Example sentences of "[was/were] also [noun] for " in BNC.

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1 The similarities between caring and mothering , shifting power relationships between mothers and daughters , and issues of ‘ cross-sex caring ’ in relation to incest taboos were also areas for exploration in her interviews .
2 There were also difficulties for staff who undertook priority work for such matters as public enquiries , and required access at times when the Registry was closed , eg at lunchtime and hours outside the normal working day .
3 There were also calls for the selection committee to comply with a ruling which says that no player out of his own club 's first team should be picked for the Pumas .
4 There were also calls for better information systems to monitor conditions .
5 There were also calls for improvement of the election law .
6 There were also calls for better enforcement by the Law Society of the current regulations , and for greater practical assistance to sole practitioners and new firms , perhaps along the lines of ‘ Best Practice ’ .
7 Yet there were also incentives for Louis IX to come to terms : Joinville reports that Louis replied to his critics , who asked why he should give away ‘ so great a part of your land , that you and your ancestors have conquered , and which has been forfeited ’ , that he had given Henry , Aquitaine , Gascony and the three dioceses ‘ to create affection between my children and his , who are cousins-germain' .
8 He then sought to reconcile this proposition with the fact that the defendants were also agents for Mr. Brant and it was in the course of that agency , not whilst acting as agents for the plaintiff , that the defendants had learned that Mr. Perot was interested in buying Vertigo .
9 The frottola and madrigal were evidently good commercial lines — though there were also madrigals for ceremonial occasions .
10 There were also penalties for brothel keepers .
11 There were also opportunities for overseas travel related to study and meeting foreigners for those attending the larger universities and colleges in the major cities .
12 There were also receipts for jewellery totalling hundreds of pounds .
13 And they were also markets for manufactured goods .
14 The stink told me that the heaps were also depositories for organic matter that did n't even have the excuse of being fertilizer .
15 Murrayfield was a hive of activity yesterday as there were also sessions for the under-21s , under-19s and under-18s .
16 There was also concern for a British journalist , Maggie O'Kane of the Guardian , and for a BBC cameraman , Brian Hulls , who were being held by Serbs after covering the airlift .
17 There was also consideration for two railways , one from Beverley and one from Bridlington , neither of which came to fruition .
18 There was also assistance for the low-paid , including farmers and fishermen , and development of the west coast region in the form of industries and roads , to create 515,000 new jobs .
19 There was also support for Paris House who was the subject of a bet of £11,000-£2,000 and cut to 5–1 .
20 Before the race , Mrs Munns judged the best turned-out horse , which she told me she was also doing for the first time .
21 The celebrations were for having pulled it off , but it was also time for many people who had been involved in the project to leave .
22 There was also pressure for a whole ministry responsible for civil aviation , but this was strongly resisted by the Air Ministry .
23 There was also pressure for some degree of autonomy from minorities in Kurdestan , Azerbaijan and Baluchistan , from Turcomans in Khorasan and from Arabic-speakers in Khuzestan .
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