Example sentences of "was for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cevallos , as foreign minister , was for four months in ignorance of the fact that Spain had ‘ joined ’ the Holy Alliance . |
| 2 | International law recognised that it was for each state to determine the conditions upon which it granted its nationality to ships , subject to there being a genuine link between the flag state and the vessel . |
| 3 | Newbery argued that a more useful approach was for each country to be looked at separately and the level of damage quantified to see how it could be most effectively and economically put right . |
| 4 | So once you knew wh how many degrees it was for each slice of the pie in your pie chart no problem to use your protractor and mark off forty eight degrees , a hundred and forty four , seventy two , thirty six |
| 5 | The main trend was for greater powers for the republics , which were to join the new union on a voluntary basis , choosing the level of involvement which they wanted to have . |
| 6 | A second major middle class concern was for working class parents to accept certain standards and codes of behaviour . |
| 7 | The term was for 26 years paying a one-twelfth to the Lord , save for the first six months when no claim would be made . |
| 8 | Although Charles II had been restored to the leadership of the Anglican church as well as the English state , his own personal religious preference was for Roman Catholicism , and he was thus keen to maintain friendly relations with the dominant Catholic monarch in Europe , Louis XIV . |
| 9 | For rejoinders to the commonsense objections against a moving earth , Wilkins was indebted to Galileo , as he was for striking analogies between the earth and moon . |
| 10 | Such French capital as Poland managed to secure was for specific projects like the new port at Gdynia — which was encouraged by the French to discomfort the Germans as much as to aid the Poles . |
| 11 | Askari Security Services of Norwich said it was for poor work rate . |
| 12 | Another consumer rights champion behind Safe-Buy is Lord Michael Winstanley who was for 18 years the presenter of Granada TV 's long-running ‘ This is Your Right ’ programme . |
| 13 | A chartered accountant , he was for 18 years managing director of Allied-Lyons Embassy Hotels Group , and five years managing director of the PROSIT Hotels and Tourism Consultancy . |
| 14 | In Scotland the pattern followed was for Regional Councils and constituent Districts . |
| 15 | Incontinence , however , was poorly defined ( for solid or liquid stools ) , but we may reasonably suppose that in many cases it was for liquid stools only . |
| 16 | It finishes tomorrow and it was for fifteen days . |
| 17 | I missed very much the man who was for fifteen years our first trombone ; he trained the group to the very highest level . |
| 18 | Mr McLean and other northern area agents were visiting Downing Street you guessed right , his MBE was for political services when Mrs Thatcher and Mr Cecil Parkinson asked anxiously about Conservative prospects in the forthcoming Darlington by-election . |
| 19 | There was never a consensus for them , as there was for political reform , a consensus of middle class and lower class opinion . |
| 20 | The appointment was for six months . |
| 21 | Well there was for six months . |
| 22 | There was for six months when I was there . |
| 23 | The force 's mandate was for six month , and could be extended for a further year at most . |
| 24 | Another recommendation of the Commission was for increased funding for adult education and with gradual increases in its budgetary provision , the Board in 1931 was able to appoint three full-time lectures : Lee in Northamptonshire , Baker in Cambridgeshire and Hardman for university extension local lectures . |
| 25 | The minimum investment was for 100 shares at a price of £1 per share , but , as the initial payment was only 50p per share , members of the public could become shareholders of British Gas for a down-payment as low as £50 . |
| 26 | The Agreement was for five years and matters of detail were to be settled between the respective managers . |
| 27 | Liverpool- born , Oliver was for five years a chorister at St Paul 's Cathedral before going on to study at Oxford University where he met with his first operatic success in The Duchess of Malfi . |
| 28 | They had one son and three daughters ; their son , John Bridge Aspinall , became a QC , as did his grandfather of the same name , and he was for five years the city remembrancer until his early death in 1932 . |
| 29 | Its numbers had increased by 1979 to 3,000 from only 800 a century ago , when it had been expected to disappear : its only use was for bloodless bull-fighting in which ribbons are snatched from the bull 's horns . |
| 30 | The cry by 1901 was for educated men ‘ of good social standing ’ to become ministers : ‘ Such men … are more needed now than before Board Schools provided hearers whose improved education demands preaching of a higher order than formerly . ’ |