Example sentences of "was in [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The end was in sight for Victoria , and the last departures via Woodhead were on 4th January 1970 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | FA chief Graham Kelly , who was in Spain for England 's friendly , will fly home today to deal with the crisis . |
| 4 | Quoting sources in Amman , the radio reported that the measure was in retaliation for Jordan 's decision to recall its ambassador in September . |
| 5 | 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Ministers , was appointed ambassador to the EC ; May 27 : the last Soviet troops on active duty in Czechoslovakia were withdrawn ; May 28-31 : Primakov was in Washington for talks with US leaders and World Bank and IMF officials to discuss Western aid . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When I first saw myself imitated , I was in shock for days . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Joanna said : ‘ The wedding was in doubt for hours and Annabel was devastated . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 … |
| 14 | I WAS in analysis for years because of a traumatic childhood . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There can be little doubt that this was in essence for Mrs Whitehouse a symbolic or political victory . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ( The remaining 4% , though formally within his responsibility too , was in practice for programmes determined by United Kingdom or European Community policies . ) |
| 21 | TERRY NEILL , former Arsenal , Spurs and Northern Ireland manager , was in Berne for Scotland 's disastrous clash with the Swiss . |
| 22 | During the 1890s , the mill was in use for corn grinding , in conjunction with Millbottom although , during this decade , Emmanuel Davis moved his extensive furniture business to Days Mill . |
| 23 | This was in use for flour milling up to the 1930s , and records show a mill on that site since at least 1376 . |
| 24 | at Claire 's , yeah , er , she 'd been a passenger and somebody had come into them and oh she was in a hell of a state , all , lucky to be alive really , she nearly lost erm , her arm and everything , lost , nearly lost the use of her arm , she 's had a lot of facial surgery stuff and that and all her teeth had been knocked out and oh she was in hospital for months and months |