Example sentences of "this [was/were] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only national figures quoted on this were for 1939–40 but these showed 48% and 24% respectively . |
| 2 | She followed him up the large curved staircase and decided that even if this was for one night only , she would be happy . |
| 3 | But this was for two flats . |
| 4 | erm it 's very interesting that in the Old Testament there 's no legislation about homelessness at all , which indicates it was n't a problem , and I suspect that this was for two reasons . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't know whether this was a fund-raising ploy or whether this was for real , ’ O'Boyle said , ‘ but I thought it was for real at the time . ’ |
| 6 | Sometimes they stressed the usefulness to their own careers of studying a science degree , and this was for some the determining factor in choosing between science and arts . |
| 7 | to represent , to represent , this was for voluntary services . |
| 8 | I was called to the administration block of the hospital and later went to register the death , and to make an appointment with an undertaker — this was for ten o'clock the next morning . |
| 9 | In the 19th century and into the 20th there were two Methodist chapels in the village and this was for those of the Primitive Methodist persuasion . |