Example sentences of "was for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Drinking at a pavement café on Ben Yehuda was for each of them a way of signing off from the mission . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | In fact , whereas the parallel protestant movement of evangelical revival was for all people , and the issue tended to be decisive , catholic spirituality diverged on both points . |
| 7 | The event , as ever , was for all shapes and sizes , ages and abilities . |
| 8 | They shared with Foxton the misfortune of coming into existence at the beginning of the motor car era , and whatever miscalculations may have been made in the construction , there was for all of them no way of gaining the large amounts of traffic that alone would have made them profitable . |
| 9 | It was not confined to Methodists , but was for all children who wished to attend . |
| 10 | Robert 's birthday is in June , and for a number of years , his birthday treat was for all the family to go to Cambridge on the bus , to go punting on the Cam , and then to have a strawberry and cream tea . |
| 11 | What should have happened , perhaps , was for all the actors in this particular drama to have realised the rival groups ' strengths and weaknesses and for senior management to have developed control procedures that divided up responsibilities for the production process in an equitable way . |
| 12 | Farr-Jones said the whole notion of a players ' company was for all the players to be involved , not to feather the nests of a select upper echelon . |
| 13 | Although the auditors ' report was addressed to ‘ the members ’ of Berg , it was for all practical purposes addressed to G alone . |
| 14 | Comdex/Spring in Chicago last week was for all intents and purposes a Microsoft Corp event , all the energy and sparkle belonging to the Windows World side of the house , OS/2 being a footsore also-ran and Unix not even showing up for the race . |
| 15 | However , teaching was for all levels of junior doctors together . |
| 16 | Basil was a true advocate of the view that Art was for all people . |
| 17 | The usual pattern was for all to congregate in Minton 's studio where he might cook a large risotto after which they went to a film . |
| 18 | This is interesting , because we know that even in the post-exilic period a considerable proportion of the Jews was for all practical purposes polytheistic . |
| 19 | It was , or it has been , a believe that the N H S was for all of us from the cradle to the grave . |
| 20 | It was , or it has been , a belief that the N H S was for all of us from the cradle to the grave . |
| 21 | No , all went in together we , ten past five our appointment was for all of us |
| 22 | Maybe it was for that reason that the party leader singled Mr Prescott 's past year performance out for praise in an interview in The Sunday Correspondent yesterday , calling him , chummily , ‘ Johnny ’ . |
| 23 | It played a very , very important part in David 's career , because it was for that film that he wrote ‘ Space Oddity'/ Most of the stuff on the film came from the Deram label but I thought we ought to have a very special piece of material — some new material — and something that would show how very fine and inventive a writer David was . |
| 24 | It was for that very reason that I declined appointment as a judge . |
| 25 | It was for that reason that France was hostile to both proposals : de Gaulle had already expressed his belief that the Commission already had too much power . |
| 26 | Junior naval officers were nominally ratings , for a midshipman was a warrant officer in contrast to the army equivalents , the ensign of foot or cornet of cavalry , who enjoyed commissioned rank , but it was for that reason that the Admiralty did not monopolise first appointments in the fleet , only interesting themselves in appointments at the rank of lieutenant or above . |
| 27 | It was for that reason that I took the stand I did , and put forward the views that I did . |
| 28 | Although almost all working-class housing in the novel is of that type , since it can better be represented as a ‘ home ’ , it was for that very reason much too expensive for the very poor . |
| 29 | Lot of shop lifting was for that reason . |
| 30 | A lot of prostitution was for that reason . |