Example sentences of "[noun pl] were for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Grammar schools were for the most able , bright academic pupils and were run along private school lines . |
| 2 | By 1980 , 77% of new prescriptions were for the drug ( fig 1 ) . |
| 3 | The dragons were for the procession , and were designed to be raised upon the shoulders of pairs of bearers . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | You know the egg cups , I thought the egg cups were for the conservatory here but they 're for the conservatory in Fulham . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | An interpreter said later : ‘ The prayers were for the Royal Family and the prince and princess themselves . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Plain hospital beds with flock mattresses laid on interlaced wire springs were for the junior members of the staff . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | These ‘ composite ’ boats were for the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company . |
| 16 | True , not all changes were for the good . |
| 17 | Secretly , under layers and wads of protest , was her admission that he was right , that these things were for the best . |
| 18 | Taxpayers ' priorities were for the Revenue to get things right first time , and for problems , where they arise , to be resolved quickly . |
| 19 | These figures were for the cold season ; the second half will be much better . |
| 20 | Postmarks were for the most part no further north than the Midlands . |
| 21 | When the syllabus was referred to , it was the content objectives to which everyone referred ; the process objectives were for the most part ignored . |
| 22 | The petitions were for the introduction of French and German as main subjects ; the former was admittedly already in the syllabus , but was taught on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons , not iii the main timetable . |
| 23 | ‘ Really , and here I thought trains were for the public . ’ |
| 24 | Among the Zuwaya history was not a specialized occupation ; the relations were for the most part those of patrilineal descent . |
| 25 | Ruth guessed that the seating arrangements were for the benefit of whoever might be watching their departure , and that they would not prevail . |
| 26 | And the new tears were for the absolute tenderness she had seen in his eyes . |
| 27 | Other plans were for the expansion of community care facilities , including support for families caring for a mentally ill relative , and more hostels and day centres . |
| 28 | So far as the privately rented sector was concerned , the government 's proposals were for the automatic decontrol of all dwellings with a rateable value over £40 in London and over £30 in the rest of England and Wales . |
| 29 | Once academics and scientists kept in touch by letter and ‘ corresponding members ’ of learned societies were for the most part never seen . |
| 30 | There were leaders about it in all the newspapers , societies were for the defence of Humpty and Big Ted , and I actually heard two young City whizzkids reminiscing about the Playschool clock on the tube . |