Example sentences of "[num] [was/were] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 By 1905 , for example , of the 268 beds at the North Wing , only 99 were for the able-bodied .
2 One was for a building which would seat 306 people as well as the choir .
3 The extent of the hidden need met by the Act was demonstrated by the fact that 93.6 per cent of pensions granted in 1912–13 were for the full amount of 5s 0d .
4 Of this , $43,000 million was for the military and the remaining $33,000 million for civil research in such areas as medicine and space .
5 A first tranche of $2,500 million was for the refinancing over the next seven years of Italian state guaranteed credits due between January 1990 and January 1991 .
6 Of this DM91,900 million was for the eastern Länder ( states ) , an increase of 6.9 per cent over 1992 ( as at July 6 , 1992 , US$1.00=DM1.513 ) .
7 The ethnic differences that emerged elsewhere in the USSR in the late 1980s were for the most part more traditional , almost ‘ tribal ’ in character , in that they sprang from antipathies between ethnic groups with different religious , linguistic and historical backgrounds and expressed themselves in the form of communal clashes rather than pressures for formal independence .
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