Example sentences of "[n mass] [was/were] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only 10% were for advanced material , and another 12% for a category defined as ‘ standard ’ works . |
| 2 | The data was for five-minute intervals on 14 , 15 , 16 , 19 and 20 October 1987 . |
| 3 | Protected by their icy environment , northern folk were for long virtually isolated from southern influences . |
| 4 | It was hard to see what calibre the cannon were for the air was already hot enough to shimmer and blur the details of the far guns . |
| 5 | Coun Carr said only an estimated £83.29 of the £353 was for Middlesbrough Council spending plans . |
| 6 | On April 27th only 20% opposed it and 39% were for signing . |
| 7 | In Yekaterinburg , which is Mr Isakov 's constituency , 86% were for the president . |
| 8 | Fujitsu Ltd sources say that the machine being developed by Hal Computer Systems Inc in the US will be significantly more powerful than the 300 MIPS that has been reported — but 300 MIPS was for one of its Sparc chips . |
| 9 | But , poorly placed as X Corps was for any new attack , its position on either side of Fort Douaumont was so untenable that just by sitting still it was losing 230 men a day to French shellfire . |
| 10 | The balance of $44,000,000 was for a supplementary financial sector credit . |
| 11 | The common misery imposed by coal rationing could be avoided by the simple expedient of plugging in and switching on , and in the later 1940s about two-fifths of domestic electricity sales were for space heating . |
| 12 | I 'm sure that Ruth searches her heart , she , she may of made her decision lightly way back to go with Ruth er , to go with Naomi but not now , its a heart searching decision she makes , the choice before her , do I go back or do I go , do I go on , do I go back to Moah with its familiarity with all the things I am aware of or do I go on into the unknown with my mother in law and with her god Auper makes a choice and she goes back and Ruth had , Ruth says no and she makes the commitment and she says there , in verse sixteen , do not urge me to leave you or turn back from following you , for where you go I will go and where you lodge , I will lodge , your people should be my people and your god my god and its those last few words that makes all the difference , your god will be my god , I will not be a stranger there , I will not be an alien there , I will be part of your people , and the only way she could be part of Naomi 's people was for Naomi 's god to be her god , that was the thing that kept , that was , that was the common denominated should all of Naomi 's people , because they all belonged |
| 13 | Welsh Office grants received during the year totalled £5.7m of which £1.3m was for capital projects and £500,000 used for purchases . |
| 14 | In 1989–90 , central government 's direct expenditure on education amounted to just over 4 billion , of which about 70% was for universities , polytechnics and other colleges of higher education , and 18% for science . |
| 15 | Of Norman Broadbent 's City assignments 21% were for jobs paying over £100000 , and 14% of their industry business was also at this level . |
| 16 | The Moscow publishers Sovetskiy Khudozhnik [ Soviet Artist ] have published a book entitled Neizvestnyy avangard , which contains unique material on the work of early twentieth-century artists whose works were for years unknown to the public , stowed away in the store rooms of Russian provincial museums and in private collections . |
| 17 | His first distinctive works were for percussion instruments or pianos prepared with nuts and bolts inserted between the strings . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Of this $60,000,000 was for the relief of extreme poverty in Jiangxi province and $30,000,000 for repairing earthquake damage in Shanxi and Hebei provinces [ see p. 36815 for deferral of World Bank loans ] . |
| 20 | Another early war contract undertaken by Wolverton Works was for Casualty Evacuation Trains . |
| 21 | In the Crown Court over 90% were for up to a year , and 50% under six months . |
| 22 | idea , which earned him £5,800 was for the more efficient use of pumps which supply cooling water in the E22 centrifuge plant and has led to a significant saving in energy costs . |
| 23 | I knew yet another man who always possessed two pairs — one for everyday , and another pair were for formal occasions . |