Example sentences of "[coord] it was for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or it was for the production crew working on the new children 's series The Borrowers . |
| 2 | I wonder what it 'd be like if the phone suddenly rung and it was for me . |
| 3 | I am unaware of any biography in print , and it was for this reason that I wrote this brief account of the life of a truly great man of God . |
| 4 | Our policy has been to try to build up a great team and not to weaken our playing strength , and it was for this reason that we accepted the offer made . |
| 5 | whilst , if a privilege existed , it was up to the House to decide whether there had been a breach , the existence of the privilege in the first place was for the common law to decide and it was for the courts , and not the House , to declare the common law . |
| 6 | This was my first poem ever written and it was for a daffodil tea in our church . |
| 7 | And it was for my benefit — to show what he was about to do to me . |
| 8 | Councillors had an understandable reluctance to commit themselves to a political course which would deprive them of access to patronage , and it was for this reason that it was necessary for politicians to provide demonstrations of power . |
| 9 | For Sartre ‘ human history ’ was identified with the history of the West , and it was for this reason that Lévi-Strauss contested Sartre 's claim to have established the human foundation of ‘ a structural , historical anthropology ’ for Marxism . |
| 10 | The official line was that ‘ true character of French concessions to Indo-Chinese nationalism and ultimate intentions are clear to Department ’ and it was for this reason that no further substantive concessions involving parliamentary action in France were called for at that time . |
| 11 | If anything should happen to him , there could well be a collapse in Indo-China and it was for this reason that Collins recommended that the US should continue to extend military and economic aid ‘ in order to check the spread of communism in South-East Asia ’ — but only as long as de Lattre was in Indo-China . |
| 12 | Discipline was rigid and we respected it , but resented it too , because of a particular juvenile arrogance that must have been founded on the knowledge that the world was changing a lot more than they realised , and it was for us that it was changing . |
| 13 | And it was for Toby , too , and for the baby itself . |
| 14 | The judge explained to the jury that the interests of the state were those of the government of the day and it was for ministers to decide the policies of the government . |
| 15 | I went to the agents and it was for two thousand Pounds . |
| 16 | ‘ If you 've got the money and it was for a favour lasting a day or two , then why do n't you just tell him the arrangement is ended and let Barbara Coleman leave ? ’ |
| 17 | They could only speak Greek to the Romans , and it was for the Romans to decide whether they wanted an interpreter . |
| 18 | It finishes tomorrow and it was for fifteen days . |
| 19 | They are admittedly themselves valueless and are thrown away and it was for that reason , no doubt , that Upjohn J. was constrained to say that their value lay in the evidence they afforded of success in an advertising campaign . |
| 20 | Only two minutes left when Richard Walker popped up on the proverbial back stick , sounds painful does n't it , and it was for Portsmouth . |
| 21 | And it was for ten thousand pounds sterling . |
| 22 | If he could see the sense behind Darwin 's arguments , it is unlikely that his subscribers would ; and it was for their tastes that he catered . |
| 23 | From late 1813 trade improved , and it was for a time in 1814 brisk again . |
| 24 | He was looking at a fine for parking too long on a meter at the Pier Head and it was for the staggering sum of £720 . |
| 25 | And it was for girls , for girls |
| 26 | This is very clever of Brutus , saying that he loved Caesar more than anybody , and it was for this love that he killed him , to prevent him from the trouble brewing ahead for him . |
| 27 | What he wanted to do was to publicize erm the whole issue , and it was for this purpose that he joined in these campaigns . |
| 28 | We were both sad , but it was for the best . |
| 29 | ‘ But it was for richer or poorer and I 'd be happy to live in a cardboard box if it was with my husband . |
| 30 | There was a right decision and a wrong decision , but it was for the king to make it , and if the wrong one were made Anselm would leave the kingdom . |