Example sentences of "[was/were] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goram , exceptional throughout his reintroduction to the side , was forced to muddy his tracksuit bottoms in response to the first of Amokachi 's many attacks on the break and the more Rangers pressed forward , the more gaps there were for the Belgian side to exploit from a midfield they dominated . |
| 2 | The first lots to come into the ring were for the annual lease of ewes . |
| 3 | Plain hospital beds with flock mattresses laid on interlaced wire springs were for the junior members of the staff . |
| 4 | So far as the privately rented sector was concerned , the government 's proposals were for the automatic decontrol of all dwellings with a rateable value over £40 in London and over £30 in the rest of England and Wales . |
| 5 | And the new tears were for the absolute tenderness she had seen in his eyes . |
| 6 | They were for the gentle grey shirehorse , whose death he blamed on himself . |
| 7 | These ‘ composite ’ boats were for the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company . |
| 8 | The turnout was reported to be 99.78 per cent of the electorate ; 100 per cent of total votes cast were for the successful candidates . |
| 9 | That particular luxury did not appear until M. Georges Nagelmackers had copied Mr Pullman and introduced them in 1883 , and even then they were for the rich who could afford to travel on the ‘ Orient Express ’ . |
| 10 | Sommerfrische and Kurort were for the normal bourgeois ; traditionalist France and Italy still confirm today that annual liverishness was a bourgeois institution . |
| 11 | His particular predilections when he started were for the young artists of his won age who were beginning to reject the immediate traditions of their predecessors and experiment with new formulas of expression and technique in the 1940s and 1950s . |
| 12 | ( One story , which entered his official state Department biography , has it that he told several students that his own rise to the position of ambassador showed what great opportunities there were for the young in Iran . |
| 13 | An interpreter said later : ‘ The prayers were for the Royal Family and the prince and princess themselves . |
| 14 | By 1905 , for example , of the 268 beds at the North Wing , only 99 were for the able-bodied . |
| 15 | Demands for licences grew steadily during the fourteenth century , but endowment of the religious orders never regained its earlier level , and alienations were increasingly directed to the establishment of chantries and secular institutions ; by mid-century almost as many licences were for the secular as for the religious churches , but this has more to do with declining enthusiasm for the vastly endowed monastic orders and the growing popular appeal of the mendicants who lived from alms , and not from farming extensive estates . |
| 16 | I 'd assumed without thinking that they were for the straddling dock cranes to run on . |
| 17 | As his Latin epitaph on the title page announced , Jonson Workes were for the select few , not only serious readers but also affluent and socially well-positioned readers . |
| 18 | The extent of the hidden need met by the Act was demonstrated by the fact that 93.6 per cent of pensions granted in 1912–13 were for the full amount of 5s 0d . |
| 19 | Helmets and unbelted tunics were for the despised ‘ county men ’ , ‘ those sheep-dippers up the road in the sticks ’ whom we continually used to reassert our own status by looking on them as ‘ hicksville country cousins ’ and definitely not ‘ real polises ’ . |
| 20 | These figures were for the cold season ; the second half will be much better . |
| 21 | On either side of the gangway doors were small doors on the floor level ; these were for the double purpose of allowing a hosepipe to be brought through from the line for washing out purposes , and also to allow free escape of water . |
| 22 | The fact that all the workshops in WA and at least half of those in Victoria and New South Wales were for the double bed , shows the quality of knitters involved . |
| 23 | Despite the Party programme and frequent reiteration of the line , the record in practice seemed appalling — ranging from the Russian colonists , operating under the banners of Soviet power and universal freedom ; the arbitrary and cruel behaviour of raw troops operating in alien lands and in danger , far from the watching eyes of Moscow ; the role of former Tsarist officers whose instincts were for the patriotic defence of all the territories of the former empire , without concession to local nationalism ; to the contempt of the Bolshevik ultra-Left for all forms of nationalism . |
| 24 | ‘ Initially it was for the sheer hell of it , ’ she said . |
| 25 | His secret ambition was for the Argentine ban to be lifted so he could get to England and avenge Pedro 's death by taking out the English and especially one poker-faced Guards Officer . |
| 26 | Yes , fish it was for the mental energy to face our new situation . |
| 27 | What little excitement there was for the colourful Cagliari crowd of 30,000 came from the Italian midfielder Giannini . |
| 28 | In conference with Gerald Gardiner , subsequently Lord Chancellor , who had somewhat late in the day raised his flag as a member of the Labour Party , it was decided that the best course of action was for the Labour Party to be asked to be represented by Gardiner at the Vassall Tribunal and to inform Radcliffe that it had no additional witness to come to him . |
| 29 | Charles Hernu , bombarded the conference delegates with sweet talk on how useful defence research was for the civil sector and how good they were to researchers . |
| 30 | It was a heavy fall and Rain 's first thought was for the nervous old woman who lived in the flat below . |