Example sentences of "were for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Helmets and unbelted tunics were for the despised ‘ county men ’ , ‘ those sheep-dippers up the road in the sticks ’ whom we continually used to reassert our own status by looking on them as ‘ hicksville country cousins ’ and definitely not ‘ real polises ’ . |
| 2 | After this , Pound 's relations with England and the English were for the most part an aspect of his relations with that one of his erstwhile protégés who had become , surprisingly , a pillar of the English establishment — Eliot , editor of the Criterion . |
| 3 | Postmarks were for the most part no further north than the Midlands . |
| 4 | It might seem that so artificial a superiority was certain to prove as transient as the hegemonies that it had replaced , although those in whose hands power lay were for the most part undaunted by the new challenges to Britain 's position that they sensed … |
| 5 | It was less clear what their ultimate intentions were for the company . |
| 6 | The development plans which they produced in the first decade of independence were for the most part competent , well thought out and well presented . |
| 7 | Once academics and scientists kept in touch by letter and ‘ corresponding members ’ of learned societies were for the most part never seen . |
| 8 | Not only had Khrushchev denounced Stalin 's crimes ; the new warriors of perestroika , including Mikhail Gorbachev himself , were for the most part the Khrushchev generation , whose youthful idealism had coincided with that small post-Stalin thaw . |
| 9 | There were some comparatively small reductions to the Housing Benefit budget but the major savings — which ran into billions of pounds — were for the 1990s and the next century . |
| 10 | Those whom they encountered were for the most part leading precarious lives ; they lacked the leisure , the mental energy , even the vocabulary , for speculation about the great issues of heaven and hell , death and judgement . |
| 11 | Secretly , under layers and wads of protest , was her admission that he was right , that these things were for the best . |
| 12 | The floors were for the most part tiled , large patterned tiles , not unattractive , but in need of thorough cleaning . |
| 13 | Among the Zuwaya history was not a specialized occupation ; the relations were for the most part those of patrilineal descent . |
| 14 | The Justices of the Forest were for the most part important men who can have devoted a limited amount of time to their Forest duties . |
| 15 | Henceforth the Justices of the Forest were for the most part great barons , who often held extensive estates in or near the forests they administered . |
| 16 | True , not all changes were for the good . |
| 17 | Mr Smith , whose team are 6–1 outsiders for the Cup , agrees with the bookmakers in rating Liverpool even stronger favourites tonight than they were for the first meeting . |
| 18 | In reminding himself that his responsibilities were for the President , he recalled the way that Mariana had looked at the old man that first day when he had met them out on the dock , the President casting for bonefish . |
| 19 | Despite the Party programme and frequent reiteration of the line , the record in practice seemed appalling — ranging from the Russian colonists , operating under the banners of Soviet power and universal freedom ; the arbitrary and cruel behaviour of raw troops operating in alien lands and in danger , far from the watching eyes of Moscow ; the role of former Tsarist officers whose instincts were for the patriotic defence of all the territories of the former empire , without concession to local nationalism ; to the contempt of the Bolshevik ultra-Left for all forms of nationalism . |
| 20 | That particular luxury did not appear until M. Georges Nagelmackers had copied Mr Pullman and introduced them in 1883 , and even then they were for the rich who could afford to travel on the ‘ Orient Express ’ . |
| 21 | I had suggested in the note that , as it was then three-fifteen , rather than their breaking camp , one of them should drive back and take me to where they were for the night and back to the village next morning . |
| 22 | One of his successors , Lord Fisher , explained that gaiters were for the restriction of blood circulation and possibly accounted for the number of swollen heads among their wearers , but he added that , ‘ I myself find them a very comfortable kind of bondage ’ . |
| 23 | The costumes were for the most part composed of homespun cloth of native dye , though now and again gay neckerchiefs — the manufacture of the south country — gave liveliness to the head ; while now and again a bright-coloured shawl was pinned across the shoulders of the women . |
| 24 | ‘ A ’ were with dressable wounds for the medical wards , ‘ B ’ were for the theatre , as they had wounds needing operative treatment , ‘ C ’ were for as much morphia as we could give them for a quiet inevitable death , ‘ D ’ were corpses . |
| 25 | All this depended on the fact that the Romans were for the first time in the law of succession experiencing an ‘ open ’ system . |
| 26 | On either side of the gangway doors were small doors on the floor level ; these were for the double purpose of allowing a hosepipe to be brought through from the line for washing out purposes , and also to allow free escape of water . |
| 27 | The trains were designed to accommodate patients in the central vehicles , those at either end were for the convenience of the staff , stores , etc. , and in the military trains , the ward or hospital cars had a pharmacy car in the centre . |
| 28 | Ordinary arrangements for working the line were for the time suspended . |
| 29 | Nearly all records were for the sea or the immediate vicinity of the coast . |
| 30 | All records were for the coast , except for one shot from a party of six at Weir Wood Reservoir on 18 March 1962 and a total of five at Arlington Reservoir between 1973 and 1975 . |