Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] be for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two-thirds of all reservations received were for new books . |
| 2 | The lease negotiated was for twenty years at a rental of £20,000 subject to possible increases up to a maximum of £22,000 . |
| 3 | In Scotland the pattern followed was for Regional Councils and constituent Districts . |
| 4 | Whereas the original demand had been for actual ships , the Crown began in the 1590s to ask for money instead . |
| 5 | Aware that Madcap Agnew 's name was scarcely mentioned in the Hall , that the Lodge had been for many years a forbidden place , and that her father 's heart still quailed to reflect on the terrors he had suffered as a child , Louisa had not dared to let her reflections on this unhappy history reach far enough . |
| 6 | " Yes , " said Clara , beginning to understand the nature of her mother 's satisfaction ; the lack of telephone of Mrs Hanney had been for some years a subject for discourse in a vein of amazed contempt . |