Example sentences of "was [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then there was money for maimed soldiers , for what they called visited persons , which was the plague , fire and candles for the courts of guards , that was paying for fire and candles for all the little sentinel posts round Oxford . |
| 2 | There was money for silly things . |
| 3 | That to Sergeant Joe was money for old rope . |
| 4 | It was money for old rope . |
| 5 | On Monday there was the English paper — mainly Twelfth Night , which was money for old rope as I had played Feste at school . |
| 6 | I saw that here was opportunity for anthropological study which , when reported abroad , could but add to my fame . |
| 7 | From the early 1780s onwards an increasingly elaborate network of agents and informers kept foreigners and even many important figures in the government under surveillance , and from 1782 there was provision for dangerous political prisoners to be held in complete isolation in special underground cells . |
| 8 | But as mopping up operations continued there was disappointment for regular customers . |
| 9 | All these studies of the transition from school to work discussed so far had assumed that there was work for young people to enter . |
| 10 | Suddenly she was doing for silver-haired women of matronly stature what Joan Collins had done for the middle aged . |
| 11 | Because of their size they were unable fully to support a family and so there was need for off-farm employment . |
| 12 | The Association 's chairman , Paul Bell , said there were signs of confidence creeping back into the market but there was room for additional measures if a fullblown recovery was to be seen . |
| 13 | Oresme 's analysis shows that , within the scholastic tradition , there was room for new ideas , even if they were no more than conjectures . |
| 14 | But with Germany one third of the firm 's European profit base still in recession , there was room for continuing concern . |
| 15 | And Priest , remember , was choreographer for Dioclesian , King Arthur and The Fairy Queen . ) |
| 16 | When able men occupied the professorial chairs , there was scope for immense development . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Confusingly , it was another Richard Hutchinson , of the City and later of Stepney , who was co-treasurer for sick and wounded soldiers , widows , and orphans from 1643 to 1660 and a judge for imprisoned debtors in 1653–4 , and who served as co-paymaster of the navy under the treasurers in 1688–71 , appearing in the latter part of Pepys 's diary . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Fade out , fade in : two years later the job in Bogotá comes up — actually the last occasion it was Australia for British Telecom — and the dreaded cancellation call has to be made . |
| 21 | From 1919 to 1948 she was secretary for social training there , and later published privately a booklet on its history . |
| 22 | At 9.03 pm on June 21,1982 Diana produced the son and heir which was cause for national rejoicing . |
| 23 | But when the South lost the war , and there was equality for black people , Uncle Elias left America . |
| 24 | Life was hell for unsuccessful acts ; not only did the performers have to put up with heckling and catcalls but they had to be agile enough to duck the rotten eggs and fruit thrown by a disgruntled audience . |
| 25 | The first baronet was MP for New Shoreham in 1708–13 and 1715–20 : on his death in 1720 , his executors sold his large shareholding in the South Sea Company , and his son was left around £600,000 . |
| 26 | Mynne was MP for Old Sarum in 1621 and West Looe in 1624 , both being closed boroughs under royal patronage . |
| 27 | Although the immediate context for the ‘ attack ’ on local government was pressure for overall reductions in public spending and local government spending in particular , few of those writing about it have accepted this as a major explanation , partly because the evidence that levels of local government spending are of major significance to the economy are limited , and the arguments that state spending in itself discourages private investment are also weak . |
| 28 | She was minister for social action in the Pol Pot era and is regarded as one of the main theoreticians of the party . |
| 29 | While she was doing so , she was company for little Sandy , who was just six months old and still in his pram , the image of his daddy , Bruce Mackenzie . |
| 30 | Dr Hendron said it was time for political talks to be re-activated . |