Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] for [art] [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 | ( One of the FPR 's main demands was for the return home of all Rwandan refugees . ) |
| 4 | You know the egg cups , I thought the egg cups were for the conservatory here but they 're for the conservatory in Fulham . |
| 5 | The other seats were for a couple who did n't know their way to this hall and decided to follow his car . |
| 6 | Danish Christianity went back only to his grandfather Harald Bluetooth , and according to Adam of Bremen Christians were for a time persecuted by Swegen Forkbeard . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And most of those were anomalies , such as consolation prizes to Julie Andrews ( Mary Poppins , 1964 ) for not being cast in the screen version of My Fair Lady ; and to John Wayne ( True Grit , 1969 ) , whose only other nomination in forty years was for a war movie ( Sands of Iwo Jima , 1949 ) . |
| 11 | True , not all changes were for the good . |
| 12 | But expensive as these things were for a king of a small country , they were not the crippling drain on his purse that genuine warfare would have been . |
| 13 | Taxpayers ' priorities were for the Revenue to get things right first time , and for problems , where they arise , to be resolved quickly . |
| 14 | When Eglantine Jebb launched the Save The Children Fund in May nineteen nineteen , one of her aims was for the fund to work for its own extinction . |
| 15 | So er the forty pounds was for the update of the license to erm er an I B M compatible . |
| 16 | Three hundred and eight pounds was for the ladies open , four hundred and twenty for the outing to , two hundred and twenty six had already been paid for the coach , plus all the prizes . |
| 17 | The petitions were for the introduction of French and German as main subjects ; the former was admittedly already in the syllabus , but was taught on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons , not iii the main timetable . |
| 18 | ‘ Really , and here I thought trains were for the public . ’ |
| 19 | Ruth guessed that the seating arrangements were for the benefit of whoever might be watching their departure , and that they would not prevail . |
| 20 | Other plans were for the expansion of community care facilities , including support for families caring for a mentally ill relative , and more hostels and day centres . |
| 21 | Eleven months later the new Secretary of State said that he was equally committed to a very substantial expansion in student numbers , and stated that the government 's plans were for an increase of 50,000 by 1993 . |
| 22 | There were leaders about it in all the newspapers , societies were for the defence of Humpty and Big Ted , and I actually heard two young City whizzkids reminiscing about the Playschool clock on the tube . |
| 23 | The best results were for the Ford Motor and the Dana corporations which predicted 45 per cent of the total variance of returns . |
| 24 | We believed that flowers were for the living , and Uncle used to often quote some lines of poetry : |
| 25 | In schools , the most notable growth has been in the use of 81200 Work Experience 1 — enrolments for this module have increased by over 200% ; other substantial increases were for the Communications and Mathematics modules . |
| 26 | Our client 's initial requirements were for a loan of eighty six thousand pounds being sixty thousand pounds for the business and a further twenty six thousand pounds on house mortgage to cover any monies the bank had required our client to provide overdraught facilities were also required . |
| 27 | The purpose of the study is to identify how the policy was implemented , and what its consequences were for the curriculum , pupils ' experience of school science and teachers ' professional situation . |
| 28 | One of his successors , Lord Fisher , explained that gaiters were for the restriction of blood circulation and possibly accounted for the number of swollen heads among their wearers , but he added that , ‘ I myself find them a very comfortable kind of bondage ’ . |
| 29 | Nearly all records were for the sea or the immediate vicinity of the coast . |
| 30 | All records were for the coast , except for one shot from a party of six at Weir Wood Reservoir on 18 March 1962 and a total of five at Arlington Reservoir between 1973 and 1975 . |