Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [was/were] for the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | One can only surmise that this arrangement was for the programming convenience of the television station which covered the matches . |
| 2 | Of this $60,000,000 was for the relief of extreme poverty in Jiangxi province and $30,000,000 for repairing earthquake damage in Shanxi and Hebei provinces [ see p. 36815 for deferral of World Bank loans ] . |
| 3 | Interestingly , at the time of Burgess ' model , Sneinton and Radford were still on the outskirts of the city and this housing was for the workers at the Players , clothing , and Raleigh factories . |
| 4 | The nucleus of each village was for the most part made up of the Frelimo guerillas who had fought in the liberation struggle . |
| 5 | Secretly , under layers and wads of protest , was her admission that he was right , that these things were for the best . |
| 6 | These figures were for the cold season ; the second half will be much better . |
| 7 | The trains were designed to accommodate patients in the central vehicles , those at either end were for the convenience of the staff , stores , etc. , and in the military trains , the ward or hospital cars had a pharmacy car in the centre . |
| 8 | All but two of these records were for the coast or its vicinity . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | True , not all changes were for the good . |
| 11 | Nearly all records were for the sea or the immediate vicinity of the coast . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | All records were for the coast . |
| 14 | The tribunal decided that the payment related to a standard-rated supply of services by the tenant in the course of his business because ( a ) the landlord provided consideration , and ( b ) that consideration was for the tenant doing something ( signing the lease with the repair clause ) . |