Example sentences of "they were for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | I had suggested in the note that , as it was then three-fifteen , rather than their breaking camp , one of them should drive back and take me to where they were for the night and back to the village next morning . |
| 4 | They were for the gentle grey shirehorse , whose death he blamed on himself . |
| 5 | In a rather odd way , 19th-century public schools were just as ideally suited for the fathers of gentlemen as they were for the sons of gentlemen . |
| 6 | He guessed they were for the morals group , since neither he nor Mrs Frizzell ever really read a book , and he put them down again , still mystified . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | The March examination passed OK but when the Canberra crews sat the October examination they all looked in amazement at the test papers ; they were for the Washington . |
| 9 | We do know that " they were for the most part young women of eighteen and upwards " in the first instance . |
| 10 | In the South , too , the scales of the law courts were tilted against them ; they were for the most part deprived of the right to vote , by various devices , notably the poll tax imposed on every voter ; and socially they were treated as lower-grade humans . |
| 11 | I 'd assumed without thinking that they were for the straddling dock cranes to run on . |
| 12 | Thus , although Pollen 's instruments were capable of greatly improving the gunnery of the Royal Navy , they were for the most part rejected because of political controversy , technical confusion , faulty tactical analysis , and financial considerations , and a much inferior and derivative system that had been put forward by Dreyer was adopted instead . |
| 13 | They were for the day after tomorrow . |
| 14 | They were for the entertainment of the workers in their lunch break er , it was n't really much of a job but er , I kept applying to go onto the floor to actually work on the aircraft but they , they would n't sort of er , I was needed too much in the receiving departments so in the end I left . |