Example sentences of "[was/were] a [noun] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Working party interim reports , Secretary of State reactions , draft materials and final publications were all sent direct to schools but , unlike the organization of assessment , the mapping out of the curriculum and its proper support through staffing , books and other resources , time and leadership were a matter for heads and curriculum leaders . |
| 2 | He said payments to those who lost money deposited in the bank were a matter for liquidators . |
| 3 | Mrs Travers and Mrs Patel had shown flair for public relations from the beginning ; and the beginning for them had been shortly after the famed conversation in Sainsbury 's , when they organised a summer procession in honour of family values in a South London borough particularly hard hit by both government spending cuts and feminists insisting that ‘ family values ’ were a euphemism for women doing the housework . |
| 4 | It is , and that is the advantage of Kuwait , and that is one thing which which perhaps the world should appreciate , that we were a haven for ex-patriots to come there and make a living and work . |
| 5 | Limited as my graces are , I was a stickler for manners and etiquette , which my Dad-in-law thought of as ‘ turnin' 'em into poofs ’ . |
| 6 | Warning that he would not be so lenient in the future , Mr Peter said it seemed to him that there was a warning for operators here generally , if they decided to go to a tachograph analysis agent . |
| 7 | And I thought well , even if it was a voucher for pads or owt , I mean , they 'll come in for either Lianne |
| 8 | A large-scale map was pinned to one wall and there was a blackboard for briefings . |
| 9 | There was a vogue for bidets in California some years ago but he thinks they are primarily symbolic as jacuzzis have become . |
| 10 | Its wharf near Tower Bridge , London , was a terminus for steam-boats to or from towns situated in the Thames estuary . |
| 11 | Part of it , some writers supposed , was a longing for heroes in an age without them , for cleavers of Gordian knots ( as the Wall Street Journal called North ) possessed of simple and shining certitudes ; at the end of North 's testimony even Inouye concluded that he had become another man destined for some piece of important marble in Washington , alongside Lincoln . |
| 12 | She said it was a Budget for jobs , providing 100,000 additional training and employment opportunities at a cost of £230 million . |
| 13 | It was a struggle for bites in the Leeds Shimano Open on the Aire at Leeds where anglers had to dodge floating ice . |
| 14 | There was a struggle for conversions : one or two people professed to give their lives to Christ but soon fell away . |
| 15 | It was a night for men and we had a lot of men out there . |
| 16 | The head thought that many reports were highly descriptive and rather thin on evaluative comment and most of the heads of department I interviewed accepted that there was a tendency for reports to be largely or entirely descriptive : |
| 17 | The consequence of this approach was a tendency for companies to be inward-looking . |
| 18 | In the event , catering and laundry work was not a field in which private sector contractors made many successful bids , and there was a tendency for bids to be less serious or successful in northern areas than in the South ( Mohan , 1988a ) . |
| 19 | After the second oil shock , for example , there was a tendency for reserves to be kept in dollars , primarily because of the relatively high interest rates being offered on dollar deposits at the time , and so during the early 1980s the dollar was a strong currency . |
| 20 | Sebba and Wootton ( 1984 : 8 – 9 ) concluded on the basis of London English/Creole switching data which they studied , that there was a tendency for speakers to use a switch from Creole to London English within a turn " to change from the main theme of the conversation to some kind of subroutine or secondary material : a check on shared information , a search for a missing name or date , a comment indicating how the adjacent material should be interpreted . " |
| 21 | Yes , it was a depot for years , then they went back to the Tower of London , where they were formed , the Tower of London . |
| 22 | It was a day for jeans and a T-shirt , she decided after a quick look at the sky — a mottled jigsaw of blue and white . |
| 23 | In Joan Wake 's book The Brudenells of Deene one reads that ‘ not the least of John , Duke of Montagu 's many attractive qualities was a love for animals , which led him to maintain a hospital for sick dogs at his house in Ditton Park in Buckinghamshire ’ . |
| 24 | His was a scheme for trains in a drain . |
| 25 | Among the three richest men in Billingsgate ward in 1640 , he was a commissioner for contributions in London , Middlesex , and Westminster ( 1642 ) , and for customs ( 1643–7 ) , a plum of parliamentary finance . |
| 26 | Well I think that it is possible that as a result of the reporting of the Shadow Cabinet elections , that the sense was out in the public that somehow this was a setback for women , and that Labour |
| 27 | The final statement issued at the end of the summit represented a victory for the more confrontational line encouraged by Iraq and the PLO , and was a setback for moderates such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia . |
| 28 | Folded into the page of Vico on which the passage appeared was a bill for candles on the back of which Ash had written : ‘ The individual appears for an instant , joins the community of thought , modifies it and dies ; but the species , that dies not , reaps the fruit of his ephemeral existence . ’ |
| 29 | War was a recourse for Spaniards hoping eventually for radical solutions to Spain 's long term economic and political problems . " |
| 30 | There was a canteen for snacks in the building but they preferred to go to a bar in rue Pigalle where an Englishman , Fred Payne , would dish up their favourite meal which was still egg and chips . |