Example sentences of "[was/were] for the " in BNC.
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| 31 | All but two of these records were for the coast or its vicinity . |
| 32 | of the records were for the third week of September . |
| 33 | of the records were for the last week of April and the first two of May . |
| 34 | All records were for the coast . |
| 35 | All spring records except one were for the Downs , but all autumn records for the coast . |
| 36 | Although he extols the yellow of spring , the green of summer , and ‘ the changling dresses of autumnal tints ’ ; these were for the sightseers not the painter . |
| 37 | We believed that flowers were for the living , and Uncle used to often quote some lines of poetry : |
| 38 | They were for the gentle grey shirehorse , whose death he blamed on himself . |
| 39 | Ruth guessed that the seating arrangements were for the benefit of whoever might be watching their departure , and that they would not prevail . |
| 40 | In a rather odd way , 19th-century public schools were just as ideally suited for the fathers of gentlemen as they were for the sons of gentlemen . |
| 41 | Taxpayers ' priorities were for the Revenue to get things right first time , and for problems , where they arise , to be resolved quickly . |
| 42 | Their days and nights were spent together in a large but gloomy chamber , reached by a winding staircase ; and their requests to take the air in the gardens were for the most part ignored . |
| 43 | He guessed they were for the morals group , since neither he nor Mrs Frizzell ever really read a book , and he put them down again , still mystified . |
| 44 | The local transmissions of the External Service were for the many expatriates working in the country who understood little or no Swahili . |
| 45 | An interpreter said later : ‘ The prayers were for the Royal Family and the prince and princess themselves . |
| 46 | The fact that all the workshops in WA and at least half of those in Victoria and New South Wales were for the double bed , shows the quality of knitters involved . |
| 47 | Plain hospital beds with flock mattresses laid on interlaced wire springs were for the junior members of the staff . |
| 48 | The Basques , a people with a unique , non-Latin culture and , to the majority of Spaniards , an incomprehensible language , were for the most part devoutly Catholic and conservative . |
| 49 | The extent of the hidden need met by the Act was demonstrated by the fact that 93.6 per cent of pensions granted in 1912–13 were for the full amount of 5s 0d . |
| 50 | The Bioscope very much approved of the description of the movies as ‘ the drama of the masses , and went on to argue that the whole beauty of the movies was that they were for the first time providing amusement , ‘ the greatest factor in the life of.the masses ’ , to ‘ the millions ‘ who had been ‘ passed over for so many years and considered of no account ’ . |
| 51 | The March examination passed OK but when the Canberra crews sat the October examination they all looked in amazement at the test papers ; they were for the Washington . |
| 52 | This demand was indeed radical since women were for the first time trying to achieve some independence as persons and to exercise some power as individuals in their own right . |
| 53 | The colours used for fresco painting were for the most part easily obtained : red ochre , yellow ochre , black ( either from charred bone or from carbonaceous shale ) and blue ( from a copper-tinted glass ) . |
| 54 | By 1905 , for example , of the 268 beds at the North Wing , only 99 were for the able-bodied . |
| 55 | It was hard to see what calibre the cannon were for the air was already hot enough to shimmer and blur the details of the far guns . |
| 56 | His particular predilections when he started were for the young artists of his won age who were beginning to reject the immediate traditions of their predecessors and experiment with new formulas of expression and technique in the 1940s and 1950s . |
| 57 | These figures were for the cold season ; the second half will be much better . |
| 58 | In Yekaterinburg , which is Mr Isakov 's constituency , 86% were for the president . |
| 59 | JPs were for the most part recruited from the greatest landowners in a county , although commissions of the peace often included a few of the humbler type , possibly men with a legal background who were appointed to do the chores . |
| 60 | It later transpired that all but one of these were for the Bulgarian A team . |