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

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1 Gladstone , Cobden and Bright were for it .
2 Rose and Mary were for once showing a united front and refused to leave the kitchen because they did n't quite like the way the young women from the town who had come to be waitresses were poking and prying into their cupboards with their noses in the air .
3 As his Latin epitaph on the title page announced , Jonson Workes were for the select few , not only serious readers but also affluent and socially well-positioned readers .
4 The US State Department responded by reiterating its rejection of any conditions for the release of hostages , and by emphasizing that US forces deployed in Saudi Arabia were for defensive purposes .
5 He concluded that the questions and comments from Gary and Aggi were for the most part simply those necessary to conduct the bartering and maintain their cover .
6 Sommerfrische and Kurort were for the normal bourgeois ; traditionalist France and Italy still confirm today that annual liverishness was a bourgeois institution .
7 For all the fears of a Polish revolt , it is worth emphasising just how moderate and tractable the Poles of Prussia were for most of the nineteenth century : they did not rise up in 1815 , nor in 1848 , nor in 1863 , nor during the Franco-Prussian Wars , nor even during the 1914–18 war .
8 So the rather heavy , stately movements of 2001 : A Space Odyssey to which the effects team of Kubrick himself , Wally Veevers , Douglas Trumbull , Con Pederson and Tom Howard were for the most part limited — except in the ‘ Stargate ’ section — by their simple , mechanical system ( no electronics , no computer for motion control or graphics ) were apt enough and perhaps fast enough .
9 The fact that all the workshops in WA and at least half of those in Victoria and New South Wales were for the double bed , shows the quality of knitters involved .
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