Example sentences of "[pron] were for " in BNC.
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| 1 | she was for the top of the hockey team and I were for the football |
| 2 | Two March records , which were for 1972 , may have involved only one bird , as may two August records in 1973 . |
| 3 | On the subject of my aunts , I must share with you something which still makes me smile when I think back on those days of yore , which were for us children — halcyon days . |
| 4 | In 1987 , 2.16 million summonses were issued under this Administrative Default Procedure , two thirds of which were for less than £500 — there were only 1.98 million in 1983 . |
| 5 | I think that I am correct in saying that the two original high level computer languages were Cobol and Prolog , which were for developing business and general/scientific applications respectively . |
| 6 | Other old foundations which were for locational or other reasons less well suited to the changing situation , stagnated or declined . |
| 7 | Have those sexual practices which were for long condemned as " deviant " or " perverted " really become general ? |
| 8 | We located 5874 hospital records , 1217 of which were for demented patients aged 40 to 64 years at presentation ; 707 records were either lost or contained insufficient information to apply the diagnostic criteria . |
| 9 | This consists of four separate buildings : the baptistery , the cathedral , the campanile and the cemetery ( this last , the Camposanto , was badly damaged in the Second World War but is now largely rebuilt apart from the beautiful frescoes which were for the most part beyond repair ) . |
| 10 | He was looking at her as though she were for sale . |
| 11 | Here , there was no ambiguity ; no difficulty over marriage or courtship ; no women at all but the camp-followers , or the whores who were for sale , with other merchandise , from the second , vagabond camp that stood as a fringe to the first . |
| 12 | The senator had frowned , then opined that it was not just the fat who were for ever barred from the Oval Office , but even the ugly . |
| 13 | Needless to say the proposed settlement — widely publicised — drew a good deal of criticism , almost entirely from the Left who were for a variety of reasons extremely hostile to white Rhodesians . |
| 14 | Similarly the right to grant mulazemets was sometimes used as a means of showing particular honour to individual scholars or of placating those who were for some reason aggrieved . |
| 15 | ‘ Every day hundreds of people — chained , pinioned and fettered were brought to [ the sultan 's hall ] and those who were for execution were executed , those for torture tortured , and those for beating beaten . |
| 16 | Mr d'Ancona recalls : ‘ OSO started with the simple remit of cutting the umbilical cord which linked US oil companies with their established suppliers in the Gulf of Mexico , who were for the most part American . ’ |
| 17 | I wondered whether you were erm I wonder whether you were for the bullet or not ? |
| 18 | The private sector did n't know where you were for two years . |
| 19 | He sent the paintings but none were for sale . |
| 20 | at least some latitude , within the system , for personal judgement about individual special circumstances — we were for example impressed by what Debenhams told us about their practice of offering all applicants who were refused credit the opportunity of a review of their proposal by a senior manager , ; |
| 21 | Of course we thought we were for it . |
| 22 | We 'd been saying how awful it was , how sorry we were for Connie . |
| 23 | And that 's all we had there and we were for ever getting flooded out and there we we 'd all clean our shoes before going to bed at night put 'em all underneath the sideboard or whatever . |
| 24 | All spring records except one were for the Downs , but all autumn records for the coast . |
| 25 | Well , Barkingside was a big home they also have one out at Ware they also had one at Upshire but the Upshire one were for disabled children . |
| 26 | In the same way it might consider with sister Training Boards what possibilities there were for training part-time farmers and their families in non-agricultural activities that would contribute to the rural community . |
| 27 | ‘ Quite a few friends were starting families at that time and they were having real problems sorting out childcare , and I decided I 'd like to look at what opportunities there were for setting up in that field . ’ |
| 28 | I mean , he had no idea about what possibilities there were for me and he just looked at it as a very , very dodgy profession to want to go into . |
| 29 | When in the same issue the journal reviewed Why Men Forget we are reminded of just how many social melodramas there were for this film showed a Socialist spokesman being discharged from a factory and ‘ denouncing wealth in no uncertain terms ’ before inheriting wealth and marrying a society girl and finally deciding to return to the poor folk from whence he came . |
| 30 | Although there were more than 100 British nationals killed in the accident there was no provision at that time for a State with such an interest to participate , but knowing that the minister was bound to be asked by MPs in the House what arrangements there were for investigating the cause of death of so many UK citizens I telephoned my old friend Michel Vigier in paris with a formal request that we might send a UK observer . |