Example sentences of "[noun pl] were for [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lifts were for transporting patients too sick to protest to departments on higher floors . |
| 2 | The celebrations were for having pulled it off , but it was also time for many people who had been involved in the project to leave . |
| 3 | In his book , Saturdays were for racing , betting and boozing — nothing else and he rarely strayed beyond the local corner pub . |
| 4 | The higher success rates were for providing column headings in a table , around 85 per cent for supplying " thousands ' and " hundreds " given " tens " and " units " . |
| 5 | Other suggestions were for campaigning and . |
| 6 | Could you explain for the record what your reasons were for arriving at that conclusion ? |
| 7 | Sundays were for sitting silently with a bible in front of you . |
| 8 | Friday afternoons were for easing up and winding down . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've never been one for doctors , and hospitals were for visiting other people , ’ he said . |
| 10 | I WAS surprised to read in the article by Harry Mead ( Echo January 17 ) and your editorial ( January 20 ) where , after a careful scrutiny of the present troubles in Northern Ireland , both of your suggested conclusions were for accepting the defeatist attitude of the greater good subordinating itself to the prevalent evil . |
| 11 | The enemy prisoners and hurt could be left to find their way back to Roxburgh as best they could , stripped of their arms , armour and anything else worth having — although some of the mosstroopers were for slaying them out of hand . |