Example sentences of "the [noun pl] were for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SE claimed that the cylinders were for an Iraqi petrochemical project and that their export had been approved by the UK 's Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) . |
| 2 | An interpreter said later : ‘ The prayers were for the Royal Family and the prince and princess themselves . |
| 3 | The forecasts were for a 28 per cent increase between 1983 and 1993 ( although the demographic shifts noted above may reduce this ) , and indeed by 1989 the increase was already 19 per cent . |
| 4 | of the records were for the last week of April and the first two of May . |
| 5 | of the records were for the third week of September . |
| 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 | All this depended on the fact that the Romans were for the first time in the law of succession experiencing an ‘ open ’ system . |