Example sentences of "were [noun] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few years later there were proposals for a National Curriculum in England and Wales under the law — a law which would provide , according to the government , ‘ a framework not a straitjacket ’ . |
| 2 | There were plans for the younger children to join Watcyn Wyn 's private academy ( for ministerial candidates and others ) at Ammanford where the Welsh preacher-bard Gwili ( the Revd John Jenkins , later Principal of the Baptist Theological College at Banger and Archdruid of the Gorsedd of the Welsh National Eisteddfod ) was a tutor . |
| 3 | Earlier this year there were calls for a public inquiry into the Government 's use of statistics and constraints on research , from the social statistics section of the RSS , from the Association of Social Research Organisations and from the Social Research Association . |
| 4 | At the local level , too , there were calls for the maximum amount of latitude in self-administration . |
| 5 | In other words , the body plan of existing vertebrates is readily understood as being derived from a set of structures which , in a distant ancestor , were adaptations for a particular way of life . |
| 6 | Still , there were opportunities for the enterprising . |
| 7 | A very small minority of students remained for a fourth year and , having successfully negotiated a third year examination hurdle , were candidates for an unclassified B.Ed degree of the University of Birmingham , and carried with them our hopes for a future graduate profession . |
| 8 | It was done on courses where there were demands for a uniform surface . ’ |
| 9 | Thus in Jaca there were allotments for the poor labourers and no agrarian destitute class ; around Saragossa the labourers had enforced a customary eight-hour day and worked in their free hours on their own plots ; but on the great estates of dry Aragon labour conditions could only be matched in Andalusia . |
| 10 | More than half the fleet were syndicates-in-waiting for the great America 's Cup circus which begins next March in San Diego . |
| 11 | Their efforts were compensation for an earlier breakdown in discipline ( verbal only ) which permitted Strett to kick the first of his two penalty goals . |
| 12 | But those were controversies for a new decade . |
| 13 | The annual feast when the ‘ men only ’ members wearing blue sashes and white gloves marched with a band to the church for a service followed by a dull dinner in the Board inn clubroom , then in the afternoon there were sports for the whole village . |
| 14 | ‘ After I had been at the Bedford Institution for a few years there were changes for the better . |
| 15 | If there were problems for the disabled they could be ironed out . |
| 16 | Mr Travers , who drew his figures from public expenditure White Papers , said the sectors that enjoyed the biggest rises were education for the under-fives ( up nearly 90 per cent ) and children with special needs , both favourite Labour targets . |
| 17 | It accepted that while there were arguments for a full scale review , the priority had to progress on an alteration which as quickly as possible , established the principle of a Greater York new settlement and progress on the greenbelt local plan . |
| 18 | The wind freshened from astern off Rudha Reidh and we just managed to beat a south westerly gale into Loch Ewe where we were weatherbound for the next two days . |
| 19 | Like the frottole they were music for a wide public and , as with the frottole , the printing-presses multiplied their popularity by producing them in alternative forms . |
| 20 | These observations differ from earlier findings in which scid mice were host for the same TCR -β transgene . |
| 21 | Prices were £4.99 for the conventional handle , £7.08 for the extension and £20.37 for the ratchet ‘ T ’ handle . |
| 22 | ‘ People thought we were idiots for a long time , ’ remembers Kelly . |
| 23 | The relative attributable risks for Maori children compared with non-Maori children were 57% for the higher rate of maternal smoking and 22% for the higher rate of bed sharing . |
| 24 | Social welfare payments were increased , as were benefits for the long-term unemployed , supplementary benefits , child benefit and benefits for those caring full-time for elderly relatives . |
| 25 | BP Technicians were runners-up for the second year running in the Wytch Farm annual five-a-side soccer tournament . |