Example sentences of "[was/were] for an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eleven months later the new Secretary of State said that he was equally committed to a very substantial expansion in student numbers , and stated that the government 's plans were for an increase of 50,000 by 1993 . |
| 2 | The cap they showed us was for an elephant , a massive thing . |
| 3 | The final recommendation ( the committee had divided almost equally ) was for an assembly of which two-thirds would be directly elected with one-third elected by the territorial councils of chiefs . |
| 4 | Christian preachers could declare how wrong it was for an individual to be dominated by another so as to be his legal property , and to be bought for much less than the rich would give for a racehorse . |
| 5 | The new intention was for an escort of 35 to 40 ships of the line , assembled from Toulon and Brest , to sail first to Brittany , to convoy the 20,000 men assembled there to somewhere near Glasgow , from where they were to march on Edinburgh . |
| 6 | When Joseph Parker paid his first visit to America in 1873 it was for an Alliance conference : on that occasion the delegates were presented to General Grant , the President . |
| 7 | After he had left the office his senior colleague observed with undisguised admiration how well Fred knew his district and how valuable it was for an officer to have such knowledge at his fingertips . |
| 8 | Ohly 's proposal was for an assessment by a special task force before any further substantial commitments were made in Indo-China but , coming as it did , a month after the US had made its half-a-billion-dollar commitment , it was probably too late . |
| 9 | * The pattern of differences in relation to topics was very similar to that obtained in APU surveys : boys scored up to 17 percentage points more than girls on measures and scale reading items ; the largest difference , 19 points , was for an item in which angles were to be compared . |
| 10 | The application was for an injunction to stop Mr Woodall and his partner using the name ‘ champagne ’ , pending a full trial hearing . |