Example sentences of "was for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second major middle class concern was for working class parents to accept certain standards and codes of behaviour . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Askari Security Services of Norwich said it was for poor work rate . |
| 6 | In Scotland the pattern followed was for Regional Councils and constituent Districts . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There was never a consensus for them , as there was for political reform , a consensus of middle class and lower class opinion . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Canadian international Forrest , 24 , faces a three-match ban after referee Ron Groves confirmed the red card was for serious foul play . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Its numbers had increased by 1979 to 3,000 from only 800 a century ago , when it had been expected to disappear : its only use was for bloodless bull-fighting in which ribbons are snatched from the bull 's horns . |
| 13 | The cry by 1901 was for educated men ‘ of good social standing ’ to become ministers : ‘ Such men … are more needed now than before Board Schools provided hearers whose improved education demands preaching of a higher order than formerly . ’ |
| 14 | His latest scheme was for European scientific co-operation to enable European companies to challenge the US in world markets . |
| 15 | Glasgow was for long suspicious of ‘ the electricity ’ , and St Enoch 's Station and the General Post Office remained the sole public buildings lit by the new method until the 1890s . |
| 16 | ‘ It was for personal reasons . ’ |
| 17 | But that was for bored husbands , and businessmen dating their secretaries . |
| 18 | To reduce the relationship between science and religion to one of conflict may also obscure the possibility that , when students of nature were persecuted by ecclesiastical authorities , it was for theological heresies rather than for scientific heterodoxy . |
| 19 | Llewellyn-Jones ( 1981a ) also looked at lag behind the speaker and though his concern was for individual comparison , a general conclusion is that the usual 2 — 3 seconds lag of the BSL interpreter behind the speaker is not sufficient for the message to be both understood and presented to the audience in a form which can be understood . |
| 20 | The brief was for current Elektra roster acts to interpret the creative outpourings of their predecessors on the label : the result is an excusably , and laudably , up and down affair , with pale recreations nestling up to inspired rethinks . |
| 21 | Total state expenditure was set to rise by 10 per cent to D4,080 million ( US$4,970 million ) of which D1,805 million ( US$2,200 million ) was for current spending ( a 14.2 per cent rise on 1990 ) . |
| 22 | The brief was for current Elektra roster acts to interpret the creative outpourings of their predecessors on the label : the result is an excusably , and laudably , up and down affair , with pale recreations nestling up to inspired rethinks . |
| 23 | ‘ The break-through made by Anisminic Ltd. v. Foreign Compensation Commission [ 1969 ] 2 A.C. 147 was that , as respects administrative tribunals and authorities , the old distinction between errors of law that went to jurisdiction and errors of law that did not , was for practical purposes abolished . |
| 24 | A major strike breaking phase in industrial relations history was for practical purposes almost over . |
| 25 | As Lord Diplock said in Re Racal Communications Ltd , ‘ The breakthrough made by Anisminic was that , as respected administrative tribunals and authorities , the old distinction between errors of law which went to jurisdiction and those which did not , was for practical purposes abolished . ’ |
| 26 | The main need of these artists was for good opportunities to exhibit their work ; unlike the equally celebrated group Die Brücke ( The Bridge ) they did not work closely together . |
| 27 | Triadic harmony , which may have originated in oral practice ( improvised parallel singing ) , was for good reasons highly developed in notated music but remains fundamental to most recorded music . |
| 28 | The forecast was for good , but that never means much . |
| 29 | Mr Jones said : ‘ Even when she knew she was dying , her concern was for other people , not herself . |
| 30 | It said : ‘ If it becomes known that UK companies have supplied equipment for manufacture of munitions we could truthfully say that when the licences were issued we had no reason to believe that this civilian equipment was for other than general industrial purposes . ’ |