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

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1 Then one of them asked : ‘ Can you tell us what the Rules of Engagement were for your task Major ? ’
2 The first lots to come into the ring were for the annual lease of ewes .
3 Erm if the if the figure were for example forty one thousand , er would you still say that there should we 'd be putting the brakes on the train on too hard ?
4 The proposals in the accord were for general improvements in the judicial system , alterations to the electoral system to prevent fraud , decentralization for a participative democracy , and the modernization of state institutions .
5 Founded in 1925 , the Review is in many respects a source as appropriate to this phase as the English Association and the Newbolt Committee were for the earlier period .
6 The scullers raced in single sculls and the racing here was also of a high standard , but there was not an outstanding single sculler and the places at stake were for quadruple and double sculls .
7 Even so , the last two years of peace were for Baldwin a time of interest , enjoyment and even influence , compared with what was to come afterwards .
8 The development plans which they produced in the first decade of independence were for the most part competent , well thought out and well presented .
9 As the Vice-chairman , who was re-elected , was also deaf , the two elected leaders of the BDA were for the first time deaf .
10 With this view , the Conservatives in the inter-war period were for small-scale government and low taxes — the less done by government , the better and cheaper .
11 The Justices of the Forest were for the most part important men who can have devoted a limited amount of time to their Forest duties .
12 Henceforth the Justices of the Forest were for the most part great barons , who often held extensive estates in or near the forests they administered .
13 However 68% of the House of Clergy surveyed said they would vote in favour , and only 66% of members in the House of Laity were for .
14 If , for example , the module were for Computer Science students then there would be a concentration on text processing , database publishing and communications .
15 In the vast majority of cases they will of course on the facts be a closed link between the nature of the trade effective between members of states and the competition that is restricted by the contested clause , this is because given that the restriction flows out in the agreement the later sets the context for former , accordingly as a simply matter of fact , restrictions of competition operating relating to the same market in which trade is affected between member of states , a restriction must be appraised in the context of the market , if the parties to the agreement or the high percent market share of the market , then a relatively minor restriction assumes greatest significance , on , firstly , if the parties hold a small share of the market then what appears obstensively be a serious restriction may turn out upon an assessment of facts to be minor or relatively insignificant , contrary to the submission of the plaintiff , the restriction of competition can be determined without a assessment of market , the court of first instance have recently held that the necessement of the market has necessary pre pre-conditioned of any judgement concerning the allegedly and competitive behaviour and your Lordship was taken to that paragraph page ninety two , just siting recently the and the present case the restrictions pleaded that paragraphs forty clements and the two twenty mason were for broadly to restrict the effects upon the insurance market , however the defendants have gone one step further and also identified other markets and sub markets in which the restrictions take immediate impact , this is logical for example in relation to the standard form agency agreement the restrictions have the most direct impact from the sub market to the provision of agencies services to names , competition is effected in this market since complete harmonization of secondary terms and trades are merely the criteria available to names when choosing an agent , however , the standard form contract also effects the wine and insurance market , the fact that the agent has unvetted powers to write any insurance which he sees fit affects the categories of insurance written within this is of course is the matter about which defendant makes complaint .
16 Most of the cases at the Sheriff Court were for assault , breach of the peace , trespassing in pursuit of game and one of shebeening ( unlicensed selling of liquor ) .
17 The local transmissions of the External Service were for the many expatriates working in the country who understood little or no Swahili .
18 Although reported that the A.A. crews had shot down a Ju88 , their claims for the day were for five Ju87s shot down , four probables and one damaged .
19 Nearly 200 were built to power irrigation pumps , and most of the rest were for light commercial vehicles .
20 Between four thousand and five thousand people took part and the demands of the rally were for a crash housing programme , a fair points system for the allocation of houses and legal control over the letting of furnished accommodation .
21 The first two weekends of the 1977 season were for Mario anyway marred by accidents : in Argentina the nose-mounted fire extinguisher exploded , and in Brazil he found himself sitting in a pool of petrol and got out of the car while it was still moving just as his cockpit went up in flames .
22 Several visits in the area were for canoeing or sailing , but with the participants usually demanding hills as well .
23 No , the ones at the front of the store were for seventy P and they were marked firmed tomatoes , the others at the back were sixty P and they did n't say firm on them so I thought well , firm probably means hard , I 'll get the , get the others , so I 'll skinned a couple of them for tea
24 Mm Oh I 've put in for one to pay the erm interest on the mortgage , which I have to do and that 's all being seen to because I 've had another letter saying can you tell me what this second loan were for and I 've put down yes , it was for windows and sent a bit of paper er , you know , that we 've paid four thousand seven hundred and something , five thousand , nine hundred and something we 've paid for them windows and I 've spent that
25 I mean , if you think about it , supposing sex were for the benefit of the species .
26 Marx and Engels ' arbiter model of the state suggested that if class forces in society were for a time evenly balanced , then the state bureaucracy and a strong political — military leader could intervene to impose stabilizing policies which were not controllable by capital , although they would be bound to maintain capitalist predominance in economic life .
27 And developments which did not contribute to , nor necessarily seek that objective were for that reason defective .
28 The elections at federal level were for 300 seats in the Federal Assembly — 150 in the Chamber of the People ( reduced from 200 ) and 150 in the Chamber of Nations .
29 The majority were for law and were greeted by applause in an assembly of the staff and students .
30 Thus in the period when Labour was still in opposition in the early part of the war — September 1939 to May 1940 — there were twenty-one by-elections , but only six Labour candidates were put up and they of course were for the previously Labour-held seats : two of these were unopposed and the other four faced candidates of fringe groups , who did not poll well .
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