Example sentences of "were for a [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 ] . |