Example sentences of "[noun sg] was for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Llanthony Warehouse was for many years a showroom and store for Western Trading Co . |
| 2 | Lot of shop lifting was for that reason . |
| 3 | But difficult as the schism was for many workers and indeed activists to understand or justify , its far-reaching ramifications had already begun to emerge . |
| 4 | Madeira wine was for many years the favourite wine of the Russian Court , and one of the Krohn family had been food-taster to the Tsar . |
| 5 | My main aim was for some relief to the back pain that I had had for many years but , having tried many other so-called ‘ back pain relief techniques ’ , without much success ( some worked for a short while , others not at all or even made the pain worse ) , I was not too optimistic . |
| 6 | But on that particular winter 's night I am recollecting the dining room was for some reason out of use , and Lord Darlington was dining with a solitary guest — I believe it was Sir Richard Fox , a colleague from his lordship 's Foreign Office days — in the vastness of the banqueting hall . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Basil was a true advocate of the view that Art was for all people . |
| 9 | Comdex/Spring in Chicago last week was for all intents and purposes a Microsoft Corp event , all the energy and sparkle belonging to the Windows World side of the house , OS/2 being a footsore also-ran and Unix not even showing up for the race . |
| 10 | He had a formidable reputation as a hard , cryptic , ruthless man whose god was perfection and whose greatest intolerance was for any weakness or sentiment which undermined it ; but there was something in his face as he looked at me which was very like kindness . |
| 11 | Any attempt , in the period between the two World Wars , to raise the school-leaving age or to provide secondary education on a more generous scale was for these reasons bound to encounter sustained political opposition . |
| 12 | Newbery argued that a more useful approach was for each country to be looked at separately and the level of damage quantified to see how it could be most effectively and economically put right . |
| 13 | Elgar 's recording of his Falstaff with the LSO was for some reason in a separate release category . |
| 14 | A lot of prostitution was for that reason . |
| 15 | Ingolstadt was for some centuries the principal seat of the Bavarian dukes when Munich was not much more than a village . |
| 16 | But this monitoring was for many students inconsistent with their future leading roles in Chinese industry , commerce and society in general . |
| 17 | Work in this field was for many years hampered by a lack of techniques sufficiently sensitive to detect changes in the solutions under study and by a rigid and over-simplified view of the nature of solutions . |
| 18 | In the courtyard , a 14th-century half-timbered and thatched roof building was for many centuries the local courthouse where justice was meted out . |
| 19 | The abolition of the tied cottage was for many years the notorious ‘ hardy annual ’ of TUC and Labour Party conferences but reform of the system was pushed persistently aside . |
| 20 | Even without insisting on the strict claim that inference from fact to value is logically inadmissible , a claim which since Hume has been a commonplace , and after G. E. Moore 's analysis of the Naturalistic Fallacy was for some time an orthodoxy , it has been convenient to stay out of range of standard criticisms by showing that we can get along well enough without resorting to this kind of inference . |
| 21 | However , teaching was for all levels of junior doctors together . |