Example sentences of "was [prep] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bolt was on the door and the top was off the bottle of Old Bedwetter that I generally reserve for moments such as these . |
| 2 | By 1627 Buckingham 's pro-Catholic foreign policy had collapsed , and he was bent on a French war ; the need now was for the service of men with enough local influence to raise money for this purpose . |
| 3 | The specific version of this hypothesis tested by SPAR was for the problem of anaphor resolution in the task of paraphrasing simple English stories . |
| 4 | So er the forty pounds was for the update of the license to erm er an I B M compatible . |
| 5 | It was for the cost of having the floor relaid and also for consequential losses ( i.e. lost profits arising from lost production while the factory was closed to enable the floor to be relaid ) . |
| 6 | The initial deal was for the release of two singles and a potential album deal which has yet to be finalised . ’ |
| 7 | He could tell her face to face how sorry he was for the incident of the previous night . |
| 8 | The only statistically significant difference between the groups was for the presence of blood in the stool ; 5-ASA patients had significantly less blood reported than the bismuth group . |
| 9 | Of this $60,000,000 was for the relief of extreme poverty in Jiangxi province and $30,000,000 for repairing earthquake damage in Shanxi and Hebei provinces [ see p. 36815 for deferral of World Bank loans ] . |
| 10 | Tilly Mulliver 's only concern was for the state of her friend . |
| 11 | she was for the top of the hockey team and I were for the football |
| 12 | ‘ If Haines recommended the Jockey Club should be abolished we would have to consider it and if we felt it was for the benefit of racing we would do it , ’ Lord Hartington said . |
| 13 | For a start , much of that earlier patronage was for the benefit of the patrons and not of the public . |
| 14 | But Bianco was adamant the expediting of the process was for the benefit of staff and users alike . |
| 15 | The track that crosses the BCR at Longville Bridge runs below the railway at this point , and perhaps the screen was for the benefit of users of the track , but as it is also below the railway on the opposite side of the ford , and no screen was suggested there , it seems doubtful that this was the reason . |
| 16 | I was also careful to explain BW 's policy as regards cycling on the towpath , and I emphasised that the work was for the benefit of all users and gave Spokes members no rights whatsoever . |
| 17 | I was also careful to explain BW 's policy as regards cycling on the towpath , and emphasised that the work was for the benefit of all users and gave Spokes members no rights whatsoever . |
| 18 | That 's all we 'd need if sex was for the benefit of the species . |
| 19 | The ceremony at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum was for the presentation of an old Spitfire that had been hauled out of an English lake and identified as belonging to 71 Squadron the first of the Eagle squadrons formed from American volunteers back in 1940 . |
| 20 | He is also far more relaxed than he was for the majority of his Formula One career , laughing and joking with reporters and rivals . |
| 21 | Second only to the family , his chief love was for the North of Scotland and in the mid-fifties he realised a life-time ambition by becoming the owner of a 26,000-acre estate in Sutherland and , typical of the man , here he turned this unit into a sound agricultural business as well as a sporting estate . |
| 22 | The remaining $4,500 million , to be raised through banks , was for the purchase of Italian goods and services . |
| 23 | Sometimes , for those who do n't quail , there is a happy finale — as there was for the hunchback of Belorussia ( or was it Kovno Gubernia , or the far side of the Pale ? ) whose demon companions danced his hump off , and sent him home with his shoulders straight and strong . |
| 24 | Both the Iranian and the Chinese governments denied that their co-operation over nuclear technology was for the development of a nuclear weapon . |
| 25 | The omniscient and all powerful Archbishop Laud sent for him and decided that ‘ it was for the advantage of the world that such mighty parts should be afforded better opportunities of study and improvement than a course of constant preaching would allow of ’ . |
| 26 | Thus in Cammell Laird and Co Ltd v Manganese Bronze and Brass Co Ltd [ 1934 ] AC 402 , the contract was for the provision of two propellers for a specified ship and it was held that the sellers knew the purpose for which the propellers were required , ie that they should be suitable for the ship in question . |
| 27 | The retention of the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher as a form of ‘ back-up ’ to this liability would go some way to meet this point , though the Royal Commission 's preference , for reasons of certainty , was for the abolition of that rule . |
| 28 | It occurred to me , when I reached Julius Apollo 's door , that the Canadian would be standing where it was for the whole of the twenty-five minutes of its daily scheduled stop . |
| 29 | The counselling development worker , Fiona McRae , adds : ‘ When we started there was only one other agency offering counselling that was completely free , and that was for the whole of Edinburgh . |
| 30 | It is clear that the planning meeting was for the purpose of deciding how the period in secure accommodation should be managed . |