Example sentences of "was [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we actually went to competitive tender , which was for a route improvement down near Leicester , they undercut us . |
| 2 | I told him I did not know his friend Bill and the breakfast was for a man who was staying at the inn . |
| 3 | ‘ The first day 's threshing I done was for a man by the name of Rogers , Harry Rogers . |
| 4 | All that was needed for defeat was for a couple of Liberal Democrats to switch sides . |
| 5 | But the last thing I did was for a guitar player in Nashville , Chip Young , who put together an album — which incidentally is getting released pretty soon — and he has ten tracks with ten different guests : local session players , myself , Chet 's on one , Grady Martin , Jerry Reed , Jerry Kennedy , Wayne Moss and various other guys , but I think guitar players out there will like it . ’ |
| 6 | If it was for a film and it was a good part , then yes I would . |
| 7 | His wish was for a person to ‘ be made whole ’ . |
| 8 | I say I worked , but I mean it was for a charity which ran one of these centres where they try and help the socially deprived . |
| 9 | The main requirement , says Candle was for a system that could intelligently suggest answers to bottlenecks or problems , and if required implement the necessary changes . |
| 10 | The proposal , which was for a referendum on the dissolution of the Byelarus Supreme Soviet , was denounced in a statement by the Council of Ministers on March 4 as an attempt to increase " social tension and confrontation " by blaming the Supreme Soviet and the Council of Ministers for the recent drop in living standards . |
| 11 | Presumably , the penalty was for a push on Ian Rush , although Liverpool looked as surprised as anyone . |
| 12 | The linesman said it was for a push and handball . |
| 13 | One Victorian scheme was for a tunnel lit by candles , where horses would draw passengers across in special vehicles , pausing only at an artificial island in the middle of the Channel for everyone to come up for air and water . |
| 14 | The access was never meant to be it was meant to be further in and and we all for well know , the permission was for a drive to come down through the wood , which would have been very attractive and a garage on the end of the property . |
| 15 | In Washington , a US defence official said : ‘ The plan was for a raid of high intensity and fairly short duration . ’ |
| 16 | The main requirement , as they saw it , was for a change in attitude in the community at large towards acceptance of ethnic minorities . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , the cry from the opposition parties in Denmark , notably the Social Democrats , who comprise the largest party , was for a change to the Treaty which would be legally binding . |
| 18 | Right , and the background to that of course is , for those of you who may not know , Bullett was I suppose a more junior person in the State Department , when he went to Europe with Woodrow Wilson in nineteen eighteen , and nineteen whenever it was for a peace conference , and Bullett was the only one of the American delegation who resigned and confronted Wilson and said , look , you 've gone back on the fourteen points , you 're not doing what you said you would do . |
| 19 | The 1989 budget , finally adopted by the CND on Aug. 11 , 1989 , was for a total of RF37,810,000 , including a development budget of RF14,190,000 . |
| 20 | The first need was for a way to evaluate positions : to see which side was ahead , and by how much . |
| 21 | The battery was for a camping weekend — so that I could see at night . |
| 22 | Her entry was for a suit for Dame Edna Everidge to wear to visit her bank manager . |
| 23 | Their main call was for a return to the 1977 White Paper , namely : ‘ a specific commitment on the part of central and local government to the regeneration of the inner areas … both central and local government will be judged by their willingness to implement new priorities , to make funds available , to change policies and to adapt their organisations , ( DoE , 1977 , para. 25 ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | One was for a building which would seat 306 people as well as the choir . |
| 26 | The ‘ engagement ’ was for a drinking party . |
| 27 | Hitler was never again to be at the centre of public attention as he was for a while following the plot of 20 July 1944 . |
| 28 | He also subscribed to Reuters ( received in morse by radio ) and was for a while a Reuters correspondent in the region . |
| 29 | A Russian emigre who was for a while vice president of research and development at Prime/Computervision , has caught the start-up bug . |
| 30 | But the next time Cecilia saw Daphne Bleech-Palmer Tina 's words came back to her and she was for a while shy and constrained . |