Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] for [art] " 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 | The Grammar schools were for the most able , bright academic pupils and were run along private school lines . |
| 3 | By 1980 , 77% of new prescriptions were for the drug ( fig 1 ) . |
| 4 | The dragons were for the procession , and were designed to be raised upon the shoulders of pairs of bearers . |
| 5 | The principal demands were for a 50 per cent increase in wages and pensions , a six-hour working day ( and no night-shifts ) for women , and the bringing to justice of those responsible for the deaths in Shkodër in April [ see p. 38160 ] . |
| 6 | One of their demands was for a phased release of internees . |
| 7 | ( One of the FPR 's main demands was for the return home of all Rwandan refugees . ) |
| 8 | Demands for licences grew steadily during the fourteenth century , but endowment of the religious orders never regained its earlier level , and alienations were increasingly directed to the establishment of chantries and secular institutions ; by mid-century almost as many licences were for the secular as for the religious churches , but this has more to do with declining enthusiasm for the vastly endowed monastic orders and the growing popular appeal of the mendicants who lived from alms , and not from farming extensive estates . |
| 9 | Helmets and unbelted tunics were for the despised ‘ county men ’ , ‘ those sheep-dippers up the road in the sticks ’ whom we continually used to reassert our own status by looking on them as ‘ hicksville country cousins ’ and definitely not ‘ real polises ’ . |
| 10 | You know the egg cups , I thought the egg cups were for the conservatory here but they 're for the conservatory in Fulham . |
| 11 | The costumes were for the most part composed of homespun cloth of native dye , though now and again gay neckerchiefs — the manufacture of the south country — gave liveliness to the head ; while now and again a bright-coloured shawl was pinned across the shoulders of the women . |
| 12 | An interpreter said later : ‘ The prayers were for the Royal Family and the prince and princess themselves . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Their days and nights were spent together in a large but gloomy chamber , reached by a winding staircase ; and their requests to take the air in the gardens were for the most part ignored . |
| 15 | Plain hospital beds with flock mattresses laid on interlaced wire springs were for the junior members of the staff . |
| 16 | The other seats were for a couple who did n't know their way to this hall and decided to follow his car . |
| 17 | Danish Christianity went back only to his grandfather Harald Bluetooth , and according to Adam of Bremen Christians were for a time persecuted by Swegen Forkbeard . |
| 18 | In recent weeks our Moscow correspondent could have reported on why the voters in Lithuania had rejected Lansbergis and what the implications were for the prospects of democracy in Russia as well as Lithuania . |
| 19 | The exceptions were for the square where performance in the two tasks was about the same and for the rhombus where " diamond " was accepted as a response to the naming task . |
| 20 | His responsibilities were for a single grey pony bound for a Kuwaiti Sheikh . |
| 21 | In reminding himself that his responsibilities were for the President , he recalled the way that Mariana had looked at the old man that first day when he had met them out on the dock , the President casting for bonefish . |
| 22 | These ‘ composite ’ boats were for the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company . |
| 23 | And most of those were anomalies , such as consolation prizes to Julie Andrews ( Mary Poppins , 1964 ) for not being cast in the screen version of My Fair Lady ; and to John Wayne ( True Grit , 1969 ) , whose only other nomination in forty years was for a war movie ( Sands of Iwo Jima , 1949 ) . |
| 24 | True , not all changes were for the good . |
| 25 | But expensive as these things were for a king of a small country , they were not the crippling drain on his purse that genuine warfare would have been . |
| 26 | Secretly , under layers and wads of protest , was her admission that he was right , that these things were for the best . |
| 27 | Taxpayers ' priorities were for the Revenue to get things right first time , and for problems , where they arise , to be resolved quickly . |
| 28 | These figures were for the cold season ; the second half will be much better . |
| 29 | Postmarks were for the most part no further north than the Midlands . |
| 30 | 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 . |