Example sentences of "[noun] were [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The equivalent wage for the same ratings sailing out of the north east coast were £pound10 for Britishers and £pound6 for Chinamen , out of the Bristol Channel and London £pound9 and £pound6.10s and out of Liverpool £pound8.10s and £pound6 .
2 The only sour note for Arsenal were cautions for Lee Dixon , John Jensen , Parlour and Tony Adams and a facial injury to Limpar .
3 ‘ The Corosini were goldsmiths for centuries . ’
4 Marriage and inheritance were matters for bargaining and negotiation , no longer open to inspired manoeuvres .
5 By the time I had joined the BBC in 1969 I was three stone overweight , I drank a bottle of scotch a day and thought muesli and high fibre were feed for cattle .
6 The next few days were agony for Constance , as she waited for the letter to arrive .
7 The compositions were sonatas for keyboard and violin K.6 and K.7 ( published as op .
8 Admission rates were £4 for adults , £concessionary , with further concessionary rates of £10 for a family ( 2+2 ) and a ‘ bring a pensioner ’ scheme whereby anyone bringing a pensioner ( or a child ) could get in at the concessionary rate .
9 Er all of these men had moderate or severe symptoms , and all of these patients were candidates for surgery .
10 The Chief Officer said quite clearly last er last time that the decisions were decisions for members and members came up with a view last time that we should not remove that whole time crew from St Albans which was the one firm decision that was made at the last meeting and what Councillor is now suggesting that we should take out those twenty eight whole time fire fighters and then try and give us ten back if we 're lucky .
11 So eleventh-century courts were centres for ceremony , business , education ; Charlemagne would have sympathized with all of these .
12 Someone else got up to reply , with some indignation , and said that private individuals transported goods and passengers much more cheaply that the government could manage ; government garages were scrap-heaps for vehicles which any private individual could repair in half an hour .
13 Among 6-month-olds ( fig 1 ) , estimated seroprevalences among children who received IPV were 96% for type 1 , 100% for type 2 , and 92% for type 3 , compared with 89% ( p < 0.01 ) , 99% ( p=NS ) , and 76% ( p < 0.01 ) for types 1 , 2 , and 3 , respectively , among children who received OPV .
14 At one end were basins for water-cures .
15 Other notable falls last year were 58% for Benjamin Leader , 49% for William Shayer and 52% for George Smith .
16 It was agreed that some of the concerns raised in the survey were matters for education authorities to address — for example in terms of resourcing , staffing and staff development .
17 Managers came and went at an alarming rate ; there was Board Room take-over ; gates began to dwindle and the Palace were candidates for relegation from well before Christmas .
18 As she stepped into the humming elevator , Chesarynth realized that the other doors were holograms for security .
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