Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [be] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only when everyone rose to their feet , shook hands and made a beeline for the cooking tent — where , it emerged , Balvinder Singh had been for the last half-hour — that I realized that the ceremony was over . |
| 2 | Most of his earlier stage designs had been for opera , and the latest of them , Simon Boccanegra , had been the big hit of the preceding season . |
| 3 | 1992/93 maintenance had been for file-servers , high-performance PCs , and critical laser printers only . |
| 4 | Although our prediction had been for around 100 validations , based on the transfer of old courses , we will actually be involved in closer to 320 validations . |
| 5 | It reminded me how quiet my rocky tooth had been for at least a week or two now … |
| 6 | The original intention had been for the Quins players , seven of whom were in England 's Grand Slam squad , to have Easter off . |
| 7 | The original intention had been for the expedition to sail on 10 February but the usual bad weather made this impossible and Ormonde became progressively more reluctant to leave , suspecting that all hope of surprise had now been lost . |
| 8 | For many lifetimes railway practice had been for locomotives and rolling stock to be downgraded or ‘ cascaded ’ from front line to secondary services . |
| 9 | The original proposal had been for PR in the cities but this was opposed by Unionists who were concerned to protect the efficacy of the business vote ; Central Office also opposed the alternative vote when it was put forward in the debates , and the majority of Unionist MPs and the National Union never backed either system . |
| 10 | In another study , this time of one village Ringmer in Sussex , which had doubled in size from around 2,000 inhabitants in 1961 to 4,000 in 1971 , Ambrose ( 1974 ) found that the main reason for migration to the village had been for a job , or to be within commuting range of a job , thus confirming that the main reason for migration , as already outlined earlier in this chapter , is economic , but also that the most dominant newcomers are Pahl 's ‘ spiralists ’ . |
| 11 | The plan had been for the Americans to discover an unknown for the lead female role but no-one had Miss Leigh 's screen magic . |
| 12 | The plan had been for his son ( Frederick William ) Robin ( born 1936 ) , who succeeded as third earl and was himself the author of an excellent life of William Wilberforce [ q.v. ] , to complete it . |
| 13 | The original plan had been for a rapid take-over of military and political control in Madrid , accompanied by risings in the other main cities and the convergence on the capital of detachments from the provinces to consolidate the coup and force the transfer of power . |
| 14 | The Court of Session heard that the original plan had been for the Deanses to use their 57 per cent shareholding to remove four directors — Wilson Young , James Johnston , Alastair McKenzie and Clive Scott . |
| 15 | It is possible that one of the epitaphs Leapor wrote was for Mary Freemantle , rather than for her own mother as first seems likely [ ML , 1 , 263 ] . |
| 16 | Two-thirds of all reservations received were for new books . |
| 17 | In this process of adaptation , what was really wanted was European power : the demands of the Hundred Days had been for arms , railways and schools . |
| 18 | There are general sort of comments that they do n't really know what the parish council does and they 're not very sure , erm , sort of it , it was mainly through the children 's card thing , perhaps a little bit of money that their child , you know did n't me meet any recognition but would n't it have been nice to know exactly what the picture had been for , and sort of the nitty- gritty does n't necessarily get filtered through . |
| 19 | Once he had ( rightly ) rejected that argument , he treated the matter as one for the unfettered exercise of his discretion , in which W. 's views were merely a relatively unimportant factor , and expressed the view that his real choice was between the conflicting medical views of Dr. M. , the consultant psychiatrist in whose care W. had been for over a year , and Dr. G. , supported in the event by Dr. D. , another consultant psychiatrist with specialist experience in the field of anorexia nervosa . |
| 20 | However in a few incidents the initial charge had been for the full offence of rape … . |
| 21 | He stressed that his advice to go ahead with detailed planning for the £5 million junction had been for guidance only and that the full approval of the CIOR would still have to be sought before the junction was commissioned . |
| 22 | The last thing South Africa needed was for tourists , especially British tourists , to be murdered on the beaches . |
| 23 | All her feelings had been for Gerry , with the coal-pitted hands , who had never harmed a soul . |
| 24 | The arrangement Sting had signed with Virgin had been for a 50–50 split , rising to 60–40 in Sting 's favour after two years . |
| 25 | The trend of things had been for agricultural land to go out of production because it was easier to earn a living working in Israel . |
| 26 | The lease negotiated was for twenty years at a rental of £20,000 subject to possible increases up to a maximum of £22,000 . |
| 27 | In Scotland the pattern followed was for Regional Councils and constituent Districts . |
| 28 | Whereas the original demand had been for actual ships , the Crown began in the 1590s to ask for money instead . |
| 29 | It made little difference that these needles had been for injections and not for some sinister Chinese purpose . |
| 30 | Bill 's orders had been for Captive Audience to lead Shine On at racing speed over six furlongs , then for them both to stride out for home over the last two furlongs . |