Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] was for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although arrangements differed in detail from one place to another the usual practice was for the management to allow a preliminary meeting in works time at which the aims of the WEA could be explained and for those apprentices interested to stay behind to plan a course . |
| 2 | The proper course was for the insurance company to apply to remove the stay in the plaintiff 's action . |
| 3 | One popular way was for the dealer to refer his client to somebody in the administration or accounts departments , or else to the director in charge of such details . |
| 4 | Second only to the family , his chief love was for the North of Scotland and in the mid-fifties he realised a life-time ambition by becoming the owner of a 26,000-acre estate in Sutherland and , typical of the man , here he turned this unit into a sound agricultural business as well as a sporting estate . |
| 5 | Her constant prayer was for the safety of ‘ My John ’ stuck , as she knew he was , in the mud around Ravenna . |
| 6 | The obvious solution was for the ELR to put on a daily goods train to service the site from both Bury Buckley Wells yard and a temporary sand and gravel dump established at Ewood Bridge . |
| 7 | Yes , and that in any case the normal procedure was for the matter to be reported to the Parquet . ’ |
| 8 | Strangely , his only international appearance was for the English against the Scottish League in 1914 . |
| 9 | He was asked about the secrecy involved and the necessity for the early morning raids , and he answered that both the Society 's and the Council 's major concern was for the interests and feelings of the children , and that necessitated confidentiality . |
| 10 | They chose the second option , because their prime concern was for the safety of the international financial system . |
| 11 | ‘ Kentigern 's mother was a northern princess called Thanew whose great love was for the Virgin Mother on whom she modelled herself . |
| 12 | Stage shows made Leonard Bernstein a very rich man , but he said he cared little for the money , his great love was for the music . |
| 13 | The initial deal was for the release of two singles and a potential album deal which has yet to be finalised . ’ |
| 14 | Both the Iranian and the Chinese governments denied that their co-operation over nuclear technology was for the development of a nuclear weapon . |
| 15 | Live work was for the future and would follow when Kylie felt fully ready for the demands of life on the road — and for now there were a million other business opportunities to be pursued . |
| 16 | The cheapest and most practical method was for the shikari to sit out over a tethered bait in a tree hide or machan waiting for the tiger to appear . |
| 17 | Tilly Mulliver 's only concern was for the state of her friend . |
| 18 | When I first started with the team at Moor Lane my particular responsibility was for the children 's talks . |
| 19 | In the higher price range , the most notable result was for the El Greco ‘ Disrobing of Christ ’ ( lot 309 ) , a preparatory study for the work of that subject in Toledo Cathedral , which made a new record for the artist at £1.7 million ( $3.1 ; est. £1.5–2.5 million ) . |
| 20 | The major financial effect was for the Gazette which suffered a £1.3m drop in income against the original 1992 budget . |
| 21 | Well they were two storey buildings , we had one office which was partitioned off for us clerks and the other half was for the traffic superintendent who was responsible , directly responsible to the general manager of the Ipswich Electric Supply and Transport Departments , so erm and then we had another office adjoining that which was a store room because in those days we used to have to erm record and keep in safekeeping all lost property , no end of things we used to have but we , you know , we used to have pigeon holes and lost property that was brought in , was placed into these pigeon holes it 'd be Monday , Tuesday , Wednesday . |
| 22 | These are the china clay tips near St Austell , the result of hundreds of years of the industry , now in recession , leaving the vast mountain legacy whose only recent use was for the filming of an episode of Dr Who . |
| 23 | The original bid was for the retention of the er , objective status in the Telford and regional travel to work area , which is the whole of the region and Bridgenorth area . |
| 24 | As its critic Richard Grove had pointed out , the original plan was for the trees to live much longer ( and become more valuable timber ) , only the Commission had badly underestimated how windy it was in the British Isles , and the Sitka spruce suffered badly from ‘ wind-blow ’ , which stressed the timber and made sure that the trees would never reach the grand dimensions they do in their native temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest . |
| 25 | Historians have found some manors where the local custom was for the widow to receive a half proportion , or even the whole , and yet in others apparently none — although in these cases it is more likely that the documentation is being misconstrued . |
| 26 | Initially it was the basic problem of shelter that attracted social scientists , with the result that the main concern was for the home environment of the poor . |