Example sentences of "was for one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only one contained a cheque , that from Regis , the bookseller in Maidenhead , and the cheque was for one tenth of the sum she had confidently expected . |
| 2 | All that was required then was for one of these tormentors to fall ill or suffer a sudden accident and the old ‘ witch ’ was to blame . |
| 3 | Such activity was for one thing ‘ part of the English temper ’ . |
| 4 | All that was needed was for one kind of film to do well at the box-office and a new Hollywood format would be established . |
| 5 | Fujitsu Ltd sources say that the machine being developed by Hal Computer Systems Inc in the US will be significantly more powerful than the 300 MIPS that has been reported — but 300 MIPS was for one of its Sparc chips . |
| 6 | If an individual peasant family was for one reason or another unable to produce its share of tax a peasant might borrow , do additional work as a paid labourer or craftsman or forfeit his land rights to another . |
| 7 | One way of obtaining a permanent record , in the nineteenth century , was for one observer to watch the galvanometer mirror through a telescope and work a key with his finger that operated a signal pen on a smoked drum kymograph . |
| 8 | So in Banbury and in Newport local Unionists were assured that the deal was for one election only . |
| 9 | She followed him up the large curved staircase and decided that even if this was for one night only , she would be happy . |
| 10 | Because , technically , his jail sentence was for one year , Nkrumah could register as a voter and then stand for election . |
| 11 | The defect in the Act which the reintroduction of the intention to incite racial hatred was intended to remedy was that where the recipient of the material was for one reason or another unlikely to be moved to racial hatred , no offence was committed . |
| 12 | All it took was for one saleslady to tell her she looked lovely and Mrs McMahon was persuaded . |
| 13 | The initial plan was for one 24-hour stoppage , but if management did not respond this could turn into a rolling programme of one-day strikes . |
| 14 | Eh , and they , I mean they did n't say whether it was for one year or three years in that piece of paper anyway did they ? . |