Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] were for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The principal demands were for a 50 per cent increase in wages and pensions , a six-hour working day ( and no night-shifts ) for women , and the bringing to justice of those responsible for the deaths in Shkodër in April [ see p. 38160 ] . |
| 2 | Secretly , under layers and wads of protest , was her admission that he was right , that these things were for the best . |
| 3 | These figures were for the cold season ; the second half will be much better . |
| 4 | This does not show up in the household statistics because many of these stays were for a brief few months right at the end of life . |
| 5 | Demands for licences grew steadily during the fourteenth century , but endowment of the religious orders never regained its earlier level , and alienations were increasingly directed to the establishment of chantries and secular institutions ; by mid-century almost as many licences were for the secular as for the religious churches , but this has more to do with declining enthusiasm for the vastly endowed monastic orders and the growing popular appeal of the mendicants who lived from alms , and not from farming extensive estates . |
| 6 | His first thoughts were for an eighteen month old child and an elderly lodger also in the house . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | And the new tears were for the absolute tenderness she had seen in his eyes . |
| 9 | My original thoughts were for a 3-week tour but after consideration and discussion a longer period seems preferable ; I 'm therefore thinking of 8 weeks , from mid-Feb. to mid-April , but of course if your time is limited you could return independently . |