Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Technical schools were for those who had a technical , practical bent . |
| 2 | Only 10% were for advanced material , and another 12% for a category defined as ‘ standard ’ works . |
| 3 | Launderettes were for common people with common synthetic clothing . |
| 4 | The proposals in the accord were for general improvements in the judicial system , alterations to the electoral system to prevent fraud , decentralization for a participative democracy , and the modernization of state institutions . |
| 5 | Canadian international Forrest , 24 , faces a three-match ban after referee Ron Groves confirmed the red card was for serious foul play . |
| 6 | So in Banbury and in Newport local Unionists were assured that the deal was for one election only . |
| 7 | Dixie says the deal was for three . |
| 8 | Llanthony Warehouse was for many years a showroom and store for Western Trading Co . |
| 9 | The minimum investment was for 100 shares at a price of £1 per share , but , as the initial payment was only 50p per share , members of the public could become shareholders of British Gas for a down-payment as low as £50 . |
| 10 | Lot of shop lifting was for that reason . |
| 11 | Their search was for empirical regularity . |
| 12 | This is interesting , because we know that even in the post-exilic period a considerable proportion of the Jews was for all practical purposes polytheistic . |
| 13 | Again , anyone like Daphne Sheldrick , who wrote The Orphans of Tsavo about the wild animals she reared in Tsavo National Park , Kenya , where her husband David was for many years the highly successful warden , knows that African elephant calves are easily tamed . |
| 14 | The force 's mandate was for six month , and could be extended for a further year at most . |
| 15 | Many authors felt that the best way to structure diabetic care in general practice was for general practitioners to set up miniclinics in order to create the ‘ protected time ’ needed for assessment of a complex condition . |
| 16 | It is not always easy to balance challenges and skills even when working with a single child on a relatively straightforward task ; for these class teachers working with mixed ability groups in settings where the normal practice was for several different tasks in different curriculum areas to be undertaken simultaneously , an adequate balance between challenges and skills throughout the group had to remain an aspiration rather than an achievement . |
| 17 | A new motor car was for many a luxury that would have to wait for another day . |
| 18 | But difficult as the schism was for many workers and indeed activists to understand or justify , its far-reaching ramifications had already begun to emerge . |
| 19 | The term was for 26 years paying a one-twelfth to the Lord , save for the first six months when no claim would be made . |
| 20 | The partial answer to this dilemma was for most of Laura 's exotic ideas to be available in a special , higher priced ‘ Decorator Collection ’ . |
| 21 | This action was for wrongful dismissal but the same principle applies in a claim for damages for personal injury . |
| 22 | The data was for five-minute intervals on 14 , 15 , 16 , 19 and 20 October 1987 . |
| 23 | The scullers raced in single sculls and the racing here was also of a high standard , but there was not an outstanding single sculler and the places at stake were for quadruple and double sculls . |
| 24 | As those bills were for speedy delivery , it was necessary to put a quick drying chemical into the ink , usually by means of a spray . |
| 25 | " I always thought that gardens , " said Clara , as they progressed slowly back along the long stretch of grass , and down the steps to the lower level , " I always thought that gardens were for growing flowers in . |
| 26 | Consequently , relations between African countries and international companies were for twenty years characterized by a battle to take some degree of national control . |
| 27 | If that sounds nauseatingly juvenile , it had a certain aptness in the Fifties when marriage was for many an institution for recreating one 's childhood and centering life once more on the nursery . |
| 28 | Thus while philanthropic work was for some integral to their feminist beliefs , for others it represented merely a diversion from household cares , a sublimation of other desires , or , and this was probably the most common motivation , a socially acceptable way for both married women and their daughters to engage in purposeful work . |
| 29 | ‘ Our original proposal was for 840 acres but we 're now going to file an amended proposal for 750 acres , ’ he said . |
| 30 | On Oct. 31 a Chinese Foreign Ministry representative said that all nuclear co-operation between China and other countries was for peaceful purposes and was open to international inspection . |