Example sentences of "was for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Mr Herriot , " he said as the smoke rose around his ears , " do you ever feel when sammat happens that it was meant to happen and that it was for t'best ? " |
| 2 | Cevallos , as foreign minister , was for four months in ignorance of the fact that Spain had ‘ joined ’ the Holy Alliance . |
| 3 | On European monetary union , it seems to me that it has long been the cherished aim of Conservative Governments to find a means by which we could control the value of our currency — to make it predictable in its exchange rate , as it was for much of the 19th century . |
| 4 | Drinking at a pavement café on Ben Yehuda was for each of them a way of signing off from the mission . |
| 5 | International law recognised that it was for each state to determine the conditions upon which it granted its nationality to ships , subject to there being a genuine link between the flag state and the vessel . |
| 6 | Newbery argued that a more useful approach was for each country to be looked at separately and the level of damage quantified to see how it could be most effectively and economically put right . |
| 7 | So once you knew wh how many degrees it was for each slice of the pie in your pie chart no problem to use your protractor and mark off forty eight degrees , a hundred and forty four , seventy two , thirty six |
| 8 | The main trend was for greater powers for the republics , which were to join the new union on a voluntary basis , choosing the level of involvement which they wanted to have . |
| 9 | A second major middle class concern was for working class parents to accept certain standards and codes of behaviour . |
| 10 | The term was for 26 years paying a one-twelfth to the Lord , save for the first six months when no claim would be made . |
| 11 | Although Charles II had been restored to the leadership of the Anglican church as well as the English state , his own personal religious preference was for Roman Catholicism , and he was thus keen to maintain friendly relations with the dominant Catholic monarch in Europe , Louis XIV . |
| 12 | For rejoinders to the commonsense objections against a moving earth , Wilkins was indebted to Galileo , as he was for striking analogies between the earth and moon . |
| 13 | Such French capital as Poland managed to secure was for specific projects like the new port at Gdynia — which was encouraged by the French to discomfort the Germans as much as to aid the Poles . |
| 14 | Askari Security Services of Norwich said it was for poor work rate . |
| 15 | Another consumer rights champion behind Safe-Buy is Lord Michael Winstanley who was for 18 years the presenter of Granada TV 's long-running ‘ This is Your Right ’ programme . |
| 16 | A chartered accountant , he was for 18 years managing director of Allied-Lyons Embassy Hotels Group , and five years managing director of the PROSIT Hotels and Tourism Consultancy . |
| 17 | The existing four-year exclusive index linked arrangement with the Football League , worth around £50m , was for 18 live League games plus three Rumbelows Cup ties a season . |
| 18 | In Scotland the pattern followed was for Regional Councils and constituent Districts . |
| 19 | Incontinence , however , was poorly defined ( for solid or liquid stools ) , but we may reasonably suppose that in many cases it was for liquid stools only . |
| 20 | I missed very much the man who was for fifteen years our first trombone ; he trained the group to the very highest level . |
| 21 | It finishes tomorrow and it was for fifteen days . |
| 22 | There was never a consensus for them , as there was for political reform , a consensus of middle class and lower class opinion . |
| 23 | Mr McLean and other northern area agents were visiting Downing Street you guessed right , his MBE was for political services when Mrs Thatcher and Mr Cecil Parkinson asked anxiously about Conservative prospects in the forthcoming Darlington by-election . |
| 24 | The appointment was for six months . |
| 25 | The force 's mandate was for six month , and could be extended for a further year at most . |
| 26 | Well there was for six months . |
| 27 | There was for six months when I was there . |
| 28 | Canadian international Forrest , 24 , faces a three-match ban after referee Ron Groves confirmed the red card was for serious foul play . |
| 29 | Another recommendation of the Commission was for increased funding for adult education and with gradual increases in its budgetary provision , the Board in 1931 was able to appoint three full-time lectures : Lee in Northamptonshire , Baker in Cambridgeshire and Hardman for university extension local lectures . |
| 30 | The minimum investment was for 100 shares at a price of £1 per share , but , as the initial payment was only 50p per share , members of the public could become shareholders of British Gas for a down-payment as low as £50 . |