there was scope for reform with respect to the redress of individual grievances against the state . |
| 4 | He also said that in the current , 1992 , fiscal year new lending would rise to $23,000-25,000 million , and that there was scope for considerable loans to the Soviet Union . |
| 5 | On the Canterbury estates , the initial period of leasing from 1380 to 1440 was followed by a time when it was harder to secure tenants , but after about 1490 there was some recovery in revenues and evidence that there was competition for leases ( 80 , pp.79 , 86 ) . |
| 6 | Thus the interior contained only a single row of nave arcade columns ( Plate 21 ) and the comparative narrowness of the plan meant that there was space for only a range of shallow ancillary rooms — stores , bathrooms and laundry ( Fig 44 ) — on the north side of the ground-floor flats access corridor once dwellings of suitable size , restricted to the spans of the nave arcade bays , had been accommodated . |
| 7 | All these studies of the transition from school to work discussed so far had assumed that there was work for young people to enter . |
| 8 | It is clear from the conversation that there was sympathy for the person involved because it was easy for them to place themselves in that position , allowing the event to be normalized . |
| 9 | By the mid-1960s the need was becoming urgent for an overhaul of the traditional tribunals in which the more serious indictable crimes were tried before a High Court Judge , part-time Recorder or chairman of Quarter Sessions , and in 1966 the Government decided that there was substance for another Royal Commission . |
| 10 | I therefore conclude , though not without some doubt , that there was consideration for the new agreement … . |
| 11 | Having reached the conclusion that there was consideration for the agreement made on June 28 and June 29 , 1973 , I must next consider whether even if that agreement , varying the terms of the original ship-building contract of April 10 , 1972 , was made under a threat to break that original contract and that the various increased instalments were made consequentially under the varied agreement , the increased sums can be recovered as money had and received . |
| 12 | If I am right in the conclusion reached with some doubt earlier that there was consideration for the 10 per cent . |
| 13 | The design team under Hugh Lasson and Misha Black ( both later knighted ) were right in believing that there was hunger for visual stimulation among the British and they got it in the form of sculpture , murals and mobiles by Moore , Hepworth , Piper , Sutherland , Topolski and Epstein as well as a pedestrian precinct which was all grilles and screens and balls and decks and terraces and fountains and colour . |
| 14 | But that there was need for a substantial change in British society was a widespread conclusion . |
| 15 | In his opening address on 29 September the pope rejected the notion , common since Vatican I , that the authority of the pontiff alone was sufficient to govern the Church , and listed the four aims of the Council : that the Church should have a clearer idea of its own nature ; that there was need for renewal ; that Christians of all denominations be brought closer together ( he apologized for the Catholic Church 's own failings in its relations with non-Catholics ) ; and finally , the need for dialogue between Church and world . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've spent all my life in general PR , but it was about eight years ago I decided that there was room for a specialist agency , not really a PR firm , which was concerned entirely with government relations . |
| 17 | Mr Ainslie noted that there was still too much geographic focus on where business was carried out within the company despite the international nature of the business and that there was room for a more unified focus . |
| 18 | ‘ When we started we felt that there was room for another East End of London author , having publicised ( in my case ) Lena Kennedy before , and Sue having edited her . |
| 19 | I always felt that there was room for improvement in top management . |
| 20 | When in 1953 Wyndham Lewis suggested a further campaign to release Pound from confinement , Eliot at first advised against any precipitate step : a number of proposals were being considered — including a letter to President Eisenhower — but he was wary of doing anything from England without being sure that there was approval for such moves in America . |
| 21 | My recollection was that it was £250 for a great deal of work and endless consultations with courteous BBC representatives who were terrified by my refusal to produce a total text ( since I can only give plausibility to anything I say when there is at least an element extemporised ) and refused to accept my positive assurances that I was as unlikely to dry up as the Thames . |
| 22 | The friend replies that it was A. For Wigner the electron 's wavepacket then collapses into the state in which the spin is definitely " up " . |
| 23 | ‘ Look , I just felt that it was time for a change , that 's all . |
| 24 | Although urged by his party to remain , he thought , like a decent democrat , that it was time for someone else to have a go , and he retired at the time of the 1987 General Election . |
| 25 | He had no answer — save that British scientists had been reorganised so often in recent years that it was time for stability . |
| 26 | For all his enjoyment of the work and the companionship of his team the lad was not sorry when the ground covered , about half an acre , showed that it was time for his midday snack . |
| 27 | The Samoan people explain the mythos of Creation as follows : as Na Atibu , the father of the gods , lay dying , he decided the world was ready for mankind and that it was time for mortals to settle the earth . |
| 28 | He watched as Edna wheeled the pram back to the house , having announced that it was time for ‘ a certain person 's tea ’ . |
| 29 | I could see that it was time for me to make the tea . |
| 30 | But his wife had said that it was time for an opportunity to wear something other than thick tweeds . |