Example sentences of "was for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The emergency plan was for Giles , fingers crossed , to take the tube from Heathrow to Hammersmith , where we 'd be waiting to pick him up . |
| 2 | The External Financing Limit ( EFL ) proposed for 1983–84 was for £1,130 million , easily the largest for any of the nationalised industries . |
| 3 | Another early war contract undertaken by Wolverton Works was for Casualty Evacuation Trains . |
| 4 | Here slept Carl and Louis in one of them ; the other was for Sam , Jerry , and me : all five boys in one room . |
| 5 | For him , Ireland was best served by deep cultural transformation ; for her , the first requirement was for bombs and bullets — the satanic British had to be got rid of . |
| 6 | The other bearers took the traditional view that the right thing to do was for Yussuf to get rid of her and find another one ; but for reasons known only to himself Yussuf was reluctant to do this . |
| 7 | Service was for life : this was reduced to twenty-five years at the end of the eighteenth century , but all too often the difference was purely nominal . |
| 8 | But when he got the job in the stocking factory he seriously thought it was for life . |
| 9 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 10 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 11 | Where tenure was for life only , and not by inheritance , where entry fines were not fixed by custom , it was possible for the lord , perfectly legally , to raise these to a level which a possible heir could not pay , not in the expectation of getting more money , but in the certainty that failure to pay would give him the right to evict . |
| 12 | Canon Anthony Harvey , sub-dean at Westminster Abbey , said in an article in Theology magazine that the Church should rethink its attitude to extra-marital sex and whether marriage was for life . |
| 13 | I should do something now , because perhaps it was for want of normal company that Eleanor Thorne lay until her mind turned the corner into madness and final decay , I should go out , I should not allow myself to brood , to carry out my sister 's peculiar whims and defer to the judgments she passes upon me . |
| 14 | You could say , perhaps , that the Star Rank scheme was largely put on ice , but that was for want of a sponsor , which was always vital to the future of the scheme . |
| 15 | Well lost property , I already touched on , that was one of my jobs and then erm , we called it the ticket book , that was for want of some other name I suppose . |
| 16 | She lost the argument , which was about her reservation , which was for berth No. 7 in English which the conductor obstinately read as 1 in French . |
| 17 | The intention was for students to complete a short initial destinations questionnaire as they approached the end of their course , and it was suggested that this might be done in the last formal course session , or when projects were handed in ( if appropriate ) . |
| 18 | The City of London plan was for students in the first semester ( sixteen weeks ) to take three basic courses , followed by a second semester in which three introductory courses stemming from the basic courses would be followed . |
| 19 | His successful bid was for £190,000 although he had made a higher prior offer which had been turned down . |
| 20 | How much of this savage attack was for Theo 's ears only and how much of it was actually voiced is not clear . |
| 21 | If was for service to the monarchy , however , that he was made the first Earl Ashburnham in 1730 ; for a family that had begun as modest farmers in the medieval Weald , this was no mean achievement . |
| 22 | ‘ They said it was for lack of printing plates , ’ said Mohammed Salekh , the party leader , who has to submit articles to the authorities for approval . |
| 23 | Partly it was for lack of anything else to be curious about , the usual island obsession with trivialities ; partly it was that one cryptic phrase from Mitford and the discovery about Leverrier ; partly , perhaps mostly , a peculiar feeling that I had a sort of right to visit . |
| 24 | OEEC demonstrated how easy it was for policies of coordination to clash with national wishes and interests . |
| 25 | As for Sparta , perhaps her first vote was merely a warning shot , and her second was for peace ; she was publicizing her own resolve to abide scrupulously by the terms of the Thirty Years Peace : Samos was ‘ possessed ’ by Athens in 446 and so she had a right to keep it . |
| 26 | Mm Oh I 've put in for one to pay the erm interest on the mortgage , which I have to do and that 's all being seen to because I 've had another letter saying can you tell me what this second loan were for and I 've put down yes , it was for windows and sent a bit of paper er , you know , that we 've paid four thousand seven hundred and something , five thousand , nine hundred and something we 've paid for them windows and I 've spent that |
| 27 | In neither form of action could the plaintiff be sure of recovering his goods in specie since the judgment in trespass was for damages and in detinue gave the defendant the option of giving up the goods or paying damages but it is unlikely that this was considered a defect and it should be noted that the remedy of specific restitution of chattels has remained unusual right up to modern times . |
| 28 | The men 's singles final was an all West Green affair , as it was for Woodhall farm last year . |
| 29 | And in Cuzco there were bars enough and restaurants enough to tell them in , whether your taste was for pizza , Chinese , French or vegetarian . |
| 30 | The other bill , dated 31 July , was for £400 , plus disbursements of £530 , of which the largest item was £500 for Coleman & Co. 's charges . |