Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [was/were] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secretly , under layers and wads of protest , was her admission that he was right , that these things were for the best . |
| 2 | These figures were for the cold season ; the second half will be much better . |
| 3 | All but two of these records were for the coast or its vicinity . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | True , not all changes were for the good . |
| 6 | Nearly all records were for the sea or the immediate vicinity of the coast . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | All records were for the coast . |