Example sentences of "was for " in BNC.
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| 1 | For him the synthesis was asymptote towards which he was for ever approaching without ever quite reaching it ; it was a reality , incapable of complete realization . |
| 2 | The main need of these artists was for good opportunities to exhibit their work ; unlike the equally celebrated group Die Brücke ( The Bridge ) they did not work closely together . |
| 3 | It was for me . |
| 4 | Having been lucky with the only real audition I did which was for the RSC , I ca n't really complain about it . |
| 5 | In fact , whereas the parallel protestant movement of evangelical revival was for all people , and the issue tended to be decisive , catholic spirituality diverged on both points . |
| 6 | Morality was for the laity , whose life was dominated by the battle against mortal sin , and who therefore lived under the threat of hell and were always at risk . |
| 7 | Of course , it was for the church to decide what constituted a spiritual or moral matter . |
| 8 | There was one vital breakthrough for the nationalist consciousness , though there still remains some doubt as to how deep this was for the Fianna Fáil party : all the parties committed themselves to the recognition of the protestant — loyalist group as having legitimate aspirations and affirmed the need for the recognition of ‘ two sets of legitimate rights ’ coexisting in the island as a whole : ‘ Constitutional nationalists are determined to secure justice for all traditions … |
| 9 | The Irish hierarchy immediately campaigned against what was for them a drastic solution . |
| 10 | ‘ All the same , ’ she said , ‘ all I meant was for her to break a leg . ’ |
| 11 | It hit me just how right Anne had been when she said that teaching was the only job I knew — and how horribly ill-equipped I was for anything else . |
| 12 | Going back to the railway station was for the moment out of the question , just in case I bumped into someone who recognized me . |
| 13 | There was a knock on the door in the early hours of the morning , she had curlers in her hair , and my father , thinking it was for him , told her not to panic . |
| 14 | Because of these methods of production he is also able to make special tools to order , one such recent order was for hooked turning tools . |
| 15 | Two fine oak tables were missing , and the space was for me to fill . |
| 16 | Petipa 's orders to Tchaikovsky were sacrosanct because the composer knew that if that ‘ dictator ’ did not approve the music would have to be changed ( as it was for The Nutcracker . ) |
| 17 | It was for such reason that most of Petipa 's famous pas de deux take place centre stage , whilst those of Ashton and MacMillan cover the whole area as befits their more flowing lyrical styles , |
| 18 | If the game was for high stakes , if Pound 's livelihood was at stake , the more reason for playing the game circumspectly . |
| 19 | Certainly it was for Pound . |
| 20 | When he has tovarisch say , ‘ Nothing I build ’ , this is to be understood not allegorically but literally : working of stone , either architecturally or sculpturally , was for Pound the register of culture — a conviction which he shared in his lifetime with few except the British art-critic whom he knew and esteemed , Adrian Stokes . |
| 21 | The only way to remove the Government was for Labour to win the next general election . |
| 22 | Maybe it was for that reason that the party leader singled Mr Prescott 's past year performance out for praise in an interview in The Sunday Correspondent yesterday , calling him , chummily , ‘ Johnny ’ . |
| 23 | It was for the party refusing to disclose to establish his right to refuse . |
| 24 | The promise was for an own-brand Minder ; cocky and cockney like the original — low- or middle-brow entertainment with a high gloss . |
| 25 | In the nineteenth century , the Goose and Burial Clubs were the forerunner of the social security system and the welfare state — the goose was for Christmas , the burial speaks for itself . |
| 26 | Serjeant was then stricken with severe arthritis and was for a period chair-bound . |
| 27 | ‘ If Haines recommended the Jockey Club should be abolished we would have to consider it and if we felt it was for the benefit of racing we would do it , ’ Lord Hartington said . |
| 28 | The face was hardest to tan , and this model , which was for professionals and cost £5,912 plus VAT , featured three facial tanning units , one to tan the front of the face and two others to tan the sides . |
| 29 | Mr Patten spent much of yesterday emphasising that he wanted to respect local decisions , and that once the regions and his department had worked out overall allocations , it was for local electorates to decide where they put the bricks and mortar . |
| 30 | The Foxley Wood project from Consortium Developments which Mr Patten 's predecessor said he was ‘ minded ’ to allow was for 4,800 new houses in a large shallow quarry and conifer plantation . |