Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | An interpreter said later : ‘ The prayers were for the Royal Family and the prince and princess themselves . |
| 4 | Plain hospital beds with flock mattresses laid on interlaced wire springs were for the junior members of the staff . |
| 5 | These ‘ composite ’ boats were for the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company . |
| 6 | These figures were for the cold season ; the second half will be much better . |
| 7 | And the new tears were for the absolute tenderness she had seen in his eyes . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |