Example sentences of "[noun sg] was for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They constitute an acknowledgment by the delegates , committee and officers that the Association was for the time being inadequately organised and funded for undertaking major tasks on the national scene . |
| 2 | The original deal was for the same time and same sum , but the difference now is that the new contract covers rugby only for the age bracket between 16 and 18 . |
| 3 | The initial deal was for the release of two singles and a potential album deal which has yet to be finalised . ’ |
| 4 | One recommendation was for the older pupils to be divided into four occupational groups : engineering ; commerce ; domestic work ; and industries for which no vocational instruction was necessary . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | The bust , bosom or cleavage was for the Fifties the apotheosis of erogenous zones . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The third lavatory was for the use of the narrow , single-storey house that formed the end of the three-walled courtyard . |
| 9 | Charles Hernu , bombarded the conference delegates with sweet talk on how useful defence research was for the civil sector and how good they were to researchers . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | For a start , much of that earlier patronage was for the benefit of the patrons and not of the public . |
| 12 | His secret ambition was for the Argentine ban to be lifted so he could get to England and avenge Pedro 's death by taking out the English and especially one poker-faced Guards Officer . |
| 13 | The major financial effect was for the Gazette which suffered a £1.3m drop in income against the original 1992 budget . |
| 14 | Without going into matters which might be the subject of the inquiry , can the Secretary of State confirm , first , that there have been recurrent problems with the signalling at either end of the line , as a result of the damp ; and , secondly , the system in case of an emergency and a red light was for the relevant engine drivers physically to get out of the cab and use a telephone near the tunnel ? |
| 15 | In conference with Gerald Gardiner , subsequently Lord Chancellor , who had somewhat late in the day raised his flag as a member of the Labour Party , it was decided that the best course of action was for the Labour Party to be asked to be represented by Gardiner at the Vassall Tribunal and to inform Radcliffe that it had no additional witness to come to him . |
| 16 | The nucleus of each village was for the most part made up of the Frelimo guerillas who had fought in the liberation struggle . |
| 17 | Its architect was J. L. Pearson , a highly accomplished church designer , most of whose work was for the ‘ High Church ’ wing of Anglicanism . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I was also careful to explain BW 's policy as regards cycling on the towpath , and I emphasised that the work was for the benefit of all users and gave Spokes members no rights whatsoever . |
| 20 | I was also careful to explain BW 's policy as regards cycling on the towpath , and emphasised that the work was for the benefit of all users and gave Spokes members no rights whatsoever . |
| 21 | His plan was for the contra leaders to set sail with their manifesto , or a version of it , to Philadelphia from Nicaragua . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The plan was for the Unit to reform in the middle of this year . |
| 24 | The plan was for the financiers to place deals based on the probable impact of the column on the market and then share the profits . |
| 25 | Even worse , the Conservative plan was for the elected councillors for these authorities to be replaced by nominees from the second-tier borough councils , which in London involved the replacement of an elected Labour majority by an indirectly elected Conservative majority . |
| 26 | The cutters and machinists were to remain at the club house for another twelve and eighteen months respectively but the plan was for the printers to move immediately into the new premises . |
| 27 | To get round this , the plan was for the Government to ‘ lease ’ these employees to the railway at less onerous rates . |
| 28 | The ceremony at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum was for the presentation of an old Spitfire that had been hauled out of an English lake and identified as belonging to 71 Squadron the first of the Eagle squadrons formed from American volunteers back in 1940 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | One basket was for the house ; a different basket held larger eggs , chosen to be set for hatching . |