Example sentences of "[was/were] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the modern age , institutions outside the family have been created to administer public affairs and women were for a long time expressly excluded . |
| 2 | The provisional Cost Allowances for the accommodation were for a 24-bed unit 430,000 and for a 30-bed unit £500,000 . |
| 3 | His responsibilities were for a single grey pony bound for a Kuwaiti Sheikh . |
| 4 | The forecasts were for a 28 per cent increase between 1983 and 1993 ( although the demographic shifts noted above may reduce this ) , and indeed by 1989 the increase was already 19 per cent . |
| 5 | This does not show up in the household statistics because many of these stays were for a brief few months right at the end of life . |
| 6 | Both of them were for a free market , the introduction of Lithuania 's own currency and withdrawal of Russian troops . |
| 7 | My original thoughts were for a 3-week tour but after consideration and discussion a longer period seems preferable ; I 'm therefore thinking of 8 weeks , from mid-Feb. to mid-April , but of course if your time is limited you could return independently . |
| 8 | I remember a morning like that in Derbyshire … a morning with so much Day-Glo orange cardboard sprouting on poles from so many fields that by 11am I was near suicide — a mood that ended with the discovery that the posters were for a popular brand of fertiliser . |
| 9 | The principal demands were for a 50 per cent increase in wages and pensions , a six-hour working day ( and no night-shifts ) for women , and the bringing to justice of those responsible for the deaths in Shkodër in April [ see p. 38160 ] . |
| 10 | ‘ I am very upset because the stall was for a good cause . ’ |
| 11 | Certainly marriage was very much a practical necessity for working class girls , and the chief hope was for a good bargain . |
| 12 | Those who were libelled in the Fanzine may feel less aggrieved knowing it was for a good cause . |
| 13 | One of Orrery 's commissions , about 1712 , was for a mechanical model of the Earth–Moon–Sun system , of a type recently constructed by the clock-maker George Graham [ q.v . ] . |
| 14 | When he offered to buy her a house in Blackpool , her request was for a simple terrace house , similar to the one in which they had spent their early life together . |
| 15 | ‘ This recognition from the British radio industry was for a phenomenal range of programming — sport , specialist speech , comedy , local radio personality , local radio station , current affairs and documentary . ’ |
| 16 | The adjudicator concluded that Mr Hussain 's application was for a short-term stay and dismissed the appeal after hearing evidence from Miss Rafique that she had no intention of living in Pakistan . |
| 17 | Another of the Ryan recommendations was for a financial reporting review panel , similar to the panel operated by the Financial Reporting Council in the UK . |
| 18 | The conversion was for a technical reason — this was the third year of World War One and the dye for the paper was manufactured in Germany . |
| 19 | His great vision was for a reformed English Church to take its place in an international General Council of the protestant countries . |
| 20 | A Summit conference : The final recommendation was for a global summit to discuss international economic and financial issues raised by the Report . |
| 21 | Er I merely want to comment on the erm apparent misunderstanding on my comments on windfalls earlier on , erm it has been suggested that we we 're tightening down on windfalls , was the quote actually used , erm , there is no intention in the local plan to er ignore the er windfalls , to actually deal with them in a different way than had happened in the past , clearly if sites come forward which are windfalls which are suitable in environmental terms then the City Council will give , as P B G one requires , the appropriate consideration to those applications , what I was merely saying this morning was the the likelihood of such windfalls coming forward , and the scale was clearly going to be substantially less than had occurred in the past , and the the figure of eighty a eighty a year , which was for a five year period , which was quoted to me , erm clearly would not be representative of my expectation of the future . |
| 22 | Overall the preference was for a six hour course followed closely by the three hour course . |
| 23 | Was for a thousand erm |
| 24 | One of their demands was for a phased release of internees . |
| 25 | The search was for a better glue , not a worse one . |
| 26 | The Money Market — like Acceptance Credits and commercial paper — offered lower cost but less flexibility because credit was for a fixed term . |
| 27 | The contract was for a fixed term of five years . |
| 28 | The demand was for a state-backed campaign to educate women and girls . |
| 29 | At first this support was for a cautious continuation of the patching of the existing system . |
| 30 | Mr Mulrine said the latest application was for a single-storey extension containing eight bedrooms to be built onto the existing farmhouse , with access for drivers from the busy A68 . |