Example sentences of "were for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the modern age , institutions outside the family have been created to administer public affairs and women were for a long time expressly excluded . |
| 2 | The provisional Cost Allowances for the accommodation were for a 24-bed unit 430,000 and for a 30-bed unit £500,000 . |
| 3 | His responsibilities were for a single grey pony bound for a Kuwaiti Sheikh . |
| 4 | The forecasts were for a 28 per cent increase between 1983 and 1993 ( although the demographic shifts noted above may reduce this ) , and indeed by 1989 the increase was already 19 per cent . |
| 5 | This does not show up in the household statistics because many of these stays were for a brief few months right at the end of life . |
| 6 | Both of them were for a free market , the introduction of Lithuania 's own currency and withdrawal of Russian troops . |
| 7 | My original thoughts were for a 3-week tour but after consideration and discussion a longer period seems preferable ; I 'm therefore thinking of 8 weeks , from mid-Feb. to mid-April , but of course if your time is limited you could return independently . |
| 8 | I remember a morning like that in Derbyshire … a morning with so much Day-Glo orange cardboard sprouting on poles from so many fields that by 11am I was near suicide — a mood that ended with the discovery that the posters were for a popular brand of fertiliser . |
| 9 | The principal demands were for a 50 per cent increase in wages and pensions , a six-hour working day ( and no night-shifts ) for women , and the bringing to justice of those responsible for the deaths in Shkodër in April [ see p. 38160 ] . |
| 10 | Goram , exceptional throughout his reintroduction to the side , was forced to muddy his tracksuit bottoms in response to the first of Amokachi 's many attacks on the break and the more Rangers pressed forward , the more gaps there were for the Belgian side to exploit from a midfield they dominated . |
| 11 | While everyone agreed the changes in living standards since the film was made were for the better , there was some nostalgia for farming as it was when they were young . |
| 12 | ‘ Some were for the better but a lot were for worse . |
| 13 | The first lots to come into the ring were for the annual lease of ewes . |
| 14 | Plain hospital beds with flock mattresses laid on interlaced wire springs were for the junior members of the staff . |
| 15 | The local transmissions of the External Service were for the many expatriates working in the country who understood little or no Swahili . |
| 16 | There were some comparatively small reductions to the Housing Benefit budget but the major savings — which ran into billions of pounds — were for the 1990s and the next century . |
| 17 | So far as the privately rented sector was concerned , the government 's proposals were for the automatic decontrol of all dwellings with a rateable value over £40 in London and over £30 in the rest of England and Wales . |
| 18 | And the new tears were for the absolute tenderness she had seen in his eyes . |
| 19 | They were for the gentle grey shirehorse , whose death he blamed on himself . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | All this depended on the fact that the Romans were for the first time in the law of succession experiencing an ‘ open ’ system . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | This demand was indeed radical since women were for the first time trying to achieve some independence as persons and to exercise some power as individuals in their own right . |
| 24 | Indeed , restaurants , cafes and licensed premises which sell liquor for consumption on the premises ( e.g. pubs and wine bars ) were for the first time was the 1987 Use Classes Order brought within a stated class . |
| 25 | As the Vice-chairman , who was re-elected , was also deaf , the two elected leaders of the BDA were for the first time deaf . |
| 26 | Women were for the first time identified in their own right as potential land reform beneficiaries . |
| 27 | These ‘ composite ’ boats were for the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | Sommerfrische and Kurort were for the normal bourgeois ; traditionalist France and Italy still confirm today that annual liverishness was a bourgeois institution . |