Example sentences of "[noun prp] was for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , anyone like Daphne Sheldrick , who wrote The Orphans of Tsavo about the wild animals she reared in Tsavo National Park , Kenya , where her husband David was for many years the highly successful warden , knows that African elephant calves are easily tamed . |
| 2 | The club was a meeting place for musicians of his era , and Archer Street was for many years the centre of the British dance music business . |
| 3 | Unlike the big tourist hotels , the Savoy was for favoured and important visitors . |
| 4 | Martin was for some years tutor to the MacLeods of Skye , and had also been at one time a scholar at Leiden University in the Netherlands . |
| 5 | Liverpool- born , Oliver was for five years a chorister at St Paul 's Cathedral before going on to study at Oxford University where he met with his first operatic success in The Duchess of Malfi . |
| 6 | Drinking at a pavement café on Ben Yehuda was for each of them a way of signing off from the mission . |
| 7 | Iraq was for some years generally regarded as possessing air superiority , although this was not translated into any particular battlefield advantage . |
| 8 | Gow was for many years a close associate of Margaret Thatcher , the Prime Minister , having been her parliamentary private secretary during the first four years of her premiership in 1979-83 , and a member of her government as Minister of Housing in 1983-85 and a Minister of State at the Treasury from September to November 1985 . |
| 9 | The FISA president said the sanction against Mansell was for this breach of security rules and had nothing to do with his failure to stop after a black flag was waved at him three times . |
| 10 | Glasgow was for long suspicious of ‘ the electricity ’ , and St Enoch 's Station and the General Post Office remained the sole public buildings lit by the new method until the 1890s . |
| 11 | MGM 's Dynamite directed by Cecil B. de Mille was for Daugherty nothing more than a torrid melodrama of conventional silliness but he knew that audiences would love the tremendous cave-in of the coal-mine . |
| 12 | She had thoughtful parents , though , who thought the Grand Canyon was for real and so they put her on the waiting list . |
| 13 | Zanzibar was for many years an Omani-owned territory . |
| 14 | Steve may explain the game at Saint Andrews was for low to ground players . |