Example sentences of "[verb] 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 | The time-consuming tasks of keeping families clean and fed were for the most part carried out with wholly inadequate equipment in depressing surroundings . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 … |