Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | Some were new , some were old ; some were for men , some for women ; some had baskets , some did not . |
| 3 | Some of these cheeses were eaten the day they were made , with cream and sugar , some were for almond cheesecakes , some for the fillings of covered pies called Florentines , some for spiced cheese loaves baked in stoneware porringers . |
| 4 | Half were for cancellation , a quarter for medical expenses and most of the remainder for loss or theft of belongings . |
| 5 | He insists this was for petrol expenses incurred in promoting a fund raising record . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought this was for North Yorkshire , ’ complained an old lady . |
| 7 | Though they were as a rule sparing in the use of force , this was for reasons which seem not to have included sympathy with civil disobedience . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This was for tomatoes I think the quota of tomatoes . |
| 10 | The Baldwin Fund brought in some £500,000 , but not all of this was for child refugees . |
| 11 | This was for camera footage only , all train movements being subject to normal ELR operating rules . |
| 12 | I used to think this was for safety . |
| 13 | This was for safety . |
| 14 | This was for Axel . |
| 15 | The exhibition was crowded and I felt that , really , this was for Hungarians , as though I were intruding on a private grief . |
| 16 | This was for economy 's sake you see , you could n't afford to buy shoes like people buy them now and just throw them away . |
| 17 | This was for £208 : 35. : 0d. ( a considerable sum of money for the times ) yet all of this was restituted by the end of 1633 suggesting , if nothing else , a degree of integrity . |
| 18 | 1740 A new item appears " The Compearance money is £104:12:0. this was for ffarqhuard Campbell , the Clerk . |
| 19 | 1740 A new item appears " The Compearance money is £104:12:0. this was for ffarqhuard Campbell , the Clerk . |
| 20 | This was for centuries a strong point and later a prison ; among its prisoners , during the time of the Revolutionary Wars , was Lord Elgin , he of the marbles , who was held hostage in Lourdes on his way back to England from Turkey . |
| 21 | Another was for portfolios of firms to be owned not by a pension fund but by a specialist financial or management group : Kohlberg , Kravis , Roberts or Hanson , which buy , break up and set strict financial controls for what remains ; Clayton & Dubilier or Forstmann Little , which exert direct supervision over managers ; Berkshire Hathaway , which is a more remote but patient investor . |
| 22 | In Islington 's famous Union Chapel , for example , the doors which opened into the auditorium had fixed to the wall beside them small boxes with a slit on the top ; these were for worshippers ' donations . |
| 23 | These were for fairweather people only . |
| 24 | Despite a relatively shortterm median follow up ( 5.7 years ) only three of 10 patients ( 30% ) with definite Crohn 's colitis have so far had their pouch excised , admittedly all were for fistulas , while the remaining seven have satisfactory function despite episodes of recurrent pouchitis in three . |
| 25 | In the early days of the programme , these courses all bore the label ‘ PNP ’ and many were for PNP staff only . |
| 26 | The biggest error of all was for investment ; the Treasury expected a fall in volume terms of under 1% , but in the event it fell by 12% . |
| 27 | Of the 655 ‘ leaf-spring ’ Cobras built ( including the 75 original 260s ) , only 61 were officially listed as being for European consumption , and of course not even all of those were for Britain . |
| 28 | Oh no but you see that was for cleanliness . |
| 29 | Yeah but that was for carpets , was it , i is , is , is that , do they do the floor coverings there ? |
| 30 | You could say , perhaps , that the Star Rank scheme was largely put on ice , but that was for want of a sponsor , which was always vital to the future of the scheme . |