Example sentences of "[adj] were for [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The only national figures quoted on this were for 1939–40 but these showed 48% and 24% respectively . |
| 2 | These loans , at rates varying between 10 per cent and 18 per cent , were useful for helping the Crown over its successive liquidity crises , but , since none was for more than twelve months and some were for less , they failed to lighten the Crown 's burden in the long run . |
| 3 | The Science Citation Index also indicates that the outside world has not been developing ideas form German scientists : 2 per cent of citations in 1975 were for German papers compared with 4 per cent for the UK and 3 per cent from Japan . |
| 4 | These were for higher wages , reduced differentials , greater workplace control and more shopfloor participation in bargaining . |
| 5 | There were three failures ( 30% ) in the Crohn 's group ( all three were for pelvic sepsis and fistula ) and a further three failures ( 30% ) in the indeterminate colitis group ( one for fistula , one for recurrent pouchitis , and one because of incapacitating diarrhoea ) compared with nine failures ( 15% ) in the ulcerative colitis patients ( six for ischaemia , two for recurrent pouchitis , and one for poor functional results ) ( relative risk 2.03 ( 96% CI 0.81 to 5.10 ) ) . |
| 6 | Of the courses listed , 5 were for English teachers , 15 were for Modern Language teachers , 1 for Primary teachers , 4 for a mixed group , 1 on ‘ Language Awareness ’ , 1 on ‘ Examining ’ , 1 on ‘ English Language ’ and 6 uninterpretable . |
| 7 | 11 were for people with learning difficulty or mental handicap , and 4 were for elderly people with a mental impairment , 3 for elderly people who were physically frail , I for children and 1 for physically handicapped adults . |
| 8 | Only 87,300 grants were paid last year and 42,000 of those were for minor repairs or facilities for disabled people . |
| 9 | Maureen was telling me today that erm he erm too , she took it to the garage and there was two bills laying on the table , one were for two hundred and sixty odd and were four hundred and seventy some odd |
| 10 | In central Dorset , of the nearly fifty parishes with Acts of Enclosure , nine were for open-field arable alone , thirty include huge areas of downland and ten are solely concerned with downland . |
| 11 | Of the courses listed , 5 were for English teachers , 15 were for Modern Language teachers , 1 for Primary teachers , 4 for a mixed group , 1 on ‘ Language Awareness ’ , 1 on ‘ Examining ’ , 1 on ‘ English Language ’ and 6 uninterpretable . |
| 12 | Of these , more than 450 were for small , inshore fishing boats called bancas . |
| 13 | Two were for fulminant colitis , in one case Crohn 's disease was subsequently identified in the proctectomy specimen and in the other Crohn 's was recognised only in the ileal reservoir after excision . |