Example sentences of "[noun pl] were for [art] [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 | I remember a morning like that in Derbyshire … a morning with so much Day-Glo orange cardboard sprouting on poles from so many fields that by 11am I was near suicide — a mood that ended with the discovery that the posters were for a popular brand of fertiliser . |
| 7 | of the records were for the third week of September . |
| 8 | of the records were for the last week of April and the first two of May . |
| 9 | In the modern age , institutions outside the family have been created to administer public affairs and women were for a long time expressly excluded . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Women were for the first time identified in their own right as potential land reform beneficiaries . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | His first thoughts were for an eighteen month old child and an elderly lodger also in the house . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | All this depended on the fact that the Romans were for the first time in the law of succession experiencing an ‘ open ’ system . |