Example sentences of "[noun pl] were for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An interpreter said later : ‘ The prayers were for the Royal Family and the prince and princess themselves . |
| 2 | Now the depot office the they in those days controlled what a man 's duties were for the next day and a man did n't know what he was on until about twelve o'clock one day what he was on the next day . |
| 3 | These ‘ composite ’ boats were for the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company . |
| 4 | These figures were for the cold season ; the second half will be much better . |
| 5 | And the new tears were for the absolute tenderness she had seen in his eyes . |
| 6 | of the records were for the third week of September . |
| 7 | of the records were for the last week of April and the first two of May . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Women were for the first time identified in their own right as potential land reform beneficiaries . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | All this depended on the fact that the Romans were for the first time in the law of succession experiencing an ‘ open ’ system . |