Example sentences of "[noun pl] was for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The highest success rate obtained for items on the relationship between metric and Imperial units was for Example 48 . |
| 2 | In the 1970s , the prevailing demand among political activists and their academic sympathizers was for freedom first and education later . |
| 3 | One of the welfare feminists ' main demands was for family endowment ( later called family allowances ) . |
| 4 | One of their demands was for a phased release of internees . |
| 5 | ( One of the FPR 's main demands was for the return home of all Rwandan refugees . ) |
| 6 | This is interesting , because we know that even in the post-exilic period a considerable proportion of the Jews was for all practical purposes polytheistic . |
| 7 | The carefully worked-out plan of the military plotters was for as swift a takeover as possible ; if , however , the ideal was a classic pronunciamiento along the lines of 1923 , General Mola was not alone in appreciating that times had changed and that opposition would have to be overcome . |
| 8 | The most urgent need of the mid-1960s was for teachers , and the Secretary of State in a speech to the annual conference of the National Union of Teachers earlier in April 1965 , outlined new policies . |
| 9 | On Oct. 31 a Chinese Foreign Ministry representative said that all nuclear co-operation between China and other countries was for peaceful purposes and was open to international inspection . |
| 10 | And of course you your mangles was for your a and your turnips for your Winter fodder . |
| 11 | Another use of ivory initiated by Late Pleistocene hunting bands was for figurines . |
| 12 | The only contract for endorsing a product I obtained in those days was for Churchman 's cigarettes . ’ |
| 13 | His second great contribution was the functional method in anthropology , which despite its defects was for long a valuable associational mode of approach to the study of human behaviour and social institutions . |
| 14 | Henceforth socialist organisation in the universities was for many years weakened by division between ‘ socialist ’ — i.e. Communist-controlled or influenced-societies and Labour Clubs supporting the Labour Party . |
| 15 | The struggle between these two classes was for Marx the key to understanding modern society and its likely future , which he envisaged as the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism by the proletariat leading ultimately to a classless communist society . |
| 16 | And most of those were anomalies , such as consolation prizes to Julie Andrews ( Mary Poppins , 1964 ) for not being cast in the screen version of My Fair Lady ; and to John Wayne ( True Grit , 1969 ) , whose only other nomination in forty years was for a war movie ( Sands of Iwo Jima , 1949 ) . |
| 17 | When Eglantine Jebb launched the Save The Children Fund in May nineteen nineteen , one of her aims was for the fund to work for its own extinction . |
| 18 | It fermented you see the cattle was for it . |
| 19 | Three hundred and eight pounds was for the ladies open , four hundred and twenty for the outing to , two hundred and twenty six had already been paid for the coach , plus all the prizes . |
| 20 | So er the forty pounds was for the update of the license to erm er an I B M compatible . |
| 21 | For most of the time the ‘ Big Bird ’ preferred to sacrifice the flat-out pace of his team-mates for accuracy and control , taking wickets by making the ball swing and cut , and so in Tests was for some years used as first or second change bowler . |
| 22 | Instead he went on to tell them that the shortest time they kept pupils was for two years but that usually they tried to move people back into mainstream at the time for transfer to middle/upper school . |
| 23 | Production for wholesale supply to co-operative retail stores was for virtually all practical purposes incidental to the Consumers ' Co-operation and had little separate existence . |
| 24 | On the other hand , the largest single allocation in virtually all the Partnerships was for social schemes , which were usually concerned with leisure projects or with providing services for the disadvantaged . |
| 25 | A young man once told us , following a talk on sex and relationships , that the reason he fondled his fiancée 's breasts was for her pleasure and not his . |
| 26 | He believed that they could so perfectly fit this classification that one of the functions of leys was for ritual or teaching purposes . |
| 27 | The first new project he mentioned in his letters was for a ballet to be danced to the spoken word . |
| 28 | And she has double ones was for bigger ones . |
| 29 | There can be little doubt that the main , if not only purpose of these civil defences was for protection . |
| 30 | Oh as I sa the part-time job we used to get , two shillings a week and he used to give us tuppence for ourselves the two shillings was for our parents , and the tuppence was supposed to be our pocket money , but er when we 'd finished on a Saturday night if , if there were any stale cakes we 'd all get a bag of stale cakes each you used to make a terrific fuss of those on a Sunday . |