Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought we were on for charades . |
| 2 | MAI Systems Corp , the Irvine , California maker of small business computers that just filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection ( CI No 2,147 ) , listed $26.1m in assets and $145.0m in liabilities ; Brooke Group Ltd , which is controlled by MAI chairman Bennett LeBow , owns 82.3% of MAI 's voting securities ; the largest unsecured creditor listed in the filing was Chemical Trust Co. of California , trustee for $40m of 11.75% senior subordinated debentures ; the obligations listed for most of the other creditors were mostly for $4m or less . |
| 3 | The argument is not very logical but the notes were enough for John to decide that the family origins must , after all , have been French . |
| 4 | Victory at the Donington event and other impressive results were enough for Huberts to secure his signature with a brave promise of a factory bike for the future . |
| 5 | They were only for coaches or they could do to ride as well ? ’ |
| 6 | The first best clothes were only for Sunday and when visitors came . |
| 7 | Your mother used to phone me , although trunk calls in those days were only for emergencies . |
| 8 | At the far end of the room , marooned on a dais in splendid isolation , sat those fellows of the college who were in for lunch that day . |
| 9 | With break for We 'd start we 'd do the cattle feed the cattle in the morning and then we were in for breakfast and then er be out then and er dinner then was usually about half past twelve and you started again on at two . |
| 10 | With a foreboding which Harriet had experienced more than once in her life , something told her that they were in for trouble . |
| 11 | There was no rest for the wicked as John Gribbin told New Scientist 's readers that the results of a Chinese study of the alignment of the planets meant we were in for years of terrible weather . |
| 12 | The remaining fighters , which were down for maintenance and could not be made airworthy in time , were wrecked when a hangar door blew down on top of them . |
| 13 | They were away for hours . |
| 14 | The days of immediate response and speedy marches were over for Charles with such a complex and expanding realm to govern ; two years passed before he invaded the Avar lands in retribution . |
| 15 | Conservative group leader Tony Richmond accused finance committee chair Jan Taylor of saying the council would have set a higher budget if it were not for government spending constraints . |
| 16 | This death of Solomon reissues would be understandable if it were not for treatment given by EMI to other pianists . |
| 17 | Lord Templeman said that such matters were not for judges ‘ who are not qualified to listen ’ but for the Minister , for Members of Parliament , and ultimately for the electorate . |
| 18 | Country house visiting , which had been common in the eighteenth century and Regency when everyone liked to have their taste admired , became infrequent as even the greatest houses closed their gates to visitors , persuaded that the sanctities of ‘ home ’ were not for exhibition to the public eye . |
| 19 | But , she told herself sternly , she was nothing but a foolish girl , men the like of Craig Grenfell were not for Hari Morgan . |
| 20 | The New York-based human rights organization Asia Watch issued a report on Sept. 1 claiming that political prisoners were being used as forced labour in prison factories producing for export in Liaoning Province , and rejecting the Chinese government 's claim that prison-made products were not for export . |
| 21 | If it were not for Section 8 of the Contempt of Court Act , we might be able to make reforms more rationally on the basis of , at least , a minimal sample of the recorded deliberations of informed and unidentified jurors . |
| 22 | The key demands of the 1989 movement were not for democracy or an end to corruption . |
| 23 | The key demands of the 1989 movement were not for democracy or an end to corruption . |
| 24 | The mammoth catalogue raisonné of Magritte 's work would almost certainly not have come into existence if it were not for John ( d. 1973 ) and Dominique de Menil . |
| 25 | It must in the first place be said that women in the past were not for example doctors or politicians , so it is hardly surprising that they should not have held public office in the church . |
| 26 | More straightforward were the comments recorded by Leonora Eyles of women in the early 1920s who declared that they would not mind married life so much if it were not for bedtime , or the anecdote related by a birth control pioneer to a 1930 conference on the provision of birth control information by public health authorities : |
| 27 | In the War in Heaven not all the angels were whole-heartedly for God or for Lucifer . |
| 28 | The mature Battle Brothers — the giant knights of the Imperium , whose attention a cadet must not disturb — were bound on a crusade , the details of which were hardly for cadets to enquire about . |
| 29 | Other varieties were made on farms in small quantities and were usually for home consumption only , but the resurgence of interest in farmhouse foods coupled with milk quotas that forced farmers to look for ways of using their surplus milk , has brought about a revolution in British cheesemaking , which is all to the good for the cheese eating public . |
| 30 | His preferences were always for medals and engraved gems , and miniatures by artists such as Giulio Clovio , who painted the celebrated ‘ Farnese Hours ’ for him . |