Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1980 , 77% of new prescriptions were for the drug ( fig 1 ) . |
| 2 | The dragons were for the procession , and were designed to be raised upon the shoulders of pairs of bearers . |
| 3 | They constitute an acknowledgment by the delegates , committee and officers that the Association was for the time being inadequately organised and funded for undertaking major tasks on the national scene . |
| 4 | The initial deal was for the release of two singles and a potential album deal which has yet to be finalised . ’ |
| 5 | ( One of the FPR 's main demands was for the return home of all Rwandan refugees . ) |
| 6 | In the higher price range , the most notable result was for the El Greco ‘ Disrobing of Christ ’ ( lot 309 ) , a preparatory study for the work of that subject in Toledo Cathedral , which made a new record for the artist at £1.7 million ( $3.1 ; est. £1.5–2.5 million ) . |
| 7 | The original bid was for the retention of the er , objective status in the Telford and regional travel to work area , which is the whole of the region and Bridgenorth area . |
| 8 | The third lavatory was for the use of the narrow , single-storey house that formed the end of the three-walled courtyard . |
| 9 | Although arrangements differed in detail from one place to another the usual practice was for the management to allow a preliminary meeting in works time at which the aims of the WEA could be explained and for those apprentices interested to stay behind to plan a course . |
| 10 | For a start , much of that earlier patronage was for the benefit of the patrons and not of the public . |
| 11 | The major financial effect was for the Gazette which suffered a £1.3m drop in income against the original 1992 budget . |
| 12 | You know the egg cups , I thought the egg cups were for the conservatory here but they 're for the conservatory in Fulham . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I was also careful to explain BW 's policy as regards cycling on the towpath , and I emphasised that the work was for the benefit of all users and gave Spokes members no rights whatsoever . |
| 15 | I was also careful to explain BW 's policy as regards cycling on the towpath , and emphasised that the work was for the benefit of all users and gave Spokes members no rights whatsoever . |
| 16 | Live work was for the future and would follow when Kylie felt fully ready for the demands of life on the road — and for now there were a million other business opportunities to be pursued . |
| 17 | To get round this , the plan was for the Government to ‘ lease ’ these employees to the railway at less onerous rates . |
| 18 | The plan was for the Unit to reform in the middle of this year . |
| 19 | The plan was for the financiers to place deals based on the probable impact of the column on the market and then share the profits . |
| 20 | The cutters and machinists were to remain at the club house for another twelve and eighteen months respectively but the plan was for the printers to move immediately into the new premises . |
| 21 | As its critic Richard Grove had pointed out , the original plan was for the trees to live much longer ( and become more valuable timber ) , only the Commission had badly underestimated how windy it was in the British Isles , and the Sitka spruce suffered badly from ‘ wind-blow ’ , which stressed the timber and made sure that the trees would never reach the grand dimensions they do in their native temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest . |
| 22 | His plan was for the contra leaders to set sail with their manifesto , or a version of it , to Philadelphia from Nicaragua . |
| 23 | The ceremony at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum was for the presentation of an old Spitfire that had been hauled out of an English lake and identified as belonging to 71 Squadron the first of the Eagle squadrons formed from American volunteers back in 1940 . |
| 24 | Well they were two storey buildings , we had one office which was partitioned off for us clerks and the other half was for the traffic superintendent who was responsible , directly responsible to the general manager of the Ipswich Electric Supply and Transport Departments , so erm and then we had another office adjoining that which was a store room because in those days we used to have to erm record and keep in safekeeping all lost property , no end of things we used to have but we , you know , we used to have pigeon holes and lost property that was brought in , was placed into these pigeon holes it 'd be Monday , Tuesday , Wednesday . |
| 25 | One basket was for the house ; a different basket held larger eggs , chosen to be set for hatching . |
| 26 | Morality was for the laity , whose life was dominated by the battle against mortal sin , and who therefore lived under the threat of hell and were always at risk . |
| 27 | Tremayne showed a modicum of anxiety but no sympathy , and the anxiety was for the horse . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In reminding himself that his responsibilities were for the President , he recalled the way that Mariana had looked at the old man that first day when he had met them out on the dock , the President casting for bonefish . |