Example sentences of "[was/were] for the [n mass] " in BNC.

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1 On the south wall the memorial was for the infantry regiments .
2 one were the one was for the artillery and one was for the infantry .
3 The doctor explained to her how hard it sometimes was for the sperm to coincide with the eggs ; she just had to continue to keep the Shah interested .
4 Life had to go on and music was presumably as important to ordinary people trying to survive in Berlin as it was for the people who crowded into the National Gallery in London to hear Myra Hess 's lunchtime recitals .
5 G-7 leaders agreed that " it was for the people of Yugoslavia to decide on their future " and noted that " military force and bloodshed can not lead to a lasting settlement " .
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