Example sentences of "[conj] [det] [was/were] for " in BNC.
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1 | Erm er that that was for a B B C computer . |
2 | But they said that that was for us and we said the garages , it 's sort of run down now and no use in trying to build it up again . |
3 | Something the Wild Geese used to say — the Irish soldiers who had fled Ireland after that big battle at the end of the seventeenth century when they were dying on foreign battlefields they used to say : ‘ Would that this were for Ireland . ’ |
4 | Dad did n't speak to Mum on the phone , and he did n't see her , knowing that this was for the best in the long run . |
5 | There were times when it was a strain , but you had in the front of your mind that this was for your friend , and that deepened the friendship . ’ |
6 | The new version claimed that this was for reasons of efficiency rather than a political move , although Vagnorius had expressed concern about former communist links and obstruction of policy . |
7 | erm it 's very interesting that in the Old Testament there 's no legislation about homelessness at all , which indicates it was n't a problem , and I suspect that this was for two reasons . |
8 | There was only one option left and that was for me to talk directly to Albert Spanswick , the Chairman of the TUC Health Services Committee . |
9 | And that was for a very good reason . |
10 | And in that time I really only ever had one proper job and that was for two weeks . |
11 | You had heard that there was one , Holloway , and that was for you . |
12 | Only in one respect was any real money spent on Doctor Who , and that was for the TARDIS set in Episode One , the cost of which was spread out anyway throughout the rest of the season . |
13 | And that was for your horses , you see ? |
14 | And that was for er marijuana . |
15 | The pay was fifteen shillings a day then , and that was for the horse , cart and man . |
16 | And the door pit is about eighteen inches of steel and that was for them to puncture the thing , to puncture their whisky , little barrels you see . |
17 | Thank you , three twenty and that was for number eight four one , thank you . |
18 | The counselling development worker , Fiona McRae , adds : ‘ When we started there was only one other agency offering counselling that was completely free , and that was for the whole of Edinburgh . |
19 | The worker paid his contribution and that was for own benefit . |
20 | And he could n't do it , because , the pair of them , I mean , that was , that business was supporting his mother as well and between them , after they 'd paid for the petrol , they were taking in less than a hundred pounds a week and that was for the two of them . |
21 | and that was for that , then I had a letter back to say that we were having , there was too much money coming in a week for me to draw unemployment and then they , then a few days later I had this double page letter a big one that says you are entitled to no prescription help , X amount of pounds after erm eighty pounds per glasses you are responsible for the first eighty pound , we say that you can afford to pay that , so much on your teeth , if you 're visiting somebody in prison then you exceed a certain amount of mileage you can only get it if you exceed more than twenty five pound incurring , then I thought oh blow it , forget it , and I never done it , that all come to then , that 's why I wanted a ten of your wage , wage slips you remember now ? |
22 | well he was in Stuart and that was for |
23 | And that was for them going just for the day . |
24 | And that was for the |
25 | These loans , at rates varying between 10 per cent and 18 per cent , were useful for helping the Crown over its successive liquidity crises , but , since none was for more than twelve months and some were for less , they failed to lighten the Crown 's burden in the long run . |
26 | In the 19th century and into the 20th there were two Methodist chapels in the village and this was for those of the Primitive Methodist persuasion . |
27 | Sometimes they stressed the usefulness to their own careers of studying a science degree , and this was for some the determining factor in choosing between science and arts . |
28 | One relation in the database was for paragraphs , and another was for a semantic net that included the book 's outline . |
29 | She followed him up the large curved staircase and decided that even if this was for one night only , she would be happy . |
30 | In the early days of the programme , these courses all bore the label ‘ PNP ’ and many were for PNP staff only . |