Example sentences of "[verb] [was/were] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two items in the struggle for the liberty of the Church to which Anselm was committed were for him not negotiable either by himself or the successor of the pope who had declared lay investiture and clerical homage to be irreconcilable with the law of the Church . |
| 2 | What the advancing Germans occupied were for the most part clusters of shell-holes , where isolated groups of men lived and slept and died defending their ‘ position ’ with grenade and pick-helve . |
| 3 | Those whom they encountered were for the most part leading precarious lives ; they lacked the leisure , the mental energy , even the vocabulary , for speculation about the great issues of heaven and hell , death and judgement . |
| 4 | Such French capital as Poland managed to secure was for specific projects like the new port at Gdynia — which was encouraged by the French to discomfort the Germans as much as to aid the Poles . |
| 5 | George Headley and Learie Constantine were the giants of the early Test years who did most to establish the team ; Garfield Sobers was for twenty years the supreme all-rounder of the game 's history ; Clive Lloyd devised the concept of a quartet of pace bowlers who would carry all relentlessly before them . |
| 6 | All the phone calls they received were for him , and Gina never had any mail . |
| 7 | Two-thirds of all reservations received were for new books . |
| 8 | While everyone agreed the changes in living standards since the film was made were for the better , there was some nostalgia for farming as it was when they were young . |
| 9 | Sentence of death was passed on 8 convicts at the Old Bailey , 4 of whom were executed on 15 Feb. : ‘ One of those who suffered was for robbing a farmer 's boy of sixpence . ’ |
| 10 | So on 13 and 14 March the best that could be done was for him to give Harwell full details and let them get on with it themselves ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 11 | Everything he had done was for this final purpose , " that I might dwell among them " ( Exodus 29:43–46 ) . |
| 12 | Everything he had ever done was for the woman he could not forget . |
| 13 | ‘ The first day 's threshing I done was for a man by the name of Rogers , Harry Rogers . |
| 14 | The lease negotiated was for twenty years at a rental of £20,000 subject to possible increases up to a maximum of £22,000 . |
| 15 | The first play they mounted was for Alan and his family — to celebrate the completion of the pageant . |
| 16 | The data prepared was for directories such as Crockford 's Clerical Directory and the OUP General Catalogue . |
| 17 | The only payment I received was for travelling expenses from COHSE . |
| 18 | He had demanded exorbitant fees for his speaking engagements and billed the Socialist Labor Party for theatre tickets and corsages which he claimed were for Eleanor . |
| 19 | All that was needed was for someone to take Rowland 's ascetic vision/version of soul fanaticism and commandeer it for political ends . |
| 20 | What was needed was for the Government to spend much more money , in a more caring fashion . |
| 21 | What was needed was for us to get together with an arbitrator . |
| 22 | All that was needed was for one kind of film to do well at the box-office and a new Hollywood format would be established . |
| 23 | Perhaps , as Ho said later , all that was needed was for the French to pronounce one word : independence ; but on both sides this was the most fraught and emotional issue . |
| 24 | Much of the cider produced was for local consumption , with farmers bringing in their cartloads of apples for processing . |
| 25 | The only way in which it could have been avoided was for de Gaulle to change his style of leadership . |
| 26 | The time-consuming tasks of keeping families clean and fed were for the most part carried out with wholly inadequate equipment in depressing surroundings . |
| 27 | In Scotland the pattern followed was for Regional Councils and constituent Districts . |
| 28 | What followed was for Charlotte a demeaning and ultimately frustrating experience . |
| 29 | The other bearers took the traditional view that the right thing to do was for Yussuf to get rid of her and find another one ; but for reasons known only to himself Yussuf was reluctant to do this . |
| 30 | No informants provided any information about proportions of students taking up optional courses : the only student numbers provided were for compulsory courses , and not all of these gave their numbers . |