Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [was/were] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 George Headley and Learie Constantine were the giants of the early Test years who did most to establish the team ; Garfield Sobers was for twenty years the supreme all-rounder of the game 's history ; Clive Lloyd devised the concept of a quartet of pace bowlers who would carry all relentlessly before them .
2 Two-thirds of all reservations received were for new books .
3 The lease negotiated was for twenty years at a rental of £20,000 subject to possible increases up to a maximum of £22,000 .
4 In Scotland the pattern followed was for Regional Councils and constituent Districts .
5 No informants provided any information about proportions of students taking up optional courses : the only student numbers provided were for compulsory courses , and not all of these gave their numbers .
6 Much of the cider produced was for local consumption , with farmers bringing in their cartloads of apples for processing .
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