Example sentences of "[ex0] was [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was psychoanalysis for the status-conscious and assertiveness training for those with low self-esteem . |
| 2 | In the confusion of scolding that followed , Charles reflected that maybe there was hope for the family after all . |
| 3 | The coverage of the new business park was encouraging , however , as it showed that Scotswood had not been forgotten , and there was hope for a better future . |
| 4 | There were more puris — a whole basketful — eaten with hot spicy potatoes , fried in mustard oil brought back from Aula , and there was rice for everyone , and an emerald green soup of wild young ka kani leaves . |
| 5 | THERE was relief for Steve Perryman 's Watford and disappointment for Charlton yesterday . |
| 6 | It is clear from the conversation that there was sympathy for the person involved because it was easy for them to place themselves in that position , allowing the event to be normalized . |
| 7 | There was sympathy for Hitler himself , who was continually being let down by his old compatriots . |
| 8 | Some of the beef classes were judged by an Argentinian , M Rodman , who said that he was particularly impressed with the easy-to-manage British breeds like the Angus and Hereford , and that there was scope for wider use of them in his country . |
| 9 | Consultants for the pressure group Transport 2000 claimed in 1987 that there was scope for transferring some 888 to 1,644 heavy goods vehicles per day from road to rail . |
| 10 | Faced with a much reduced market for heavy trucks in Europe ( including the UK ) in the early part of the 1980s , talks were began between Leyland Vehicles and GM 's Bedford Trucks in 1984 to see if there was scope for collaboration between the two companies . |
| 11 | When able men occupied the professorial chairs , there was scope for immense development . |
| 12 | Local government was inefficient and lacked leaders of calibre ; the civil service was too amateurish ; the House of Commons needed a strong committee system ; policy coordination and planning were poor ; and many felt that there was scope for reform with respect to the redress of individual grievances against the state . |
| 13 | He also said that in the current , 1992 , fiscal year new lending would rise to $23,000-25,000 million , and that there was scope for considerable loans to the Soviet Union . |
| 14 | The library was empty except for an elderly man pottering in Biography and a couple of schoolchildren in the reference section ; there was opportunity for what Joyce called a natter , and no escaping it . |
| 15 | There was opportunity for maladministration in terms of both efficiency and peculation . |
| 16 | There was bronze for the Oxford powerboat team of Dave Arthur and Pete Little in the world championships … they also took bronze in the European 's two weeks ago … |
| 17 | There was bronze for the Oxford powerboat team of Dave Arthur and Pete Little in the world championships … they also took bronze in the European 's two weeks ago … |
| 18 | By the mid-1960s the need was becoming urgent for an overhaul of the traditional tribunals in which the more serious indictable crimes were tried before a High Court Judge , part-time Recorder or chairman of Quarter Sessions , and in 1966 the Government decided that there was substance for another Royal Commission . |
| 19 | Thus the interior contained only a single row of nave arcade columns ( Plate 21 ) and the comparative narrowness of the plan meant that there was space for only a range of shallow ancillary rooms — stores , bathrooms and laundry ( Fig 44 ) — on the north side of the ground-floor flats access corridor once dwellings of suitable size , restricted to the spans of the nave arcade bays , had been accommodated . |
| 20 | Therefore , while there was support for hunger marches and the General Strike , there was nearly always an emphasis placed upon the constitutional nature of such conflict and , in any case , the working-class interests were always operated through the trade unions to the Labour Party , which emphasized its acceptance of parliamentary politics . |
| 21 | There was support for Mr Gould from Mr David Blunkett , local government spokesman and a member of Labour 's national executive . |
| 22 | At first there was support for this construction from some liberal quarters , encouraged by the government 's commitment to ‘ eliminate ’ over-crowding . |
| 23 | There was support for coalition in the North and in Scotland , where local cooperation was pushing back municipal socialism in 1920–21 , and also in Birmingham , where Austen Chamberlain traded on the family name and Neville brooded uneasily on the course of events . |
| 24 | Here there was support for Fujimori , based on the belief that his Japanese immigrant origins made him more sympathetic . |
| 25 | There was support for calls for equality of sacrifice . |
| 26 | There was work for everyone . |
| 27 | All these studies of the transition from school to work discussed so far had assumed that there was work for young people to enter . |
| 28 | Provost John Cunningham admitted that Main had not possessed a commission as watchman and was indeed an extraordinary officer employed only when there was work for him to perform , but there seems little reason to doubt that Main 's removal was intended to serve the political interest of the Haldanes , for his removal was not an isolated case , and , moreover , when the Hamilton salt works resumed operations the excise supervisors did not in fact restore Main to his old post , but appointed an individual named Curinan to the vacancy . |
| 29 | Suddenly there was work for everybody and the deaf community took full advantage of this change of climate , as reported in the 1944 annual report : The effect of the war on industry has given the deaf and dumb opportunities such as they had never enjoyed for many years and it is with great pleasure that the committee places on record the excellent work the deaf Have done . |
| 30 | Second , although Ellis and Muller found no difference between their distinctiveness and observation training conditions , there was evidence for a superiority of the distinctiveness group over one given equivalence training in which they had to apply one label to half of the shapes and another label to the rest . |