Example sentences of "they were for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purpose served by the two massive exhaust cowlings is less clear , but it 's unlikely Bugatti would test them if they were for styling reasons only . |
| 2 | More fertilizer might mean more grain ( and more carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide to add to the greenhouse effect ) , but there obviously comes a point where more fertilizer does not mean a bigger yield or perhaps is not justified on cost grounds , particularly when grain prices are low , as they were for part of the 1980s . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | SINCE Indian independence in 1947 , the main question before Indian voters has been whether they were for or against the Nehru-Gandhi family . |
| 5 | Mr Smith , whose team are 6–1 outsiders for the Cup , agrees with the bookmakers in rating Liverpool even stronger favourites tonight than they were for the first meeting . |
| 6 | Although EEC policy is necessarily uniform for the Community as a whole , member governments are responsible for applying it in ways which are relevant to local problems , just as they were for identifying boundaries of their Less Favoured Areas in the first place . |
| 7 | She was , in any case , not sure how they were , or how they were for her . |
| 8 | That particular luxury did not appear until M. Georges Nagelmackers had copied Mr Pullman and introduced them in 1883 , and even then they were for the rich who could afford to travel on the ‘ Orient Express ’ . |
| 9 | I just knew there were certain places I could n't go because they were for blacks only , ’ he says . |
| 10 | I had suggested in the note that , as it was then three-fifteen , rather than their breaking camp , one of them should drive back and take me to where they were for the night and back to the village next morning . |
| 11 | They stayed where they were for another minute or so , although Jack had to practically hold Ho down while they waited . |
| 12 | They were for the gentle grey shirehorse , whose death he blamed on himself . |
| 13 | Exact patterns of change will remain a matter of controversy for historians , as they were for contemporaries , but what emerges from the inadequate farm records and welter of subjective comment by biased and often condescending outside observers is a marked contrast between the fortunes of a few well-organised and prosperous landowners and the general backwardness of their counterparts and tenants . |
| 14 | In a rather odd way , 19th-century public schools were just as ideally suited for the fathers of gentlemen as they were for the sons of gentlemen . |
| 15 | As well as needing a licence , they were for example allowed to advertise only in a very restricted way , were not allowed to employ people to canvass for loans , had to include an interest rate in loan contracts , and risked having the terms of a loan altered by a court if they were judged ‘ harsh and unconscionable ’ — interest over 48 per cent a year was taken to be excessive unless there was some evidence to the contrary . |
| 16 | He guessed they were for the morals group , since neither he nor Mrs Frizzell ever really read a book , and he put them down again , still mystified . |
| 17 | ‘ It was only a joke but the school secretary , who had a heart condition , thought they were for real and nearly died , ’ says Betty Weller . |
| 18 | I did n't think you could get grants for your hobby ; I thought they were for businesses and things like that . |
| 19 | Though if they were for young William or for herself , she could not be sure . |
| 20 | The Bioscope very much approved of the description of the movies as ‘ the drama of the masses , and went on to argue that the whole beauty of the movies was that they were for the first time providing amusement , ‘ the greatest factor in the life of.the masses ’ , to ‘ the millions ‘ who had been ‘ passed over for so many years and considered of no account ’ . |
| 21 | The March examination passed OK but when the Canberra crews sat the October examination they all looked in amazement at the test papers ; they were for the Washington . |
| 22 | The stage was set for a critical vote where members would be asked to decide whether they were for or against Reagan 's economic programme . |
| 23 | They were for dialogue and truth . |
| 24 | They were for dialogue and truth . |
| 25 | Cigarettes were placed on the table in front of you which meant that they were for everybody . |
| 26 | Important as they were for historians of the future , and as a source for scholarship generally , public records generated less political and academic controversy then than later . |
| 27 | They were for ketchup-type sauces . |
| 28 | We do know that " they were for the most part young women of eighteen and upwards " in the first instance . |
| 29 | In the South , too , the scales of the law courts were tilted against them ; they were for the most part deprived of the right to vote , by various devices , notably the poll tax imposed on every voter ; and socially they were treated as lower-grade humans . |
| 30 | Mostly they were for acts of right and grace , for example the granting of overdue wages or expenses , but a significant minority concerned complaints against royal and other officers . |