Example sentences of "[verb] [was/were] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the advancing Germans occupied were for the most part clusters of shell-holes , where isolated groups of men lived and slept and died defending their ‘ position ’ with grenade and pick-helve . |
| 2 | Those whom they encountered were for the most part leading precarious lives ; they lacked the leisure , the mental energy , even the vocabulary , for speculation about the great issues of heaven and hell , death and judgement . |
| 3 | While everyone agreed the changes in living standards since the film was made were for the better , there was some nostalgia for farming as it was when they were young . |
| 4 | Everything he had ever done was for the woman he could not forget . |
| 5 | What was needed was for the Government to spend much more money , in a more caring fashion . |
| 6 | Perhaps , as Ho said later , all that was needed was for the French to pronounce one word : independence ; but on both sides this was the most fraught and emotional issue . |
| 7 | The time-consuming tasks of keeping families clean and fed were for the most part carried out with wholly inadequate equipment in depressing surroundings . |
| 8 | His particular predilections when he started were for the young artists of his won age who were beginning to reject the immediate traditions of their predecessors and experiment with new formulas of expression and technique in the 1940s and 1950s . |
| 9 | All it needed was for the envelope to be stuck down . |
| 10 | The last thing she needed was for the plane to go without her . |
| 11 | Little damage had been done , all it needed was for the cargo to be reassembled , but , while several tourists were rushing energetically around attempting to do this , the drivers of the carts had taken time off to chat . |
| 12 | The turnout was reported to be 99.78 per cent of the electorate ; 100 per cent of total votes cast were for the successful candidates . |
| 13 | It might seem that so artificial a superiority was certain to prove as transient as the hegemonies that it had replaced , although those in whose hands power lay were for the most part undaunted by the new challenges to Britain 's position that they sensed … |
| 14 | It was a tradition that avoided any real contemplation of the root causes of German unease ; their preference for ‘ action ’ , rested secure in the knowledge that everything they did was for the good of the nation , sanctioned by law and sanctioned by the German people . |
| 15 | When I was a bit older , I thought he was probably a thief and that the bag he carried was for the loot . ’ |
| 16 | All that remained was for the Lord Chancellor by statutory instrument to appoint a day for s9 to come into effect . |
| 17 | At this stage Hitler 's plans were still fluid , but the last thing he wanted was for the useful Danzig problem to be solved . |
| 18 | The last thing they wanted was for the Americans to know they were about to learn their secrets . |
| 19 | The last thing she wanted was for the local press to find out that she had a personal interest in finding Angy 's killer . |
| 20 | Why they found them striking was for the stylistician to explain . |