Example sentences of "[was/were] for [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plain hospital beds with flock mattresses laid on interlaced wire springs were for the junior members of the staff . |
| 2 | The local transmissions of the External Service were for the many expatriates working in the country who understood little or no Swahili . |
| 3 | The turnout was reported to be 99.78 per cent of the electorate ; 100 per cent of total votes cast were for the successful candidates . |
| 4 | His particular predilections when he started were for the young artists of his won age who were beginning to reject the immediate traditions of their predecessors and experiment with new formulas of expression and technique in the 1940s and 1950s . |
| 5 | Smith himself was for a few years a tutor at Christ Church , but in 1795 he resigned his studentship to become incumbent of Daventry ( a Christ Church living ) , returning to Christ Church as a canon in 1807 . |
| 6 | The Plan B mentioned last year was for the All Blacks to make only a fleeting visit to Australia , thus opening the way for the South Africans to make a short tour to Australia and then for the All Blacks to go to South Africa . |
| 7 | Civil servants were keen to discern how widespread public support was for the new measures , though they were aware , as they euphemistically put it , that there would be ‘ cause for complaint ’ with the government if the bill were blocked . |
| 8 | To pass beyond it is to cross the threshold into another dimension which , for all its pragmatic gifts to the West over the centuries , remains as mysteriously little-known to us now as it was for the first explorers . |
| 9 | Boyle spoke yesterday of how delighted he was for the two athletes and the satisfaction their golden double gave him . |
| 10 | Watercolour ‘ is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century ’ , reports RICHARD S TAYLOR , as he sets out to paint a timeworn French townscape . |
| 11 | The spontaneity of watercolour painting is , I believe , most conducive to recording this type of scene , where fleeting effects of moving light can be captured with a few quick washes and blots , and is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century . |
| 12 | Watercolour ‘ is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century ’ , reports RICHARD S TAYLOR , as he sets out to paint a timeworn French townscape . |
| 13 | The spontaneity of watercolour painting is , I believe , most conducive to recording this type of scene , where fleeting effects of moving light can be captured with a few quick washes and blots , and is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century . |
| 14 | It has been noted that it was for the same crimes that Klaus Barbie was sentenced by the courts in Lyon to life imprisonment . |
| 15 | The typical pattern was for the local parties to meet only once a year in 1915 and 1916 , to re-elect their officers for another year ; agents who had enlisted were kept on the books by retaining half their normal pay , to compensate them for loss of earnings in the national interest and to keep them available for a resumption of partisanship . |
| 16 | Even worse , the Conservative plan was for the elected councillors for these authorities to be replaced by nominees from the second-tier borough councils , which in London involved the replacement of an elected Labour majority by an indirectly elected Conservative majority . |
| 17 | This curiosity , this quest for knowledge , which typified the attitude of many physics students , was for the never-ending mysteries of the universe : |
| 18 | His first-class debut was for the Minor Counties against Oxford University in 1939 , but it was not until 1947 that he first played for Surrey , as an aggressive fast-medium bowler , who also liked to give the ball a good whack when batting . |
| 19 | His first run there was for the Scottish Students in the match against their English counterparts at Myreside the day before the Calcutta Cup match in January . |
| 20 | The last time was for the three months before she encountered Jarvis in Fawley Road . |
| 21 | That was for the older girls , and they frightened us to death with tales of what this Fanny-Annie , as they said called her , had er had said to them , and how rude she was , terrible . |
| 22 | One recommendation was for the older pupils to be divided into four occupational groups : engineering ; commerce ; domestic work ; and industries for which no vocational instruction was necessary . |