Example sentences of "[was/were] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And developments which did not contribute to , nor necessarily seek that objective were for that reason defective . |
| 2 | The concepts therefore were for that age quite sophisticated , indeed quite sophisticated by many adults ' standards as we have seen . |
| 3 | They were for all ages , from the very young to the schoolroom young lady ; some might even be classed as adult fiction , though they were never again to be published as such . |
| 4 | In London as a whole the grammar schools ( twenty-one of which were directly maintained by the London County Council ) were for many years to admit 17–20 per cent of each age group , and the movement towards comprehensive schools was painfully slow . |
| 5 | It also coincided with the rise and consolidation of the labour movement in Britain ; and that is a story from which women were for many years absent or in which they featured very much as a minority . |
| 6 | The JS clerks of works were for many years mainly responsible for quality control of building and engineering , which is a role normally undertaken by the architect on construction projects . |
| 7 | Does the work move to them , or are cars made so expensive that people are obliged to live close to their work , as they were for much of this century ? |
| 8 | In distinction to this , morality , for the Victorians and increasingly for the generations that have come after , has been to a significant degree organised around concepts of sexuality , so that even when moral attitudes were authoritarian and restrictive , as the dominant notions were for much of the nineteenth century , sexuality had a vigorous presence . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Indeed , as mentioned above , the railways were for some years under the direct control of the sponsor ministry ( at that time the ministry of public works ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Mark , did your letter say how many tickets there were for this game ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As a result , many men who in law ranked as tenants were for most practical purposes the de facio owners . |
| 15 | These loans , at rates varying between 10 per cent and 18 per cent , were useful for helping the Crown over its successive liquidity crises , but , since none was for more than twelve months and some were for less , they failed to lighten the Crown 's burden in the long run . |
| 16 | Diplomats and diplomatic representation , it could be argued , were for these states a doubtfully necessary luxury and perhaps even a dangerous one . |
| 17 | The highest rates were for those charged with theft of or from a vehicle ( 23 per cent . |
| 18 | The only 10 year awards were for those who had worked for LASMO elsewhere — Rupert Kidd , LASMO Pakistan 's general manager , and Chris Riley , finance and administration manager . |
| 19 | The Technical schools were for those who had a technical , practical bent . |
| 20 | Explanations were for those who mattered to her . |
| 21 | If the goods delivered and accompanying invoice were for more or less than the amount recorded on the order , a correcting entry would also have to be made . |
| 22 | They stayed where they were for another minute or so , although Jack had to practically hold Ho down while they waited . |
| 23 | On European monetary union , it seems to me that it has long been the cherished aim of Conservative Governments to find a means by which we could control the value of our currency — to make it predictable in its exchange rate , as it was for much of the 19th century . |
| 24 | Drinking at a pavement café on Ben Yehuda was for each of them a way of signing off from the mission . |
| 25 | International law recognised that it was for each state to determine the conditions upon which it granted its nationality to ships , subject to there being a genuine link between the flag state and the vessel . |
| 26 | Newbery argued that a more useful approach was for each country to be looked at separately and the level of damage quantified to see how it could be most effectively and economically put right . |
| 27 | So once you knew wh how many degrees it was for each slice of the pie in your pie chart no problem to use your protractor and mark off forty eight degrees , a hundred and forty four , seventy two , thirty six |
| 28 | In fact , whereas the parallel protestant movement of evangelical revival was for all people , and the issue tended to be decisive , catholic spirituality diverged on both points . |
| 29 | The event , as ever , was for all shapes and sizes , ages and abilities . |
| 30 | They shared with Foxton the misfortune of coming into existence at the beginning of the motor car era , and whatever miscalculations may have been made in the construction , there was for all of them no way of gaining the large amounts of traffic that alone would have made them profitable . |