Example sentences of "[was/were] a [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | " He probably took the trouble to find out as much as possible about you when he knew that you were a candidate for the job here . |
| 2 | The results were a setback for the SDP , which won most southern states in the local council elections of December 1990 but had since suffered from well-publicized internal feuding . |
| 3 | These meetings were a dress-rehearsal for the first session of the Council . |
| 4 | They were a delight for the charterers in the Bahamian lagoons , but in an Atlantic storm such wide windows could be our death warrants for if Wavebreaker fell off a big wave the glass could be driven out of the windows and the boat be filling with water in seconds , and so I cut and shaped sheet steel shutters that could be bolted over the boat 's glass at the first sign of bad weather . |
| 5 | The results were a victory for the coalition , the Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) , which defeated the ( former communist ) Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP ) by a margin of just over 1 per cent of the vote . |
| 6 | The Scottish Office last week argued its promises stood , and that redundancies were a matter for the university . |
| 7 | The cribs were not the usual constructions of shoe boxes and straw , with small religious figures and matching sets of the Magi ; they were a challenge for the ingenuity and imagination of each section and would often involve large amounts of gravel , stones , concrete and other building materials . |
| 8 | John Major , whose declared policy is to keep inflation between one and four per cent next year , said the figures were a boost for the economy . |
| 9 | The event , held at the leisure centre in Vista Road , Clacton , was a fundraiser for the £7,000 Shopmobility appeal being spearheaded by Tendring District Council . |
| 10 | The build-up training at Easthampstead Park , in Berkshire , was a chance for the group and the two leaders to get to know each other . |
| 11 | Just as the Biesbosch on the Rhine delta was a centre for the Dutch underground opposition to Hitler , so the English wetlands have a long history as centres of resistance . |
| 12 | Nikos was a stickler for the rules . |
| 13 | There was a trend for the multi-national corporations to set up their own courses on a European rather than purely British basis … |
| 14 | The news , given by Chelmsford MP Simon Burns , during a personal visit to their secret homes , was a relief for the refugees of war-torn former Yugoslavia . |
| 15 | ‘ I know it was a shock for the club but I would n't have gone if it meant leaving them in the lurch . |
| 16 | ‘ I know it was a shock for the club but I would n't have gone if it meant leaving them in the lurch . |
| 17 | There was a shock for the SDLP in Newry and Mourne where it lost two seats , reducing its strength to 15 . |
| 18 | Chief among the reforms was a provision for the direct election of Assembly delegates . |
| 19 | The question was whether reimbursement of these fares by the clients was a consideration for the supply of services and , if it was , whether it was liable to Value Added Tax . |
| 20 | It was a rehearsal for the reception of the Prince of Wales this evening . |
| 21 | The miners ' strike was a platform for the exercise of new police tactics to deal with disorder . |
| 22 | The Crown 's practical arguments were that the case was so rare that it could not call for a fundamental reformulation of the law and that it was impossible for their lordships to set limits on the application of the principle which , being a matter of policy , was a question for the legislature . |
| 23 | It was a question for the top , for the Cabinet , for Winston Churchill . |
| 24 | In Harvey ( 1981 ) 72 Cr App R 139 , the Court of Appeal held that whether a threat to kill , rape or maim was a proper means of reinforcing the demand was a question for the jury , as was the question whether the accused believed that he had reasonable grounds . |
| 25 | The Court of Appeal held that whether the officer had taken possession was a question for the jury , and that the answer depended on whether he had made his mind up to take possession so that they would not be removed , or whether he had an open mind and merely wanted to stop the driver getting away without being questioned . |
| 26 | In Greaves [ 1987 ] The Times , 11 July , it was held that it was a question for the jury whether a gap of 17 days between burglary and handling meant that the accused was not the burglar and so could be convicted of handling . |
| 27 | The third was a saloon for the Equerry and Secretary , built in 1957 ( Lot No 30131 ) , replacing ex-LNWR 807 . |
| 28 | Polanski used the club as his base and as an access point to its abounding supply of beautiful women ; just as Hefner 's Playboy mansion in Los Angeles was a magnet for the bright young things of Hollywood , so Lownes established a social whirl that attracted the cream and the elite of off-beat London society , plus some very famous names , eventually to include Nicholson himself . |
| 29 | A subsidiary company can only receive surrendered ACT in an accounting period if it was a subsidiary for the whole of that period ( s 240(l) ) . |
| 30 | The result was a blow for the Liberal Democrats , who polled nearly 1,000 votes less than in the 1987 election . |