Example sentences of "[was/were] in [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We have seen a steady rise with figures just over three times what they were in September for adults seeking advice , ’ Mr. Barnes added . |
| 2 | We were in London for rehearsals at the Globe , and the actors put on the new play for the first time on the 29th of June , 1613 . |
| 3 | The responses of the 228 visitors from outside Edinburgh are set out in Table 4 , below , and show that most of these individuals were in Edinburgh for leisure purposes . |
| 4 | Seven people were reported killed in a series of pre-dawn air raids on two Croat villages , which Yugoslav army commanders said were in retaliation for attacks on an air base in the regional centre of Mostar nearby . |
| 5 | Third , it gave as justification for some of its outrages that they were in retaliation for attacks on the army . |
| 6 | Other unpleasant surprises were in store for lesbians and gays in the Church of England . |
| 7 | So , as the Germans put Britain under pressure to reduce air pollution to protect forests , all the ingredients were in place for conflict and confusion . |
| 8 | Diaz breached Atherstone 's defence at Dorchester ; Raji and Gonzales were in tandem for Boldmere St Michael 's at Walsall Wood ; while Oldbury and Rocester , in the FA Vase against Hinckley Athletic and Burscough respectively , looked to Rossi and Anastasi for goals . |
| 9 | We asked a random selection of women who were in Darlington for market day to tell us how old they were . |
| 10 | The end was in sight for Victoria , and the last departures via Woodhead were on 4th January 1970 . |
| 11 | At the request of the army the Collective State Presidency again held an extraordinary session on May 7 which was attended by Marcovic and the Kadijevic but not by Tudjman , who was in London for talks with United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd . |
| 12 | FA chief Graham Kelly , who was in Spain for England 's friendly , will fly home today to deal with the crisis . |
| 13 | Quoting sources in Amman , the radio reported that the measure was in retaliation for Jordan 's decision to recall its ambassador in September . |
| 14 | May : May 8-11 ; in a tour in support of Middle East peace talks , Bessmertnykh visited Damascus , Tel Aviv ( the first trip to Israel by a Soviet Foreign Minister since the state was founded in 1948 ) , Amman and Cairo ; May 15-19 : the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party , Jiang Zemin , visited Moscow for talks on Sino-Soviet relations ; May 15 : Lev Voronin , a former deputy Chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers , was appointed ambassador to the EC ; May 27 : the last Soviet troops on active duty in Czechoslovakia were withdrawn ; May 28-31 : Primakov was in Washington for talks with US leaders and World Bank and IMF officials to discuss Western aid . |
| 15 | Khan was in Washington for talks with United States officials during which he repeated undertakings not to explode a nuclear weapon or transfer nuclear technology to other countries . |
| 16 | When I first saw myself imitated , I was in shock for days . |
| 17 | A prototype module of the barrier , known by the apt acronym M.O.S.E. , was in position for tests up to a few months ago . |
| 18 | Joanna said : ‘ The wedding was in doubt for hours and Annabel was devastated . |
| 19 | Given the date , it was then a question of working backwards and consulting an old diary ; and I found that during the period in question I was in India for Panorama . |
| 20 | The city was in mourning for Marie-Thérèse de Bourbon ( first wife of the Dauphin Louis ) and it was some time before the prospect of playing at court arose . |
| 21 | Indeed , Alcuin had advised Offa that it was in order for Aethelheard to be consecrated on 21 July 793 by Archbishop Hygeberht , now the senior metropolitan . |
| 22 | wilkinson was quoted saying that his impression was the opposite ( that gazza was in fact for sale ) — i guess it 's a matter of lazio officials heating things a little up … |
| 23 | I WAS in analysis for years because of a traumatic childhood . |
| 24 | I was in Winchester for St Giles ’ Fair last month — ' he paused and shook his head ‘ — but ‘ t was a poor showing this year , half the town still needing to be rebuilt , and the other half with scarce two farthings to rub together . |
| 25 | On July 22 Baker met with President Mubarak of Egypt in Cairo and on July 23 he was in Syria for talks with President Hafez al-Assad , and in the Bekaa valley , Lebanon , for talks with Lebanese President Elias Hrawi . |
| 26 | There can be little doubt that this was in essence for Mrs Whitehouse a symbolic or political victory . |
| 27 | Dent marble was in demand for fireplace surrounds and ornamental and decorative purposes but the trade lapsed and succumbed , like the lead mines of Swaledale , when cheaper foreign imports became available . |
| 28 | I 've just put my house on the market in York I 've chosen the if erm that 's that 's you know the whole taking the whole scene into consideration , but if I was in Bournemouth for instance and buying a house in York and I said I phone three or four estates agents and said , Look please send me information through the post . |
| 29 | ( The remaining 4% , though formally within his responsibility too , was in practice for programmes determined by United Kingdom or European Community policies . ) |
| 30 | TERRY NEILL , former Arsenal , Spurs and Northern Ireland manager , was in Berne for Scotland 's disastrous clash with the Swiss . |