Example sentences of "was for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little damage had been done , all it needed was for the cargo to be reassembled , but , while several tourists were rushing energetically around attempting to do this , the drivers of the carts had taken time off to chat . |
| 2 | By 1627 Buckingham 's pro-Catholic foreign policy had collapsed , and he was bent on a French war ; the need now was for the service of men with enough local influence to raise money for this purpose . |
| 3 | The specific version of this hypothesis tested by SPAR was for the problem of anaphor resolution in the task of paraphrasing simple English stories . |
| 4 | The House of Lords held that the question whether the conduct was prejudicial to the interests of the state was for the court and not for the jury . |
| 5 | Held , allowing the appeal , that in the exercise of its inherent jurisdiction the court would not order a medical practitioner to treat his patient in a manner contrary to his clinical judgment and professional duty ; that the proper approach , pending any final decision , was for the court to consider the options available to it in exercising its inherent powers and to make such order as best served the child 's true interests , and it would be wrong to apply the principles governing the grant of interlocutory injunctions in civil proceedings ; that , further , the judge 's order was defective in that it failed to specify the precise requirements imposed on the health authority and to take sufficient account of that authority 's distribution of resources in its patient care ; and that , accordingly , the order would be set aside ( post , pp. 516B–G , 517D–F , 518E–F , H — 519C , E–H , 520B–C , E–F ) . |
| 6 | It was for the court to : |
| 7 | She saw how it was for the others : that they were suffering while we , fortunate as we were , had enough . |
| 8 | Further institutional integration would depend on political circumstances , and the aim was for the Krajina Assembly 's mandate to be endorsed by the Serbian Assembly . |
| 9 | Mrs Metcalfe said : ‘ The money was for the electricity bill . |
| 10 | whilst , if a privilege existed , it was up to the House to decide whether there had been a breach , the existence of the privilege in the first place was for the common law to decide and it was for the courts , and not the House , to declare the common law . |
| 11 | The reform of censorship ( 1865 ) was based on the principle that it was for the courts to decide when the press had broken the law , and pre-publication censorship was significantly reduced . |
| 12 | The Attorney-General , while submitting that such use of Parliamentary material would breach article 9 , accepted that it was for the courts to determine the legal meaning and effect of article 9 . |
| 13 | It was for the juy to tie up the loose ends , unemotionally . |
| 14 | On the south wall the memorial was for the infantry regiments . |
| 15 | one were the one was for the artillery and one was for the infantry . |
| 16 | This last criterion was applied in the Charter Consolidated Ltd/Anderson Strathclyde Ltd Report ( 1982 ) , where the concern was for the effects of the merger on employment in an area of Scotland which already had high unemployment . |
| 17 | Having been lucky with the only real audition I did which was for the RSC , I ca n't really complain about it . |
| 18 | In Committee the alternative proposal advanced by the Hon. Member for Dumfries was for the powers the Scottish transport users consultative committee to be extended . |
| 19 | In the higher price range , the most notable result was for the El Greco ‘ Disrobing of Christ ’ ( lot 309 ) , a preparatory study for the work of that subject in Toledo Cathedral , which made a new record for the artist at £1.7 million ( $3.1 ; est. £1.5–2.5 million ) . |
| 20 | Perhaps we should not look for too deep a political explanation : ostracism was for the man whose leadership had been rejected — which might happen for reasons of style rather than content — and whose disapproving presence was an obstruction and a reproach . |
| 21 | It was for the man who looked after the sewage outfall ; he had to be here to open the sluice whenever the tide was right . |
| 22 | The idea , according to one report , was for the capital 's defenders to surrender their arms to the UN , for the Serbs to keep theirs but to pull back from the city , and for the UN to create a ‘ security belt ’ between . |
| 23 | He stopped speaking for a moment , like a man walking who comes to a brink ; perhaps it was an artful pause , but it made the stars , the night , seem to wait , as if story , narration , history , lay imbricated in the nature of things ; and the cosmos was for the story , not the story for the cosmos . |
| 24 | So er the forty pounds was for the update of the license to erm er an I B M compatible . |
| 25 | MARKS & Spencer has just reported half-year profits up by a fifth , yet many investors will have been mystified to note that the stock market reaction was for the share price to fall back a bit . |
| 26 | It was for the cost of having the floor relaid and also for consequential losses ( i.e. lost profits arising from lost production while the factory was closed to enable the floor to be relaid ) . |
| 27 | Stage shows made Leonard Bernstein a very rich man , but he said he cared little for the money , his great love was for the music . |
| 28 | The initial deal was for the release of two singles and a potential album deal which has yet to be finalised . ’ |
| 29 | He could tell her face to face how sorry he was for the incident of the previous night . |
| 30 | Since financial , technical , and geographical constraints did not permit efforts to be made to bring their sewage works into compliance with the existing standards ( even if time had been available ) , the only other means of demonstrably maintaining compliance was for the agencies to change the standards to fit the existing discharges . |