Example sentences of "there was [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the beef classes were judged by an Argentinian , M Rodman , who said that he was particularly impressed with the easy-to-manage British breeds like the Angus and Hereford , and that there was scope for wider use of them in his country . |
| 2 | When able men occupied the professorial chairs , there was scope for immense development . |
| 3 | He also said that in the current , 1992 , fiscal year new lending would rise to $23,000-25,000 million , and that there was scope for considerable loans to the Soviet Union . |
| 4 | By the mid-1960s the need was becoming urgent for an overhaul of the traditional tribunals in which the more serious indictable crimes were tried before a High Court Judge , part-time Recorder or chairman of Quarter Sessions , and in 1966 the Government decided that there was substance for another Royal Commission . |
| 5 | At first there was support for this construction from some liberal quarters , encouraged by the government 's commitment to ‘ eliminate ’ over-crowding . |
| 6 | All these studies of the transition from school to work discussed so far had assumed that there was work for young people to enter . |
| 7 | Unsavoury characters lurked at fairs and with the crowds jostling , and the dark , there was cover for more than pickpocketing . |
| 8 | From the early 1780s onwards an increasingly elaborate network of agents and informers kept foreigners and even many important figures in the government under surveillance , and from 1782 there was provision for dangerous political prisoners to be held in complete isolation in special underground cells . |
| 9 | It moved to new buildings in 1930 in Ruskin Road , where there was provision for 360 pupils . |
| 10 | There was provision for any line constructed under both the 1902 and 1903 Acts , shown as single track on the Deposited Plans , to be laid as double track , provided that certain necessary road widenings were carried out . |
| 11 | And then there was money for maimed soldiers , for what they called visited persons , which was the plague , fire and candles for the courts of guards , that was paying for fire and candles for all the little sentinel posts round Oxford . |
| 12 | There was money for silly things . |
| 13 | But when the South lost the war , and there was equality for black people , Uncle Elias left America . |
| 14 | There was room for eight cows in here and every stall was full , but he could see no sign of the half-gipsy girl . |
| 15 | The Association 's chairman , Paul Bell , said there were signs of confidence creeping back into the market but there was room for additional measures if a fullblown recovery was to be seen . |
| 16 | There was room for twelve children . |
| 17 | Some good foresters were at present obtaining 60% of their income from the sale of timber so there was room for better management . |
| 18 | I discovered there was room for 10 bells , so it was just too tempting . |
| 19 | Oresme 's analysis shows that , within the scholastic tradition , there was room for new ideas , even if they were no more than conjectures . |
| 20 | But with Germany one third of the firm 's European profit base still in recession , there was room for continuing concern . |
| 21 | ‘ When we started we felt that there was room for another East End of London author , having publicised ( in my case ) Lena Kennedy before , and Sue having edited her . |
| 22 | But as mopping up operations continued there was disappointment for regular customers . |
| 23 | There was time for that . |
| 24 | There was time for one innings only if you were playing cricket . |
| 25 | As you say , it will soon be Christmas , but I thought there was time for one more letter before then |
| 26 | There was time for domestic forces to shape a new nation without the same constant vigilance of the behaviour of neighbours . |
| 27 | The design team under Hugh Lasson and Misha Black ( both later knighted ) were right in believing that there was hunger for visual stimulation among the British and they got it in the form of sculpture , murals and mobiles by Moore , Hepworth , Piper , Sutherland , Topolski and Epstein as well as a pedestrian precinct which was all grilles and screens and balls and decks and terraces and fountains and colour . |
| 28 | By the time I arrived at B.P. there was need for many more of those whom Peter Calvocoressi calls the Indians , and the net had been cast wider to trawl the less élite from universities other than Oxford and Cambridge . |
| 29 | Because of their size they were unable fully to support a family and so there was need for off-farm employment . |
| 30 | When in 1953 Wyndham Lewis suggested a further campaign to release Pound from confinement , Eliot at first advised against any precipitate step : a number of proposals were being considered — including a letter to President Eisenhower — but he was wary of doing anything from England without being sure that there was approval for such moves in America . |