Example sentences of "[n mass] 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 | Protected by their icy environment , northern folk were for long virtually isolated from southern influences . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | On April 27th only 20% opposed it and 39% were for signing . |
| 5 | In Yekaterinburg , which is Mr Isakov 's constituency , 86% were for the president . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Of Norman Broadbent 's City assignments 21% were for jobs paying over £100000 , and 14% of their industry business was also at this level . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | His first distinctive works were for percussion instruments or pianos prepared with nuts and bolts inserted between the strings . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In the Crown Court over 90% were for up to a year , and 50% under six months . |
| 12 | I knew yet another man who always possessed two pairs — one for everyday , and another pair were for formal occasions . |