Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] was for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I came and , and I did n't think Harlow was for me because I , it was all very built up and lots of roundabouts but the people , the partners were so lovely and er I saw some of the patients and I thought they were very lovely too , so this is where I 've been . |
| 2 | The main requirement , says Candle was for a system that could intelligently suggest answers to bottlenecks or problems , and if required implement the necessary changes . |
| 3 | Mr Harty added he had seen signs saying fishing was for members only but had not taken any notice of them . |
| 4 | The final job that needed doing was for the trip to be advertised and participants sought . |
| 5 | Since financial , technical , and geographical constraints did not permit efforts to be made to bring their sewage works into compliance with the existing standards ( even if time had been available ) , the only other means of demonstrably maintaining compliance was for the agencies to change the standards to fit the existing discharges . |
| 6 | Cos I would n't , the only reason I kept stoom was for my redundancy , it was only six hundred quid , but every ha'penny I want to get off them , do you know what I mean ? |
| 7 | Instead he went on to tell them that the shortest time they kept pupils was for two years but that usually they tried to move people back into mainstream at the time for transfer to middle/upper school . |
| 8 | However , the sight of two women making love was less of a turn-off for women viewers than the sight of two men making love was for male viewers . |
| 9 | That was his happiness , to talk to a captured ear was for him the thrill of seeing the Commandant 's office roofless and destroyed . |
| 10 | The object of the all-expenses paid trip was for Mr Dorman to pick up some tips from the Japanese to promote musical learning among children . |