Example sentences of "[was/were] for [art] [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were some comparatively small reductions to the Housing Benefit budget but the major savings — which ran into billions of pounds — were for the 1990s and the next century . |
| 2 | The other people in the restaurant , who might at other times have had stringent thoughts about race , or about white women publicly embracing black men ( or at least , not with such total lack of self-consciousness ) , were subdued — it could be seen from faces that showed tendencies to laugh too without reason to the demand of the occasion , which was for a total and uncritical abandon to happiness . |
| 3 | You see there , there was a er not paying for it , asking about it , the finance committee how very cold it was for the elderly and they sit in there while some get taken home and |
| 4 | His most important contract ( first with another carpenter , John Ball , and then on his own ) was for the deepening and wharfing of the Fleet ditch , an enormous task which employed 200 men , took two and a half years to finish ( 1672–4 ) , and brought him a gift of plate worth £200 from the City on its efficient completion . |
| 5 | Of this , $43,000 million was for the military and the remaining $33,000 million for civil research in such areas as medicine and space . |