Example sentences of "[noun] were for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SE claimed that the cylinders were for an Iraqi petrochemical project and that their export had been approved by the UK 's Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) . |
| 2 | The first lots to come into the ring were for the annual lease of ewes . |
| 3 | 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 ] . |
| 4 | Founded in 1925 , the Review is in many respects a source as appropriate to this phase as the English Association and the Newbolt Committee were for the earlier period . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | An interpreter said later : ‘ The prayers were for the Royal Family and the prince and princess themselves . |
| 8 | Now the depot office the they in those days controlled what a man 's duties were for the next day and a man did n't know what he was on until about twelve o'clock one day what he was on the next day . |
| 9 | As the Vice-chairman , who was re-elected , was also deaf , the two elected leaders of the BDA were for the first time deaf . |
| 10 | Plain hospital beds with flock mattresses laid on interlaced wire springs were for the junior members of the staff . |
| 11 | His responsibilities were for a single grey pony bound for a Kuwaiti Sheikh . |
| 12 | These ‘ composite ’ boats were for the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company . |
| 13 | Secretly , under layers and wads of protest , was her admission that he was right , that these things were for the best . |
| 14 | The local transmissions of the External Service were for the many expatriates working in the country who understood little or no Swahili . |
| 15 | These figures were for the cold season ; the second half will be much better . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And the new tears were for the absolute tenderness she had seen in his eyes . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The provisional Cost Allowances for the accommodation were for a 24-bed unit 430,000 and for a 30-bed unit £500,000 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Sommerfrische and Kurort were for the normal bourgeois ; traditionalist France and Italy still confirm today that annual liverishness was a bourgeois institution . |
| 24 | of the records were for the third week of September . |
| 25 | of the records were for the last week of April and the first two of May . |
| 26 | In the modern age , institutions outside the family have been created to administer public affairs and women were for a long time expressly excluded . |
| 27 | This demand was indeed radical since women were for the first time trying to achieve some independence as persons and to exercise some power as individuals in their own right . |
| 28 | Women were for the first time identified in their own right as potential land reform beneficiaries . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | His first thoughts were for an eighteen month old child and an elderly lodger also in the house . |