Example sentences of "[noun pl] were for " in BNC.
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| 1 | SE claimed that the cylinders were for an Iraqi petrochemical project and that their export had been approved by the UK 's Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) . |
| 2 | From a trade catalogue issued by Turner of Farringdon Street , London , in 1838 we get an overview of the types of coffin used at that time : thirty-three are described , of which fourteen styles were for children 's coffins only . |
| 3 | Eighty-one of the schools were for boys , ninety-five for girls , and two were mixed . |
| 4 | These schools were for children but adult education and literacy classes were also provided . |
| 5 | The Grammar schools were for the most able , bright academic pupils and were run along private school lines . |
| 6 | The Technical schools were for those who had a technical , practical bent . |
| 7 | By 1980 , 77% of new prescriptions were for the drug ( fig 1 ) . |
| 8 | Aboard the carriers were forty-eight Hurricanes and six Fulmars to be flown off , although on this occasion not all the fighters were for Malta . |
| 9 | Was that what the cars were for ? |
| 10 | And these telegrams were for , to our nearest and next of kin , telling us we were now safely home . |
| 11 | This entailed that the three subjects were for ever to be treated as three separate subjects . |
| 12 | All of these subjects were for year 9 to choose from to study for 2 years at G.C.S.E. level . |
| 13 | The lifts were for transporting patients too sick to protest to departments on higher floors . |
| 14 | Launderettes were for common people with common synthetic clothing . |
| 15 | We had to look at where the opportunities were for development in Greater York as a whole rather than looking at individual district elements , and in terms of land available , erm Mr Steel appears to have included some sites which we classify as land held in reserve , which we do n't normally count towards the land availability targets , although we do acknowledge that it is there . |
| 16 | Wigs were out of the question because of the cost , and most of the changes John asked for in the designs were for simplicity in making and comfort in wearing . |
| 17 | The perfectly kept living-rooms of Tollemarche homes were for visitors ; the basements , despite their fire hazards , were good enough for the children ; there they often slept and there , if the temperature went much below zero , they also played . |
| 18 | The dragons were for the procession , and were designed to be raised upon the shoulders of pairs of bearers . |
| 19 | The principal demands were for a 50 per cent increase in wages and pensions , a six-hour working day ( and no night-shifts ) for women , and the bringing to justice of those responsible for the deaths in Shkodër in April [ see p. 38160 ] . |
| 20 | Books were for eggheads . |
| 21 | and one of the criteria that Derek said that they would , would be supporting bids were for ones that would start at the beginning of May . |
| 22 | The two 4,000gn bids were for Runrig , the two-year-old first prizewinner from WJ&CSR Christie of Lochdochart , Crianlarich , and the reserve supreme champion Grange Zermatt from Messrs James Biggar , Grange , Castle Douglas . |
| 23 | All of the antibodies were diluted in 1% BSA , 100mM L-lysine in Tris-buffered saline containing 0.04% sodium azide , and incubations with primary antibodies were for 2h and with secondary antibodies and SA for 1h , all at room temperature . |
| 24 | Demands for licences grew steadily during the fourteenth century , but endowment of the religious orders never regained its earlier level , and alienations were increasingly directed to the establishment of chantries and secular institutions ; by mid-century almost as many licences were for the secular as for the religious churches , but this has more to do with declining enthusiasm for the vastly endowed monastic orders and the growing popular appeal of the mendicants who lived from alms , and not from farming extensive estates . |
| 25 | The director of the Victoria and Albert Museum , Elizabeth Esteve-Coll immediately followed suit , unaffected by the fact that the proceeds were for research into Aids , the condition which killed Mapplethorpe in 1989 . |
| 26 | Helmets and unbelted tunics were for the despised ‘ county men ’ , ‘ those sheep-dippers up the road in the sticks ’ whom we continually used to reassert our own status by looking on them as ‘ hicksville country cousins ’ and definitely not ‘ real polises ’ . |
| 27 | You know the egg cups , I thought the egg cups were for the conservatory here but they 're for the conservatory in Fulham . |
| 28 | The costumes were for the most part composed of homespun cloth of native dye , though now and again gay neckerchiefs — the manufacture of the south country — gave liveliness to the head ; while now and again a bright-coloured shawl was pinned across the shoulders of the women . |
| 29 | An interpreter said later : ‘ The prayers were for the Royal Family and the prince and princess themselves . |
| 30 | All the prayers were for peace and for those who were fighting — in both armies . |