Example sentences of "[noun sg] was for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tears stung her eyes a moment at the thought of her sister losing her identity ; Jezrael asked herself if the grief was for Ches or selfishly for her own loss . |
| 2 | LEEL 's investment was for feasibility work into the inaugural event , and Standard Life has yet to extend its commitment beyond 1992 . |
| 3 | Although the Club was for Brakspear 's an outlet for their products without many responsibility of property up-keep , their generosity was far in excess of what might be expected on strictly commercial terms and doubtless when their relationship and arrangements were terminated in 1983 , the Club 's former President , John Chalcraft , also the Brewery 's retired Managing Director , must have felt some regret . |
| 4 | This department was for years managed by John Aldersley @ £6 : 0s. : 0d. per month and Daniel Bowden at £5 : 0s. : 0d . |
| 5 | But it was a very distinctive and pervasive tone : the Hollywood casting couch was for starlets in the States and stud boys in London . |
| 6 | His successful bid was for £190,000 although he had made a higher prior offer which had been turned down . |
| 7 | But Bradford coach Peter Fox said the bid was for £60,000 plus prop Steve Molloy and centre Carl Gibson . |
| 8 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 9 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 10 | Prior to the Children Act 1989 coming into operation on 14 October 1991 , the practice was for justices to announce their decision in the most simple terms , saying that they made a care order or a custody order , as the case might be . |
| 11 | Abstract 3's intention was for companies to include , in their calculation of a gain or loss on disposal of a business , any goodwill previously written off against reserves . |
| 12 | The intention was for students to complete a short initial destinations questionnaire as they approached the end of their course , and it was suggested that this might be done in the last formal course session , or when projects were handed in ( if appropriate ) . |
| 13 | Kitchen travail was for reward ; now you get gratification without labour . |
| 14 | The other positive vote was for regionalism . |
| 15 | Mr Harty added he had seen signs saying fishing was for members only but had not taken any notice of them . |
| 16 | The obvious alternative was for New York to take over from London , but in financial matters , as in military ones , America was not yet prepared to undertake the role of world leadership which Britain could no longer fulfil . |
| 17 | We are able to calculate the population for the late 17th century when a census was taken throughout Kent to enumerate the various religious bodies i.e. the number of Conformists , Catholics and Nonconformists , the return for Hailing showing 60 Conformists , no Catholics or Nonconformists , so allowing this figure was for adults only and allowing an average of 40 children for 60 adults this gives us a total of 100 . |
| 18 | The original ending was for Pip to return to the village on the wedding day of Joe and Biddy , he actually intended on going back to ask for Biddy 's hand in marriage , but receives forgiveness , from both of them . |
| 19 | Canon Anthony Harvey , sub-dean at Westminster Abbey , said in an article in Theology magazine that the Church should rethink its attitude to extra-marital sex and whether marriage was for life . |
| 20 | The bureaucracy was for Marx the most important instrument by which such domination was exercised . |
| 21 | His last great work was for Robin Hood Prince of Thieves . |
| 22 | The proposal was for Taiwan to bail out Costa Rica 's relatively small debt of US$1,500 million . |
| 23 | For the OECD 's European members as a whole , the projection was for growth of only 1.4 per cent in 1992 and 2.4 per cent in 1993 , with unemployment at 9.3 per cent in both years . |
| 24 | As a stage actor his greatness was for Heroes : as a screen actor too — Alexander , Antony , Becket , Trotsky : or Anti-heroes — George in Who 's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf ? , |
| 25 | The original plan was for Seawitch to be delivered to the marina by the tenth and we 'd fly in to join her there . ’ |
| 26 | The emergency plan was for Giles , fingers crossed , to take the tube from Heathrow to Hammersmith , where we 'd be waiting to pick him up . |
| 27 | The City of London plan was for students in the first semester ( sixteen weeks ) to take three basic courses , followed by a second semester in which three introductory courses stemming from the basic courses would be followed . |
| 28 | ‘ The plan was for Bryce to drive up and get them , but he 's up to his eyes in trying to draw substantial amounts of water from our well . |
| 29 | The plan was for Pete and Michaela to film a normal Hacienda night fly-on-the-wall-style , with local hero Mike Pickering as the DJ . |
| 30 | The plan was for Richard and Philip to meet at Vézelay on 1st April 1190 and then to leave together for the Holy Land . |