Example sentences of "they [was/were] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were for the gentle grey shirehorse , whose death he blamed on himself . |
| 2 | Mr Smith , whose team are 6–1 outsiders for the Cup , agrees with the bookmakers in rating Liverpool even stronger favourites tonight than they were for the first meeting . |
| 3 | The Bioscope very much approved of the description of the movies as ‘ the drama of the masses , and went on to argue that the whole beauty of the movies was that they were for the first time providing amusement , ‘ the greatest factor in the life of.the masses ’ , to ‘ the millions ‘ who had been ‘ passed over for so many years and considered of no account ’ . |
| 4 | That particular luxury did not appear until M. Georges Nagelmackers had copied Mr Pullman and introduced them in 1883 , and even then they were for the rich who could afford to travel on the ‘ Orient Express ’ . |
| 5 | I 'd assumed without thinking that they were for the straddling dock cranes to run on . |
| 6 | Both of them were for a free market , the introduction of Lithuania 's own currency and withdrawal of Russian troops . |
| 7 | One of them was for no particular party . |