Example sentences of "[was/were] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes she dared to wonder at the causes for this way of life , for she could see that it did not represent a normal attitude towards society , though it was so deeply bred in her that all aberrations from it were for the rest of her life to seem to her perverse : but when , occasionally , she glimpsed some faint light of causation , she recoiled from it and shut her eyes in horror , preferring the darkness to such bitter illumination . |
| 2 | By 1980 , 77% of new prescriptions were for the drug ( fig 1 ) . |
| 3 | All spring records except one were for the Downs , but all autumn records for the coast . |
| 4 | It later transpired that all but one of these were for the Bulgarian A team . |
| 5 | The purpose of the study is to identify how the policy was implemented , and what its consequences were for the curriculum , pupils ' experience of school science and teachers ' professional situation . |
| 6 | They were for the day after tomorrow . |
| 7 | I had suggested in the note that , as it was then three-fifteen , rather than their breaking camp , one of them should drive back and take me to where they were for the night and back to the village next morning . |
| 8 | In a rather odd way , 19th-century public schools were just as ideally suited for the fathers of gentlemen as they were for the sons of gentlemen . |
| 9 | ‘ Really , and here I thought trains were for the public . ’ |
| 10 | Ruth guessed that the seating arrangements were for the benefit of whoever might be watching their departure , and that they would not prevail . |
| 11 | I mean , if you think about it , supposing sex were for the benefit of the species . |
| 12 | It was less clear what their ultimate intentions were for the company . |
| 13 | The March examination passed OK but when the Canberra crews sat the October examination they all looked in amazement at the test papers ; they were for the Washington . |
| 14 | It was hard to see what calibre the cannon were for the air was already hot enough to shimmer and blur the details of the far guns . |
| 15 | The others were for the nass taibin , the really well-to-do . |
| 16 | Half of them , the ones with wooden grilles , were for the women . |
| 17 | They were for the entertainment of the workers in their lunch break er , it was n't really much of a job but er , I kept applying to go onto the floor to actually work on the aircraft but they , they would n't sort of er , I was needed too much in the receiving departments so in the end I left . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Nearly all records were for the sea or the immediate vicinity of the coast . |
| 21 | You know the egg cups , I thought the egg cups were for the conservatory here but they 're for the conservatory in Fulham . |
| 22 | ‘ A ’ were with dressable wounds for the medical wards , ‘ B ’ were for the theatre , as they had wounds needing operative treatment , ‘ C ’ were for as much morphia as we could give them for a quiet inevitable death , ‘ D ’ were corpses . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Ordinary arrangements for working the line were for the time suspended . |
| 26 | The dragons were for the procession , and were designed to be raised upon the shoulders of pairs of bearers . |
| 27 | she was for the top of the hockey team and I were for the football |
| 28 | The earliest uses of ‘ Diakon ’ were for the injection moulding of television implosion guards and telephone handsets and dialling rings . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The trains were designed to accommodate patients in the central vehicles , those at either end were for the convenience of the staff , stores , etc. , and in the military trains , the ward or hospital cars had a pharmacy car in the centre . |