Example sentences of "[pron] were for " in BNC.
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| 31 | ( One story , which entered his official state Department biography , has it that he told several students that his own rise to the position of ambassador showed what great opportunities there were for the young in Iran . |
| 32 | Mark , did your letter say how many tickets there were for this game ? |
| 33 | Leith mentally shook herself to join in the conversation , realising that her mother had been speaking of the wonderful opportunities there were for world-wide travelling these days . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | Yes , I wanted to emphasise the way some men feel constrain before , not because I want to suggest it 's now becoming a problem for men and we should be worrying about them , but because you asked what prospects there were for doing something about it and I think if something 's to be done about it , and it 's a problem of everyone devising new standards of behaviour , it 's very important that quite large numbers of men should be prepared to play a part in trying to work out what these standards should be , and there is quite substantial interest in trying to do that , both at the level of the teaching staff at the university and at the level of the undergraduates . |
| 36 | The purpose served by the two massive exhaust cowlings is less clear , but it 's unlikely Bugatti would test them if they were for styling reasons only . |
| 37 | More fertilizer might mean more grain ( and more carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide to add to the greenhouse effect ) , but there obviously comes a point where more fertilizer does not mean a bigger yield or perhaps is not justified on cost grounds , particularly when grain prices are low , as they were for part of the 1980s . |
| 38 | Does the work move to them , or are cars made so expensive that people are obliged to live close to their work , as they were for much of this century ? |
| 39 | SINCE Indian independence in 1947 , the main question before Indian voters has been whether they were for or against the Nehru-Gandhi family . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | Although EEC policy is necessarily uniform for the Community as a whole , member governments are responsible for applying it in ways which are relevant to local problems , just as they were for identifying boundaries of their Less Favoured Areas in the first place . |
| 42 | She was , in any case , not sure how they were , or how they were for her . |
| 43 | 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 ’ . |
| 44 | I just knew there were certain places I could n't go because they were for blacks only , ’ he says . |
| 45 | I had suggested in the note that , as it was then three-fifteen , rather than their breaking camp , one of them should drive back and take me to where they were for the night and back to the village next morning . |
| 46 | They stayed where they were for another minute or so , although Jack had to practically hold Ho down while they waited . |
| 47 | They were for the gentle grey shirehorse , whose death he blamed on himself . |
| 48 | Exact patterns of change will remain a matter of controversy for historians , as they were for contemporaries , but what emerges from the inadequate farm records and welter of subjective comment by biased and often condescending outside observers is a marked contrast between the fortunes of a few well-organised and prosperous landowners and the general backwardness of their counterparts and tenants . |
| 49 | In a rather odd way , 19th-century public schools were just as ideally suited for the fathers of gentlemen as they were for the sons of gentlemen . |
| 50 | As well as needing a licence , they were for example allowed to advertise only in a very restricted way , were not allowed to employ people to canvass for loans , had to include an interest rate in loan contracts , and risked having the terms of a loan altered by a court if they were judged ‘ harsh and unconscionable ’ — interest over 48 per cent a year was taken to be excessive unless there was some evidence to the contrary . |
| 51 | He guessed they were for the morals group , since neither he nor Mrs Frizzell ever really read a book , and he put them down again , still mystified . |
| 52 | ‘ It was only a joke but the school secretary , who had a heart condition , thought they were for real and nearly died , ’ says Betty Weller . |
| 53 | I did n't think you could get grants for your hobby ; I thought they were for businesses and things like that . |
| 54 | Though if they were for young William or for herself , she could not be sure . |
| 55 | 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 ’ . |
| 56 | The March examination passed OK but when the Canberra crews sat the October examination they all looked in amazement at the test papers ; they were for the Washington . |
| 57 | The stage was set for a critical vote where members would be asked to decide whether they were for or against Reagan 's economic programme . |
| 58 | They were for dialogue and truth . |
| 59 | They were for dialogue and truth . |
| 60 | Cigarettes were placed on the table in front of you which meant that they were for everybody . |